the united nations responded by deploying a peacekeeping force into south lebanon. known as unifil part of this force was made up of norwegian troops i had this and that for the first time. as part as as a norwegian sewn into. visiting the uni field forces in lebanon. i came with friends through israel then i'll skip but i wish he had been to dog i said that it would not stick in east. it in most developed a dome and all the hard to get a foot if i'm sitting in that office just didn't get it but i. did offer shifting yes long enough to get instilling in it he didn't help nor they call to be a good approximately one thousand soldiers and the course and security of those

soldiers was a very important call sort to us either to move on the of the first call to this list what it is that it's working because contacts need that p.l.o. in that context missing in the. minister of foreign affairs. was the deputy minister states if the situation very close that the time though of this of though that's the death think if. what makes as we in the this. is. when it comes to. the internet it was below you only been two years be the lead in all. of us have also seen. some of it and we need all the little colonel bishop here as well. and then we can the left.

mr weld philistine confucius. jewish. media. let me shake. norway was more supportive. than many of the others and i think. any of the other european states under there are several reasons one of the most important. and the mention the labor party and the rich and trade union there is for this state for all our socialist experiment. almost social democratic state like the one we have in no way.

in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was a common bond of socialist ideology between noise labor party and its namesake in israel. one of the key players in this special relationship was a prominent labor party member of norway's parliament johann you're going holst mr holst most of. the political level to me out of. the. ministry of the feds. he came to be a roots. in july i think it was seventy nine he made it. and they offer a lot of hot then why did the whole group. very pleasant did that mr holst's had very close contact. and that it's that aspect of

mr whole spade even more interesting to me sort of. interested in order it was it is really already called things he said. that in the us a little prick just so awful to me i don't mean i mean it doesn't conflict that almost just before and in. the sultry halls on the. it was our own losses of trauma they let you can go and i was with one. you know mozart upward to him and moved to the future no look now. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the shah of iran fled into exile. israel lost an hour and a major oil supplier. the united states asked no way to guarantee to sell its north sea oil to israel concerned about repercussions for its un troops in lebanon norway scented stapler mats hands long to seek assurances from arafat mr arafat's.

defecting on the phone if you split seconds he said i've been having. such an obvious and good t. today he said on one condition when i need this secret back channel three said you provided. yasser arafat wanted the norwegians to act as intermediary between himself and israel and the regions in the region government were just shocked to hear the message coming back from our office so probably lived in seventy nine. every year from there not you know mentioned try to step up a secret actual between the funeral and israel but israel absolutely not willing at all to listen to anything other than the region could come up with from

are up on appeal. in one nine hundred eighty two the p.l.o. lost its base in lebanon. palestinian fighters were forced to depart following the israeli invasion of lebanon three months earlier. a u.s. brokered deal that led to arafat and his entourage moving to tunisia it was. an imitation from a to my previous foreign minister and three million. and myself defense minister. when the nine going to. new year's eve

without effort in tunis. out of all stirs. help him getting. the mean p.l.o. and part. time. a member of the assembly of this list and. turn out to be. a strong interest in the solar system and nothing for trying to contribute to normalization of. the relationship between then and. to help with his charm offensive arafat turned to senior p.l.o. member exams the time to act as his make go between are not thought i point the

doctor. he came to visit me because i said this from. very good impression of him i believe that the p.l.o. has been to give it just achievement of our suffering people i believe that is the most needed. and then we should meet in a world to pharaoh there was the source of the national assembly meeting in portugal and then there were some shooting. in the lobby. and. this. is some sort of lay where he'd been killed by a lone gunman who pumped five shots into his chest it has never been clearly verified the assassination loves the tawi but the motive appears to be because he

was talking to the israelis on arafat's behalf got the call so that we. wish. he did so we take against the stream in face of great objection and danger. our offense continued a double game on the one hand seeking discreet diplomatic channels to israel via the norwegians while on the other hand publicly maintaining a revolutionary rhetoric. was going to trigger was. you want to get the wal-mart. the year the hoodoo dish to stall to but that would be good in the ne. that can be death cool if.

you know. and don't walk and them it is there's been no man who's been there when he's there can do you any. never been there i was in the condo but why didn't the one about to work that. out of it. can you be mad what this to me that. is bad must and i'm still to it twenty years on stoltenberg will not betray the secrecy of conversations between the p.l.o. and israel we tried. to prepare for and they were. both in the pier this. labor party started their. very much to try before home where the people from the israeli labor party that you were contacting mr shimon peres or other have promised never to.

you know i only. part. is not coming from what they say from all the things i didn't say. in the mid eighty's the labor party in israel formed a coalition government with the. party should mean i gave a nod and a wink for likud member mushy amaranth to hold secret talks with palestinian politician is allowed husseini in jerusalem. discussion centered on p.l.o. recognition of israel autonomy on the west bank and a federal relationship with jordan. the so-called arab husseini plan became a model for the subsequent oslo accords years later. that it was soon to offer by the outbreak of the first intifada. the

palestinian uprising which took both israel and the p.l.o. by surprise. and. was the site of the intifada shall be a ruler after. having been all the day after was there a lot of promises. to you well when demand. and when that many. yes the thought of palestinian boys throwing stones against israel tanks. this david and goliath contest put the israelis under great pressure time is now of the essence. in an exclusive for al-jazeera the norwegian foreign ministry has released highly confidential documents that include

a nine hundred eighty eight and delivered letter from foreign minister stoltenberg to israeli foreign minister peres stoltenberg wrote that only by relieving itself of the burden of the occupied territories can israel succeed and prosper. without the broke with and. that there were there miles all the critics up through for through and through through and through. come with then you're going to play whatever you want. the minute the many and they have been for this they need the i'm that zeph the most fun. that can feel welcome again and yes a lot of cute and you know cool national guard out of it they know what they know about a very that's good to do the live in of a state i'm not doubting. sophie the i'm not dumb or not that's just

being. you know the wife at the other one of them look at the how do you i'll meet in with you know how to be in the livia's to hire people who will move the saudi if you know the field while they're shut up. for of the philistine me cept i want united nations editions thank you ditto for it and i think the international take. please again it's intermission in here which. robin in which the mad only a lady can and will caught on well more than one of them and to have here come all of them have had the weather value family if they in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight sweden mediated between the p.l.o. and the united states a public meeting was held in stockholm. but only when you know parliament

if you. had accepted it at its highest bit and you wish it. is that day in his speech to the un general assembly in geneva in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight arafat formally condemned terrorism. with a club geneive. the muslim my job should america nor. the most savvy don't you be genie or can be obama. the man you. feel like it's me in the you or in the. blink.

shout of people do. for. unknown. for. as for thirty days. i don't. mean. yesterday in no uncertain database. and yet. i repeat for the record. i repeat for the record. and absolutely you know it. all for me is it is. all the fault of these artists. including and arafat had accepted the israeli state to start negotiations.

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for the record in december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight p.l.o. leader yasser arafat known to his colleagues. and publicly renounced violence. over the years norway had discreetly been talking to the p.l.o. . with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters yunus for the long group subtleties or they are both just in to talk to very little of this crew on the journey. to school.

they will be. the first time. the reason for a minister visit the p.l.o. it was definitely a successful visit because it was a breakthrough proof that the same foreign minister told of. the father of the prime minister on the way today. on a mission to arafat's in tunis in one nine hundred eighty nine. i thought it very hard. part and no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and the israel. from public scrutiny. it's the first time in a big splendid whole he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using

a lot of each of the research institution was the idea of mystery of our offer which. during that. they had plowed or decided which research institute in no way up they they i agree a dot dot would be a good cover and they also agreed that. no it should minister of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also i read in the document. fofo was a think tank in all slue founded by the trade unions and connected to noise labor party it was chosen by the norwegian foreign minister as the perfect host for secret talks between israelis and palestinians it's direct. he would go on to become a key figure in the negotiations that led to the oslo accords. with funding from the norwegian foreign ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started

to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. and so forth. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a wild and. why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of this special ality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that

worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that's a lot of us heading. that service down the hay back who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the horse. i was i was working in this out of what they call their the foreign ministers cabinet or the or the secretariat my husband was with fassel . legen lost a state secretary more now you know and i had studied political science in the university we had been skiing together we had been to. university camps together and her husband tell you that lawson i also knew from his work as an academic and his work in creation of farfel the trade union think tank

so these were my friends when i became already when i became. the deputy of the top stories and book in the minister of foreign affairs it's often difficult for foreigners to understand the law very very small country and the labor party house rule of law work for the most of the post war period so you have collections and you are almost probably is married together within the labor party almost male sometimes call it the royal labor party because they are like a dynasty. this was a very tight knit foreign minister stoltenberg appointed yun egeland as his deputy . and mona you'll as a girl and secretary she was married to terry or rod lawson the director of faffing . stoltenberg sister in law was marianne high burden who worked in far from she was

married to defense minister johan you're going holst this made holes and the foreign minister stoltenberg brothers in law holds himself later became foreign minister this extended political family became the norwegian team in the secret israeli p.l.o. talks they could use that research as it used their situation as a as a front for a diplomatic effort to to facilitate peace talks between the two parties and then do that in all secrecy you are very critical about this why. i think research is in the should not usually be in the they will take two hats being double roles in tel aviv another research institute was also acting as a cover for communication between the israelis and palestinians. this was the

economic cooperation foundation set up by israeli labor party m p u c balan the n.g.o.s that we were leading huge for them myself and enjoy which was created earlier by bailey and his friend we were able to go between the two sites in jerusalem and pass messages and come with ideas and even bring the two sides i'm officially together and the hour of an ngo i was involved with talking to the side for many years in a very informal way mainly we. will send me if from is jerusalem. with whom it was easy to talk. by nine hundred eighty nine with the palestinian intifada in its second year there were few signs of hope for peace. hundreds of palestinians had been killed and

thousands detained. on. just what the united states under president george bush started to increase the pressure on israeli prime minister yitzhak shamir the peace corps says still to come for stuff to stay just the first page full interview. conditions. this released. lord they're full autonomy etc just such states will be vexed and it was she a socialist. good condition that the palestinian not ups and some other countries if they've joined they've never seen this. community plea on peace talks.

they have ended told election. minister territories. democrats believe. their believe. everything changed in the region when iraq invaded kuwait in one nine hundred ninety. the united states led a coalition of nations that retaliated against iraqi forces just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait. these attacks continue as. arafat's rejected a military solution to iraq's invasion of kuwait this proved a costly decision before the. p.l.o. to. big for that support from that have got states. off to the

void because of. the. support to saddam hussein that if that support disappeared they came all it's of that. void. very very cute and i think frank was also vulnerabilities. these c.d.'s then are more interested in discussing with them often they go for that beef. we of course have crops that elections for the united states of america. they lie there defend and made of secret all the contacts at the piano obviously and this she had some all over it said smith bass it's all know it can be a little bit of an american that yes. in the aftermath of the one nine hundred

ninety one gulf war the united states and the soviet union co-hosted a peace conference in the spanish capital of madrid we have an opportunity. i think a real opportunity to see. arabs arab states. sitting down face to face and direct negotiations with israel. will let the will dock. idea because you have that show me a yes. and no nor one of them at the moment and. where you. men are all going for this the media that obama know who has been joining us. oh yes. the others in yellow blue with. him in the two of them philammon

e.c.s. in newark i didn't came here. to mow. the . well.