Daniel Greenfield
January 13, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog
In November 2020, filming began on Oslo: an adaptation of the
revisionist history Broadway play about the fake peace process between
Israel and the PLO terrorist organization.
That same month, the
man at the center of both the play and the movie, Terje Rød Larsen
announced that he was stepping down as president and CEO of the
International Peace Institute after it was revealed that he had taken a
$130,000 personal loan from Jeffrey Epstein.
The International
Peace Institute is closely linked to the United Nations and its honorary
chair is usually the UN Secretary General. The notorious pedophile
didn’t just give Larsen money, he also pumped $650,000 into
the UN-linked group through his “foundations'' and the Norwegian paper
that broke the story published emails showing that Larsen’s people were
trying to move money from IPI back to Jeffrey Epstein.
"For forms sake we should send it to Jeff, however I am sure we will
get it back many fold!" Larsen appears to have written in one email.

It
was 2016. The date on the original loan was in 2013. All of this took
place years after the original Epstein case and his conviction. The
ex-UN diplomat knew whom he was dealing with.
But the Epstein
scandal didn’t stop Oslo from being produced by Steven Spielberg anyway.
Or HBO from moving forward with plans to air a story about a disgraced
Jeffrey Epstein associate.
Neither HBO nor Spielberg are strangers to revisionist history or anti-Israel propaganda.
Spielberg’s
most infamous movie, Munich, equated the terrorists murdering Israeli
civilians with the Israeli operatives trying to stop them, and was the
work of screenwriter Tony Kushner who had declared that he wished Israel
had never existed. HBO has been responsible for a litany of anti-Israel flicks, most recently,
Our Boys, which was
protested by the families of terror victims.
But Oslo is awkward because a man linked to the world’s most notorious pedophile is its hero.
Oslo,
the original play, was born when Terje Rød Larsen modestly proposed it
to director Bartlett Sher who is also directing the HBO movie. The
director and the diplomat are good friends.
“We were part of a historic event which we have waited twenty years to see written about,” is how Larsen pitched his story.
The
“historic event” has been written to death. The so-called peace
agreement has killed more people than many actual wars. The real problem
was that the story was fading away. And, most particularly, Larsen’s
starring role in the story which is key to his fame and his career.
The
premise of Oslo is that Larsen and his wife, Mona Juul, who still
serves as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Norway Mission to
the United Nations, got the “warring sides” to make peace by seeing each
other as human beings for the first time. And it’s nonsense.
The
true story of Oslo is how Israeli lefty radicals double-crossed their
own country and government, violated laws against doing exactly what
they were doing, made repeated concessions to the terrorists, and then
presented a hoax of a peace agreement.
Arafat, the PLO, and the
entire terrorist movement built around a fake ‘Palestinian’ nationality,
never made peace, never recognized Israel, and were not going to stop
killing Jews.
What was the whole thing really about? Long before Epstein, Larsen had been accused of
trading cash for a Nobel Peace Prize.
KÃ¥re Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee, alleged that Larsen
got $100,000 from the Peres Center, a project of Israel’s notoriously
corrupt left-wing foreign minister, to ensure that Shimon Peres would
receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian government had been pumping
millions of kroner into
the Peres Peace Center which was writing a very large check to Larsen.
Meanwhile Larsen was also sitting on the board of governors of the Peres
Peace Center which was giving him an award and
a big check.
The
diplomat claimed that he had informed the Norwegian government to which
it responded, "no one in the Foreign Ministry has known about these
sums of money." There
were also
suggestions that it would investigate the role that Mona Juul, Larsen’s
wife, who was also getting the prize money, had played in getting those
millions of kroner to the Peace Center.
In 2002, a conservative
Israeli government bounced Larsen, who was being billed as ‘Mr. Peace’,
after he falsely accused Israel of having “lost all moral authority”
while it was fighting the Islamic terrorists behind
the Passover Massacre of thirty people: most of them senior citizens.
Larsen’s
false claims of an Israeli massacre in Jenin that was “horrifying
beyond belief”, “a shameful chapter in Israel’s history”, and rife with
“the stench of death” were
disproven. Even the UN’s own report found that 52 died, most of them terrorists, along with 23 Israeli soldiers.
Two
years later, the PLO declared ‘Mr. Peace’ persona non-grata making
Larsen’s unwantedness in the region about the only thing that the
Israelis and the terrorists agreed on.
A few years later, it was
discovered that all of the ‘Oslo Files’, the papers related to the
so-called negotiations, had vanished from the Norwegian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. The twists and turns in the search for those documents,
and why they went missing would make for a much more interesting story
than the tedious nonsense of Sher directing another glamorization of
Larsen.
There are plenty of interesting angles to Larsen’s story
that Spielberg and Sher won’t touch, but the real truth about Larsen is
that his story matters much less than the devastation of Oslo. The
backchannel wasn’t a triumph of peace, but a dirty leftist political
trick that wrecked Israel’s security, touched off decades of intense
violence in the region, and cost thousands of lives.
Oslo is
another one of the same stories that the elite tell each other. Larsen
and Sher got to know each other because their daughters attended the
same Manhattan private school. Larsen and J.T. Rogers, the playwright,
then met up at an “Upper West Side haunt” for drinks. Oslo did well on
Broadway by way of being touted by the New York Times, and will be an
HBO movie.
There is one giant hole in Oslo’s story about the
power of Norwegian diplomats who send their kids to Manhattan private
schools to make peace. There wasn’t and isn’t any actual peace.
The
only meaningful peace accords in the region that led to normalization
weren’t made by Larsen, Clinton, Peres, and Rabin, but by Trump,
Netanyahu, and conservative leaders. Oslo is nostalgic peace porn from
the elites who failed miserably, though not at getting rich or getting a
lot of people killed, calculated to obscure the real world triumphs of
Trump and Netanyahu.
Jeffrey Epstein thrived in these same
elitist circles and was plugged into the same networks. When Larsen,
previously earning around half a million a year as head of the IPI,
needed $130,000, he was there to lend it to him. And provide cash and
connections for countless members of the elite, trading favors, offering
introductions, and palling around with everyone.
Oslo isn’t
about Israel or Islamic terrorism. Like everything the decadent cultural
industry of our country makes, it’s about that incestuous world whose
key players all send their kids to the same private schools, hang out at
the same bars, and agree on the same basic things. They’re also very
good at not seeing things like abused teenage girls or thousands of dead
people.
If Bartlett Sher wanted to make a truly relevant and
groundbreaking play, he would tell the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s
network and of the girls he abused, some of them the same age as his
daughter. But that play, unlike his theatrical smears of American
foreign policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East, would never be put
on, and would be quickly sunk by the New York Times.
And Spielberg, and the rest of the gang, along with HBO, wouldn’t turn it into a movie.
The
real life players and their fictional counterparts in this world give
each other awards and good reviews. They write about the world, but the
only world they know is their own, and despite the dictum of writing
what you know, they have little interest in writing about the horrors in
their own world, when they can write about how their friends brought
peace to the Middle East.
Oslo unintentionally explains why the
professional peacemakers failed so miserably. It wasn’t only Jeffrey
Epstein’s abused girls they couldn’t see, but the limits of their own
corrupt hubris. They promise to solve the problems of the people who
aren’t as famous and connected as they are, but fail horribly every
single time, only to spin those failures as historic successes.
And if the New York Times says so, it must be true.
The
true story of Oslo is a tale of corruption, death, and bloodshed. It’s
about the price that ordinary people paid when the elites got their way.
It’s about Jewish senior citizens murdered while celebrating Passover,
schoolgirls blown up on buses, and children shot in the head. It’s a
million miles away from the world of Off-Broadway plays and Manhattan
private schools, skyscraper boardrooms and Brentwood mansions that
spawned Oslo’s revisionist history.
The violence unleashed by
Oslo’s empowered terrorists in Israel fell heaviest on working class
people riding the bus to their jobs or commuting to cheaper homes in
Judea and Samaria.
While Oslo films in Prague, the terrorism
continues in Israel. And Jeffrey Epstein’s old associates look forward
to being able to watch Oslo’s message that the elites know best while
paying no attention to the terrorism, to Larsen’s scandals, or to their
own corruption.
Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center