Item ELUSIVE PEACE 2/16 - Transcript of interview with former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 2004

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996; Minister for Foreign Affairs, 2001-2002, describing the funeral of King Hassan of Morocco, Jul 1999; meeting between Peres and Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan 2001; the assassination of Gen Rehavam ‘Ghandi’ Zeevi, Israeli Minister of Tourism, Oct 2001; the capture of a weapons shipment from the Palestinian freighter KARINE A, Jan 2002; the assassination of al-Asqsa Martyrs’ Brigade member Raed Karmi, Jan 2002; the Hamas suicide bombing of the Park Hotel, Netanya, Israel, Mar 2002; debate over how the Israeli government should deal with Yasser Arafat; the visit of Gen Colin Powell, US Secretary of State 2001-2005, to Israel, 2002; the UN Security Council resolution to send a fact finding mission to investigate Operation DEFENSIVE SHIELD, Jenin, Apr 2002; negotiations with the US administration to end the first siege of Arafat’s compound, Ramallah, West Bank, Mar-May 2002; his opinion of Yasser Arafat.