The Frost Interview — Shimon Peres: Self-Victimising Palestinians features an exclusive conversation between Sir David Frost and Shimon Peres, Israel’s president and one of the defining political figures in the country’s history.
In a wide-ranging interview, Peres reflects on war, peace, memory and political responsibility, from his family’s tragic fate during the Holocaust to Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War and the expansion of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He questions aspects of Israeli settlement policy, arguing that the project grew beyond control as the numbers increased, while also insisting that Palestinians have too often been victims of their own political mistakes.
The interview also revisits some of the most painful and contested chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including accusations surrounding the death of Yasser Arafat and Peres’s memories of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Part historical reflection and part political reckoning, The Frost Interview — Shimon Peres: Self-Victimising Palestinians offers a rare portrait of a statesman looking back on the choices, conflicts and compromises that shaped modern Israel.
Eki Rrahmani worked with Sir David Frost on one of Frost’s final television series before his untimely death the following year — an honour he continues to cherish. Rrahmani also produced an exclusive interview with Frost for Albanian television about the feature film Frost/Nixon.
