It was an 11-million shekel production dubbed by many as a "North Korea-style event" for the man who brought 'The Bomb’ to Israel, tried to offer it to Apartheid South Africa when the rest of the world was already boycotting it, was an active partner in promoting some of Israel’s more aggressive wars and one of the architects of the Israeli neo-liberal economy of privatization. In a film made in honor of the event, Peres was shown accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace – but Yasser Arafat and any mention of Oslo was edited out.
Celebrities of all sorts attended, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who the very next day began meetings with Israeli officials in order to protect Nobel Energy’s interests in Israel’s natural gas finds – in his capacity as a lobbyist for the company .... http://972mag.com
