OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" with his work for peace and calls to reduce the global stockpile of nuclear weapons.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The first African-American to hold his country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.
"Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in a citation.
It awarded the prize to Obama less than nine months into his presidency. Despite setting out an ambitious international agenda, he has yet to score any breakthrough on the Middle East or Iran's nuclear program, and faces difficult choices on the conduct of the war in Afghanistan.
AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, though Iran has the right to its nuclear program like so many other nuclear nations including Israel, why is he closing his eyes on Israel's nuclear capabilities? Isn't this called political hypocracy? So do we give Nobel prizesto hypocrates? (my comment)
Last month Obama chaired a historic meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously approved a U.S.-drafted resolution calling on nuclear weapons states to scrap their arsenals.
WOW, and they will definitely obey, on top of them Israel!!! (my comment)
Obama is the third senior U.S. Democrat to win the prize this decade after former Vice President Al Gore won in 2007 along with the U.N. climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002.
The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on December 10.
(Reporting by Oslo newsroom, editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," citing his 1. fledgling push for nuclear disarmament, and 2. his outreach to the Muslim world.
Hurray, well-done Obama! But you're keeping Israel's nuke secret. President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections. Mr. Obama conveyed the message when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May. Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) , which could require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs. Israel had been nervous that Mr. Obama would not continue the 1969 understanding because of his strong support for nonproliferation and priority on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The U.S. and five other world powers made progress during talks with Iran in Geneva on Thursday as Iran agreed in principle to transfer some potential bomb fuel out of the country and to open a recently disclosed facility to international inspection. Mr. Netanyahu let the news of the continued U.S.-Israeli accord slip last week in a remark that attracted little notice. He was asked by Israel's Channel 2 whether he was worried that Mr. Obama's speech at the U.N. General Assembly, calling for a world without nuclear weapons, would apply to Israel.
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Embodyment of hypocracy itself. And why would Israel be nervous and BIBI be woried. Israeli leaders mentioned before for more than one time that Israel should not worry about America as they control America and the American people (politicall through their AIPAC and their behind-the-curtain elites, and publically through the MEDIA which they almost own it all)
As for Obama's outreach to the Muslim world. It is all politics and tactics. He just told the Muslim world what they wanted to hear, quoting verses from the Qur'an and talking of the Mslim's great achievement throughtout history. Who would't like hearing that. But let us take him to the test.
Blocking Goldstone's report
...The most likely tactical considerations behind the administration’s decision [to block Goldstone] seem short-sighted. Its move likely responded to the intense public and private Israeli campaign against the report, and probably aimed at winning back some positive relations with the Israelis and maintaining momentum on the peace process. But if the administration’s hope was that killing the report would make the issue quietly go away while winning some political capital with the Israelis, it is likely to be disappointed. Quite the contrary: the report is becoming a major political issue in the Arab world, badly damaging the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority, while Obama seems to be getting little credit from Israeli public opinion or the Israeli governmen.
…There seems to be little question that Abbas’s decision to go along with American pressure will have a significant impact on the popularity and legitimacy of the PA…Whatever gains made by Fatah after its Bethlehem conference and by Fayyad with the announcement of his agenda for a Palestinian state are likely to be washed away in this deluge. The credibility of the Hamas narrative about the PA’s collaboration with Israel and unrepresentative nature will be strongly enhanced. And it will not help Salam Fayyad establish authority that he has been fingered by some sources as the person directly responsible for the decision.
Why was the PA leadership put in this untenable situation? The Obama team has consistently identified building Palestinian Authority legitimacy and capacity as a key part of its strategy. Did nobody consider the impact that such an important symbolic issue as the perceived suppression of the Goldstone report would have on this supposedly crucial dimension of the strategy?
At the wider Arab level, the American stance on the Goldstone report has galvanized doubts about the credibility of Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world and claims to genuine change. The skeptics who demanded deeds to match words are having a field day. Obama's inability prevails in the battle over the settlements, and hurts Obama’s credibility with the Arab world for prioritizing the issue.
But the Goldstone report decision looks to most of the Arab public as a straightforward capitulation to Israel and abdication of any claims to the moral high ground. It will further undermine the Cairo promises, which look ever more distant.
In short, the granting of the Nobel prize does not really thrills me for some reasons: 1. the man has not yet achieved that much to be awarded. Critics called the Nobel committee's decision premature, given that Obama has achieved few tangible gains as he grapples with challenges ranging from the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, and 2. The prize has been given before to the war-criminal, Menachem Begin and the Tyrant/trairor, Anwar El-Sadat, who betrayed his people in Camp David. The prize was given for the same reason, "PEACE", the actual meaning of which has been more than one time aborted by the mid-wife's hand of Mr. Nobel.
NKVD mug shot of
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The first African-American to hold his country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.
"Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in a citation.
It awarded the prize to Obama less than nine months into his presidency. Despite setting out an ambitious international agenda, he has yet to score any breakthrough on the Middle East or Iran's nuclear program, and faces difficult choices on the conduct of the war in Afghanistan.
AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, though Iran has the right to its nuclear program like so many other nuclear nations including Israel, why is he closing his eyes on Israel's nuclear capabilities? Isn't this called political hypocracy? So do we give Nobel prizesto hypocrates? (my comment)
Last month Obama chaired a historic meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously approved a U.S.-drafted resolution calling on nuclear weapons states to scrap their arsenals.
WOW, and they will definitely obey, on top of them Israel!!! (my comment)
Obama is the third senior U.S. Democrat to win the prize this decade after former Vice President Al Gore won in 2007 along with the U.N. climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002.
The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on December 10.
(Reporting by Oslo newsroom, editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," citing his 1. fledgling push for nuclear disarmament, and 2. his outreach to the Muslim world.
Hurray, well-done Obama! But you're keeping Israel's nuke secret. President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections. Mr. Obama conveyed the message when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May. Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) , which could require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs. Israel had been nervous that Mr. Obama would not continue the 1969 understanding because of his strong support for nonproliferation and priority on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The U.S. and five other world powers made progress during talks with Iran in Geneva on Thursday as Iran agreed in principle to transfer some potential bomb fuel out of the country and to open a recently disclosed facility to international inspection. Mr. Netanyahu let the news of the continued U.S.-Israeli accord slip last week in a remark that attracted little notice. He was asked by Israel's Channel 2 whether he was worried that Mr. Obama's speech at the U.N. General Assembly, calling for a world without nuclear weapons, would apply to Israel.
As for Obama's outreach to the Muslim world. It is all politics and tactics. He just told the Muslim world what they wanted to hear, quoting verses from the Qur'an and talking of the Mslim's great achievement throughtout history. Who would't like hearing that. But let us take him to the test.
Blocking Goldstone's report
...The most likely tactical considerations behind the administration’s decision [to block Goldstone] seem short-sighted. Its move likely responded to the intense public and private Israeli campaign against the report, and probably aimed at winning back some positive relations with the Israelis and maintaining momentum on the peace process. But if the administration’s hope was that killing the report would make the issue quietly go away while winning some political capital with the Israelis, it is likely to be disappointed. Quite the contrary: the report is becoming a major political issue in the Arab world, badly damaging the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority, while Obama seems to be getting little credit from Israeli public opinion or the Israeli governmen.
…There seems to be little question that Abbas’s decision to go along with American pressure will have a significant impact on the popularity and legitimacy of the PA…Whatever gains made by Fatah after its Bethlehem conference and by Fayyad with the announcement of his agenda for a Palestinian state are likely to be washed away in this deluge. The credibility of the Hamas narrative about the PA’s collaboration with Israel and unrepresentative nature will be strongly enhanced. And it will not help Salam Fayyad establish authority that he has been fingered by some sources as the person directly responsible for the decision.
Why was the PA leadership put in this untenable situation? The Obama team has consistently identified building Palestinian Authority legitimacy and capacity as a key part of its strategy. Did nobody consider the impact that such an important symbolic issue as the perceived suppression of the Goldstone report would have on this supposedly crucial dimension of the strategy?
At the wider Arab level, the American stance on the Goldstone report has galvanized doubts about the credibility of Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world and claims to genuine change. The skeptics who demanded deeds to match words are having a field day. Obama's inability prevails in the battle over the settlements, and hurts Obama’s credibility with the Arab world for prioritizing the issue.
But the Goldstone report decision looks to most of the Arab public as a straightforward capitulation to Israel and abdication of any claims to the moral high ground. It will further undermine the Cairo promises, which look ever more distant.
In short, the granting of the Nobel prize does not really thrills me for some reasons: 1. the man has not yet achieved that much to be awarded. Critics called the Nobel committee's decision premature, given that Obama has achieved few tangible gains as he grapples with challenges ranging from the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, and 2. The prize has been given before to the war-criminal, Menachem Begin and the Tyrant/trairor, Anwar El-Sadat, who betrayed his people in Camp David. The prize was given for the same reason, "PEACE", the actual meaning of which has been more than one time aborted by the mid-wife's hand of Mr. Nobel.
NKVD mug shot of
Menachem Begin, 1940
So did Menachem Begin, a war criminal in Palestine, who on 20 September 1940 was arrested by the NKVD and detained in the Lukiškės Prison. He was accused of being an "agent of British imperialism" and sentenced to eight years in the Soviet gulag camps. On 1 June 1941 he was sent to the Pechora labor camps in the northern part of European Russia, where he stayed until May 1942.
In June 1941, just after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and following his release under the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, Begin joined the Polish Army of Anders. He was later sent with the army to Palestine via the Persian Corridor.
Upon arrival in August 1942, he received a proposal to take over a position in the Irgun, as Betar's Commissioner. He joined the Jewish national movement in the British Mandate of Palestine.
The Irgun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. According to Howard Sachar, "The policy of the new organization was based squarely on Jabotinsky's teachings: "every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state".
Some of the better-known attacks by the Irgun were the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre (accomplished together with Lehi) on 9 April 1948.
In 1947 "the British army in Mandate Palestine banned the use of the term 'terrorist' to refer to the Irgun zvai Leumi ... because it implied that British forces had reason to be terrified," but this did not stop others referring to it as a terrorist organization, e.g. the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, several media sources, and a number of prominent world and Jewish figures. Irgun attacks prompted a formal declaration from the World Zionist Congress in 1946, which strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare."
The Israeli government, in September 1948, acting in response to the assassination of Lord Moyne, dissolved the Irgun and Lehi groups as part of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance.
The Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party. Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.
My God, his speech was so eloquent that I was thrilled, but since I've been bitten so many times, I knew that it was as usual political for one simple fact: Why did he opt for most of his advisors entourage to be Zionists? And while we are at it, what are those strong bonds based on historical grounds he wants to keep between the USA and the Jews (Israel) who has so far done nothing but hurting the American people? Why does he have to remind the Egyptian with the Holocaust which they have nothing to do with it? He criticized Palestinians for violence. Why not Israel, too. Did he ever study the history of the bloody state of Israel and how violently it established itself by massacring and ethnic cleansing the Palestinians? Did he ever hear of the hundreds of Palestinian villages that have been leveled to the ground, of Sabra and Shatila, of Deir Yassin, of the blowing of King david hotel, of shooting the USA ship Liberty, of distroying Lebanon, of Israel spying on the US. The list is too long to mention everything.
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