Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prize is not for me," said Arafat, the terrorist-turned-media darling. "It is for my people who suffered a lot, people who have been able to achieve the peace of the brave, for our martyrs, for our prisoners, for our children, for the future...
...miles away, in Jerusalem, a statement by Rabin echoed Arafat's words. "The prize is for the future more than it is a reward for the efforts of peace that have been made up until now," the prime minister said...
...that doesn't change the fact that Rabin, Peres and Arafat will share what is perhaps the world's most prestigious honor for a task that isn't even half completed. In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel specified that the peace prize bearing his name should be awarded to the person who, in the preceding year, "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations...
...words were vague. Still, it seems to us that good intentions should not be the stuff of Nobel prizes, especially given the fact that everything achieved in the last year could disintegrate as hastily as it was accomplished. At this embryonic stage in the peace process, Rabin Peres and Arafat simply don't deserve the prize...
Indeed, in the case of Arafat, the honor is particularly egregious--a slap in the face to the hundreds of innocent civilians who have been brutally murdered at his direction over the past several decades. One doesn't celebrate a murderer simply because he promises not to kill again. This fact was not lost on one member of the prize committee, who resigned rather than award the prize to Arafat...