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The staff's call for Peres and Rabin to decline their Nobel Peace Prize is based on the kind of blind self-righteouness that has thwarted the peace process in the past.
What the Israeli government realizes but the staff chooses to ignore is that Arafat is a necessary part of a peace process; it has been his willingness to sit down with Peres and Rabin that has allowed discussions to begin. The Nobel Committee offered the prize, as it has done...
Rather than decline the prize, thus hindering the path towards peace, Peres and Rabin should welcome it as a sign that peace in the Middle East is of importance to the entire world. --Natasha H. Leland '95
In spite of this political situation, Rabin and Peres have proceeded. By tolerating terrorist attacks against Israelis, Rabin surely faces the possibility of being ousted in a vote of no confidence.
Complacency on his part will permanently derail the peace talks, since Rabin, Peres and the Israeli people will eventually lose the capacity to continue in the face of unchecked Palestinian terror.