Word: plo
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...week ago today, The New York. Times reported the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman, an Israeli soldier, by members of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group. Right underneath, another article revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and PLO leader Yassir Arafat would share the Nobel Peace Prize...
...same day that Hamas terrorists murdered Nachshon Waxman, a joint American and Israeli citizen, a committee in Sweden announced its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chair Yasaer Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In so doing the committee reinforced and validated a dangerous misconception about the meaning of the word "peace...
...Hamas were truly interested in the release of the prisoners from jail, they could have chosen any one of several options, the most obvious of which is entering the political process. Arafat, who did so proved that this was the most effective method to have members of the PLO released from Israeli jails, and in greater numbers than those demanded by Hamas...
...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
Left off the roster for the $930,000 award were Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, PLO bigwig Mahmoud Abbas and the Norwegian peace brokers who sweated over the deal. Oh, and, of course, Jimmy Carter...