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...Yitzhak Rabin...
Background: as Defense Minister, Rabin oversaw a brutal policy to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, granting soldiers the right to break bones...
...myth is simple and satisfying: genius labors long and hard, achieves brilliant success, wins Nobel Prize, basks in glory. But prizewinners' stories are rarely so straightforward. This year's controversial Peace Prize, for example, which was shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, has triggered as much controversy as celebration. And for some of the other laureates, there are, behind the Nobel Committee's glowing citations, tales of recognition too long deferred, of promise lost, of pain and tragedy...
Nobel's 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...
Humility on the part of the winners may play well on television, but it isn't enough. Rabin and Peres should decline the honor, rather than share it with Arafat and so disgrace the memory of his victims. In any case, if they are truly committed to the cause of peace, they should wait until they've actually accomplished something, before accepting a prize...