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Instead, the winners--Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chair Yasser Arafat--spoke soberly of the work that remains to be done if peace is to last. They acknowledged, somberly, the victims on both sides who have died in wars and terrorist attacks. They dedicated their honor to the memory of those victims...
...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...
Later that same day, after the kidnapped soldier and an Israeli commando were killed in a failed hostage rescue attempt, Rabin grew even more solemn. "I would say that I would be happy to give back the Nobel Peace Prize to bring back to life both of the soldiers who fell," he said. A moving, if symbolic offer...
Sadly, the dead soldiers won't be coming back to life. Within days of Rabin's statement, dozens more Israelis had died in terrorist attacks. Likely, many more will die before any semblance of peace truly settles over the battle-scarred region...
...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...