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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...
Three days later, the soldier was murdered by his captors during a rescue attempt, and the Nobel Committee officially announced that the 1994 Peace Prize would be given to Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...
...Rabin assured his people that the peace process would reduce terrorism, and it was on this premise that his government began negotiations with the PLO. Continued negotiations are contingent upon Arafat's ability to control terrorist elements within the self-rule areas...
...yielding to pacifism, Rabin and Peres went so far as to give weapons to the Palestinians, some of whom openly declared that they will use them against Israel. Again, what they and the Nobel Committee ignore is the full meaning of the word "peace...
...Nobel Peace Prize will be given to Arafat, Rabin and Peres for words and not substance, for pacifism, not peace. It is high time for our leaders, both here and abroad, to understand--and act upon--the true meaning of "peace...