Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
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...