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The Obama Nobel mystery
Yoram Ettinger
Published: 12.10.09, 10:49
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1. Superficial! Unaware of the Medusa threat
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (10.12.09)
See "Roots of Obama's Social Revolution." Click on the Web Cafe in the left panel of The Netzarim website at www.netzarim.co.il
2. Look at his record - 0% accomplished
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (10.12.09)
The Nobel prize nomination was for a vision of a presidential candidate not a president. So far Obama has killed the Israel/Palestinian peace and removed the one Palestinian who wanted to make peace - Abbas. Obama has made a lot of noise about the environment, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gay rights, nuclear disarmament, etc. At the time of nomination he had 0% accomplished. At the time of the award he will have 0% accomplished. As it looks now, at the time he leaves office in January 2012 he will have 0% accomplished. In retrospect this will turn out to be even less useful than giving Yasser Arafat the same Peace Prize while he was organizing and approving terrorist attacks. But this is what we have come to expect from Norway.
3. Done Deal
Michael Durbin ,   Hong Kong, China   (10.12.09)
They did not need to give him a prize to encourage "eUroPeaNiZatiOn," Oh-Blah-Blah has accomplished that all by himself
4. disgraceful
Ellen ,   Israel/USA   (10.12.09)
Giving someone who has done nothing for peace has only cheapened the prize. While I had problems with Arafat/Rabin getting it--at least they made some attempt at peace, albeit a very, IMO misguided one. Obama hasn't even done that. When awards are given out and they are unearned then everyone who will earn them in the future will receive something that is devalued. But, I am not surprised. Obama is being treated as a demi-G-d, so why not this award too?
5. Money is just fine, Dalai Lama is not
Bribery of European ,   left to US appeaser   (10.12.09)
6. The prize is now less valuable than when given to Arafat
Baruch ,   Boston, USA   (10.12.09)
7. no 3 - Killed peace?
alex ,   tel-aviv   (10.12.09)
Excuse me, which peace are you talking about? He removed Abbas - non-elected , weak leader, whose energy is fully consumed by incessant condemnations of whatever Israel does? Abbas is there only because of Israeli bayonets, without them he'd have fled under Hamas's assault. Even though I agree with your assessment ref Obama nomination, this statment ref Abba/peace sounds plain ridiculous.
8. Very good article, thx
Alexandre ,   Montreal   (10.12.09)
9. The Europeans are right...
Yonatan ,   Yerushalayim   (10.12.09)
the US must remove ALL of its military forces back to US soil. The US must give back all "territories, insular possessions and protectorates" and close all military bases outside of the 50 states. Even though it was the presence of US troops in Germany that prevented the USSR from swallowing ALL of Europe, the US should have never spent billions of dollars of American taxpayers money to protect those ingrates. US troops should be removed from Europe, Asia (including South Korea and Japan), the entire South Pacific, the Middle East, and South America. Since, in the Leftist worldview, no country will attack another country, the US can cease pretending to be the world's police force. After all, Russia didn't really attack Georgia last yar, North Korea is peaceful, there are no hostilities in South America, there's no fighting currently in Africa, and "jihad" really means religious tolerance and peaceful coexistance.
10. An extremely literate and
Robert Haymond ,   Ashdod, Israel   (10.13.09)
thoughtful article and so, too, with regard to a handful of Talkbacks. Thank you for the educational experience.
11. obama
sas ,   israel   (10.13.09)
a big joke. if it was a serious organization no one should have gotten the prize.
12. to 7
..... ,   ....   (10.13.09)
becouse of that T.A. gave him the price it is not nobel but israili price not prize
13. Nobel Screw - Up prize for Bush
Jon ,   USA   (10.13.09)
That's what they really wanted to award-but didn't have the guts
14. The award . . .
Mark ,   Dickinson USA   (10.13.09)
confirms that Obama is simply a puppet. There are strong and dangerous forces behind the man. He has little control over what he does. This doesn't seem to bother him however, as long as there is more caviar.
15. More pressure on Israel
IRAN#1   (10.13.09)
Clearly this was a subtle way for the Euros to put pressure on Israel without being called anti-semitic as usual. Another warning sign, along with Turkish snub. xpect many more actions like this until even the thickest headed zionists get the message of the world.
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