The award is certainly unexpected and might be regarded as more of an encouragement for intentions than a reward for achievements.
Paul Reynolds, BBC News, London
News that President Obama received the Nobel Peace elicited a gasp from the anchor of afternoon newsreel of Israel Broadcasting Authority Radio on Friday - "Well, now that is a surprise", she said with some spontaneity.
Within an hour of the announcement, Reuven Rivlin, veteran speaker of the Israel Knesset Parliament, warned that "Someone who gets a peace prize should not force-feed Israel with his version of peace", going on to say that he hoped that the peace prize would not inspire the president to "dictate a peace accord to Israel"
Talk
about wishful thinking. This will only encourage Obama to think that
now he has a "mandate" to continue on the path he originally set for
himself, regardless of its merits--especially since the prize is
awarded by Norway, which similarly gave its blessing to Arafat:
Israel has reason to be concerned.
The committee that awards the Nobel Peace prize is comprised of officials from the Norwegian political elite, as opposed to other Nobel prizes for excellence in science, education, health or other scholarly concerns.
The announcement of this prize occurs at a time that Norway remains almost the only European nation to recognize, aid and abet the Hamas regime in Gaza, at a time when Norway sanctions boycotts of some Israeli companies, and at at time when Norway openly funds movements in Israel that advocate the expulsion of Jewish communities from Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Jerusalem.
Things are so bad between Norway and Israel that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is now considering filing a formal request to expel Norwegian peace keeping observers from Hebron.
In other words, for many Israelis. the Norwegian endorsement of a peace initiatives of President Obama reads like a kiss of death for Israel, conveying a message, which is that the US should lead the world community to establish a Palestinian state, even if that state would launch aerial attacks on Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, much as the Palestinian entity in Gaza now fires freely on Sderot and the Western Negev.
Bedein concludes:
Will the Nobel Peace Prize give President Obama the leverage that he needs to lower the boom on Israel?
Time will tell.
And sooner, rather than later.
by Daled Amos"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." There nothing like the proud of whom flattery lifts them up to undeserved heights of fame. And G-d endures forever.
Let's hope the Jewish people appreciate the difference between one who deserves nothing and the One who is the Creator Of Heaven and Earth.
Posted by: NormanF at October 9, 2009 12:16 PMOn the other hand, speeches and fine sounding Muslim rhetoric may be all there is to the man. It's not as if he actually accomplished anything.
Posted by: Empress Trudy at October 9, 2009 1:32 PMIt's perfectly understandable when you consider what the nobel Peace prize committee represents. It is made up of ideological leftists who hate America and hate Israel. Remember yassir arafat received the nobel peace prize. Once that happened, it became totally discredited and ceased to be an honor at all.
Now let's look at obama's achievements at peace so far. He cowardly remained silent while Iranian protesters were slaughtered on the streets for trying to bring democracy to their country. He sided with the Honduran marxist president who violated his own country's constitution to declare himself president for life al la hugo chavez. He caved to Russia and betrayed our allies, Poland and the Czech Republic by backing down on placing a missile defense, leaving them vulnerable to Russian aggression. He made pandering, flattering speeches full of lies to appease the muslim world and bowed to a saudi king. He has been indecisive about Afghanistan, endangering our soldiers. He has displayed impotence towards Iran while it continues to develop nuclear weapons. He has been out to punish our CIA agents while granting more rights to captured terrorists. And finally he pressured Israel and demanded Jews not be allowed to live in certain parts of Jerusalem, thus emboldening the palestinians to launch a possible third intifada, starting on the Temple Mount. All of these things, weakening America, Israel and the free world and strengthening terrorists and tyrants of course makes him perfectly eligible for the nobel peace prize.
Another reason hussein obama was handed this award was because he was humiliated by the olympic committee rejection of Chicago to host the 2016 games after he put his own prestige on the line. You can imagine what this does to an egomaniac like obama. So his sychophants decided to give him this award to soothe his wounded ego and possibly regain his high approval ratings with the American public. No wonder this man has such an enormous ego, with all of these sycophants and enablers convincing him of his greatness and rewarding him even though he has never actually accomplished much of anything in his life and never had to work hard to earn anything. The nobel prize committee has further enabled this narcissist and encouraged his policy of appeasement.
Posted by: Laura at October 9, 2009 6:34 PMthe Norwegian Nobel committee awarded its peace prize to a man who has achieved nothing � in the faint hope that he will do something good in the future. that's how bad things have become in the middle east.
no wonder obama said he was 'humbled'. he should have been ashamed.