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Monday, October 19, 2009     FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Want to crush your enemies? Wish their leaders … Nobel Peace Prizes

Alexander Maistrovoy

I do not envy the country whose leader becomes a Nobel Laureate. The majority of such leaders brought their peoples nothing but misfortunes, failures, defeats and humiliations.   

John Hume, the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. It was accompanied by mass riots on Aug. 15th, 1998, killing 29 and injuring more than 200 Catholics and Protestants, children and aged people among them. Recently Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams repeated that he would demand “the end of the British government intrusion into our country”. Unionists in Ireland are disarmed, the official IRA continues to reject the disarmament plan, and the “real IRA” threatens to go back to terror.

The favorite of the Western mass-media Mikail Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the West "Gorby" was welcomed as the democratic destroyer of the "Empire of evil". In contrast, the disintegration of the Soviet empire brought suffering to tens of millions of simple people. It was accompanied by slaughters and ethnic cleansings, bloody separatist conflicts and massive migrations of populations.


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Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres received the Nobel Prize for "peace agreements" in Oslo. The results of the "peace process" were: ruthless Palestinian terror, lots of victims on both sides, the sufferings of Palestinian Arabs deprived of their right to work in Israel, the atmosphere of horror in Israel, and chaos in the Palestinian territories. As a consequence of the Oslo agreements, mutual hatred today is much stronger than in 1993, and real peace looks even more unattainable.

The Laureates Nelson Mandela and Frederic Willem de Klerk joined their efforts and put an end to the regime of apartheid. They became heroes in the eyes of all “progressive people”. Today the standard of living among most of the black population in SAR is lower than ten years ago. Crime, violence and vandalism reign in the country. The white minority, who produce much of the GDP, continue to leave the country.

Americans agree that the time of the Nobel Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter was one of the most gloomy and shameful pages of the American history. He managed to destroy everything he touched. The economic crisis, the treachery against the Shah and the subsequent disaster in Iran, the Soviet intrusion into Afghanistan, flirting with Fidel Castro's one-party authoritarian state, sympathizing with the "Red Khmers" and the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu were the features of the policy of this “starry-eyed peacemaker”.

Barack Obama is now in this list of peacemakers. He has three years, a lot of time for peacemaking. But after that will the world be razed to the ground?

Alexander Maistrovoy is a journalist for the Russian-language Israeli newspaper Novosty.



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