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.