A number of bloggers have noticed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize.
I would have thought it was absurd, because
1) He is a doctor of Holocaust denial.
2) He provided the funding for the Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972
3) He never took a position in opposition to Arafat’s orchestration of violence against Israel after Oslo.
4) He rejected an offer of peace from Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.
5) Even now he is “throwing a pie” at President Obama and refusing to engage in direct negotiations with Binyamin Netanyahu.
Since I first saw stories about this during the past week or so, I assumed this initiative was new. It isn’t. While I don’t know the provenance of this, there’s a Facebook page, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas ‘Abu Mazen’ for the Nobel Peace Prize.
If Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin deserved this prize, how many of this prize do you think a REAL seeker of peace deserves?
To which Weasel Zipper would respond:
And why not? They gave one to Obama for doing nothing, one to Al Gore for creating a money-making hysteria and one to Yasser Arafat for killing Jews…
In order to promote his candidacy the Facebook page has an album showing Abbas with many world leaders. No, there is no picture of him with Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert or Binyamin Netanyahu. But there is a picture of him with an indicted war criminal.
Last year an editorial in the Washington Post observed:
“We must also take a decisive stance of solidarity alongside fraternal Sudan and President Omar al-Bashir,” said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr. Abbas is hoping that the Obama administration will pressure Israel to stop building “illegal” settlements in the West Bank; the next time he utters the phrase “double standard” in the presence of a U.S. diplomat, we suggest a query about Mr. Bashir.
If you’re trying to make the case that your guy deserves the Nobel PEACE Prize, showing him cozying up to the Butcher of Darfur is probably not the best idea.
Really, I have no idea how official this Facebook page is. Still the message it promotes is at once absurd and revolting. On the other hand Yasser Arafat did win the Nobel Peace Prize so perhaps I shouldn’t dismiss it.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Actually, I hope he gets it. The prize has for years been a political statement rather than having much to do with actual peace. It seems to me that the quintessence of what the prize has become would be giving it to Abbas. Besides, Dad, to many of the people proposing he get it, I don’t think Jew-Killing is a problem. They may not condone it but they “understand” why others would.
I just shared your ‘link’-with a Cubbie Cap tip to you with the FB group I’m active in.
Since It’s made up of Hot Air people I’m sure that Abbas page is in for a rude awakening.
Heheheh!
There’s nothing “official” about anything on FB. But why not give Abbas the prize? It has devolved into a complete joke, so we may as well go all the way.