Post by Paddy by Grace on Oct 14, 2009 8:11:10 GMT -7
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Polish woman who rescued 2500 Jews from Nazis passed over in favor of Al Gore in 2007
by Bill Levinson
If Alfred Nobel were still alive, he would probably revoke the peace prize that bears his name, or retract permission for his name to be used in conjunction with this award. The committee whose responsibility is to administer Nobel’s legacy has turned the Nobel Peace Prize into a sick joke, a sideshow freak act that goes so far as to honor the world’s most violent and vicious criminals as well as individuals with no identifiable achievements in the promotion of world peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is now something that might fall out of anybody’s Cracker Jack box.
Here is a list of the people and organizations that were passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of individuals with no achievements whatsoever in bringing peace to any part of the world, helping people resolve conflicts, or similar activities. Barack Obama, in fact, deserves credit for admitting that he does not really know why he was selected.
1994 Nobel Peace Prize: Yasser Arafat
Two major incidents occurred in 1972. The Fatah subgroup Black September hijacked a Sabena flight en route to Vienna and forced it to land at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel.[28] The PFLP and the Japanese Red Army carried out a shooting rampage at the same airport, killing twenty-four civilians.[28][29] Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani was a response to the PFLP’s involvement in masterminding the latter attack. Two days later, various PLO factions retaliated by bombing a bus station, killing eleven civilians.[28]
At the Munich Olympic Games, Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes.[30] A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh (Abu Daoud), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations. According to Abu Daoud’s 1999 book, “Arafat was briefed on plans for the Munich hostage-taking.”
2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Given to Al Gore for his self-promoting and self-enriching global warming fraud, and for his self-enriching entertainment products Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007: Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground …in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other ?egota members, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the Ghetto.
Passed over for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in favor of Barack Obama
Dr. Denis Mukwege
Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. Working in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Congolese militia, Mukwege has probably become the world’s leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape.[1] He has treated 21,000 women during the Congo’s 12-year war, some of them more than once, performing up to 10 surgeries a day during his 18-hour working days.
Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan:
Dr. Samar publicly refuses to accept that women must be kept in purdah (secluded from the public) and speaks out against the wearing of the burqa (head-to-foot wrap), which was enforced first by the fundamentalist mujahideen and then by the Taliban. She also has drawn attention to the fact that many women in Afghanistan suffer from osteomalacia, a softening of the bones, due to an inadequate diet. Wearing the burqa reduces exposure to sunlight and aggravates the situation for women suffering from osteomalacia.
Hu Jia
Hu Jia is an activist and dissident in the People’s Republic of China. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People’s Republic of China. …For his activism, Hu has received awards from several European bodies, such as the Paris City Council[1] and the European Parliament, which awarded its Human Rights prize to him in December 2008.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition
We do not agree with the Cluster Munition Coalition’s agenda of banning cluster munitions, which are used by the Armed Forces of the United States. Our understanding is that American munitions of this nature comply with the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and may even include bright warning flags to alert civilians to the possible presence of unexploded munitions. The truth is that unexploded munitions have been problems for more than a century. “UXB” (Unexploded Bomb) is still a menace in England because of the Luftwaffe’s activities during the Second World War, and probably in Germany as well. There are still places in Europe where an unwary person might be killed by something that was fired during the First World War, and even dangerous leftovers from the American Civil War have been discovered. The United States is moving to improve the safety of its cluster munitions by reducing the number of submunitions that fail to explode. Nonetheless, the Cluster Munition Coalition deserves recognition for drawing attention to this problem.
Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document Fifth Modernization on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
SOS-Kinderdorf International
SOS Children’s Villages is an international non-governmental social development organisation that has been active in the field of children’s rights and committed to children’s needs and concerns since 1949. In 132 countries and territories our activities focus on children without parental care and children of families in difficult circumstances.
Polish woman who rescued 2500 Jews from Nazis passed over in favor of Al Gore in 2007
by Bill Levinson
If Alfred Nobel were still alive, he would probably revoke the peace prize that bears his name, or retract permission for his name to be used in conjunction with this award. The committee whose responsibility is to administer Nobel’s legacy has turned the Nobel Peace Prize into a sick joke, a sideshow freak act that goes so far as to honor the world’s most violent and vicious criminals as well as individuals with no identifiable achievements in the promotion of world peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is now something that might fall out of anybody’s Cracker Jack box.
Here is a list of the people and organizations that were passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of individuals with no achievements whatsoever in bringing peace to any part of the world, helping people resolve conflicts, or similar activities. Barack Obama, in fact, deserves credit for admitting that he does not really know why he was selected.
1994 Nobel Peace Prize: Yasser Arafat
Two major incidents occurred in 1972. The Fatah subgroup Black September hijacked a Sabena flight en route to Vienna and forced it to land at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel.[28] The PFLP and the Japanese Red Army carried out a shooting rampage at the same airport, killing twenty-four civilians.[28][29] Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani was a response to the PFLP’s involvement in masterminding the latter attack. Two days later, various PLO factions retaliated by bombing a bus station, killing eleven civilians.[28]
At the Munich Olympic Games, Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes.[30] A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh (Abu Daoud), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations. According to Abu Daoud’s 1999 book, “Arafat was briefed on plans for the Munich hostage-taking.”
2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Given to Al Gore for his self-promoting and self-enriching global warming fraud, and for his self-enriching entertainment products Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007: Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground …in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other ?egota members, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the Ghetto.
Passed over for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in favor of Barack Obama
Dr. Denis Mukwege
Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. Working in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Congolese militia, Mukwege has probably become the world’s leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape.[1] He has treated 21,000 women during the Congo’s 12-year war, some of them more than once, performing up to 10 surgeries a day during his 18-hour working days.
Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan:
Dr. Samar publicly refuses to accept that women must be kept in purdah (secluded from the public) and speaks out against the wearing of the burqa (head-to-foot wrap), which was enforced first by the fundamentalist mujahideen and then by the Taliban. She also has drawn attention to the fact that many women in Afghanistan suffer from osteomalacia, a softening of the bones, due to an inadequate diet. Wearing the burqa reduces exposure to sunlight and aggravates the situation for women suffering from osteomalacia.
Hu Jia
Hu Jia is an activist and dissident in the People’s Republic of China. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People’s Republic of China. …For his activism, Hu has received awards from several European bodies, such as the Paris City Council[1] and the European Parliament, which awarded its Human Rights prize to him in December 2008.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition
We do not agree with the Cluster Munition Coalition’s agenda of banning cluster munitions, which are used by the Armed Forces of the United States. Our understanding is that American munitions of this nature comply with the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and may even include bright warning flags to alert civilians to the possible presence of unexploded munitions. The truth is that unexploded munitions have been problems for more than a century. “UXB” (Unexploded Bomb) is still a menace in England because of the Luftwaffe’s activities during the Second World War, and probably in Germany as well. There are still places in Europe where an unwary person might be killed by something that was fired during the First World War, and even dangerous leftovers from the American Civil War have been discovered. The United States is moving to improve the safety of its cluster munitions by reducing the number of submunitions that fail to explode. Nonetheless, the Cluster Munition Coalition deserves recognition for drawing attention to this problem.
Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document Fifth Modernization on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
SOS-Kinderdorf International
SOS Children’s Villages is an international non-governmental social development organisation that has been active in the field of children’s rights and committed to children’s needs and concerns since 1949. In 132 countries and territories our activities focus on children without parental care and children of families in difficult circumstances.