From Tom Sullivan and others: give peace prize to Arafat
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From Tom Sullivan (via Rush Limbaugh radio show) and others he referenced in first hour programming today on the Rush Limbaugh radio show:
Give Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize ... for dieing.
Hearing this on the radio, I was struck the by the delicious irony of the commentary.
The comments are dead on. Yassar Arafat has done so much more for the middle east peace process -- by dieing -- than he ever did while walking this Earth.
Since Arafat's dead, and Abbas's election to the role of president of Palestine, the peace process between Palestine and Israel has moved at virtual light speed. Fences are coming down, literally. Land will be given back to the Palestinians, and, in the future, we may see real and lasting peace between these parties that couldn't have even been imagined in the not so distant past.
It is ironic that it took the death of this terrorist to bring about these changes.
The other alternative tossed around as potential winner of the peace prize, at least by Sullivan via the radio show, is the Iraqi people, many of whom showed incredible bravery and dedication by showing up and voting in the recent elections in that country. In a just world, this is where the prize would go, and certainly the comments about Arafat are made in a jestful manner, but in the end, neither are likely to recieve the prize, as neither would fit the liberal political agenda that usually goes along with the Nobel prize.
Give Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize ... for dieing.
Hearing this on the radio, I was struck the by the delicious irony of the commentary.
The comments are dead on. Yassar Arafat has done so much more for the middle east peace process -- by dieing -- than he ever did while walking this Earth.
Since Arafat's dead, and Abbas's election to the role of president of Palestine, the peace process between Palestine and Israel has moved at virtual light speed. Fences are coming down, literally. Land will be given back to the Palestinians, and, in the future, we may see real and lasting peace between these parties that couldn't have even been imagined in the not so distant past.
It is ironic that it took the death of this terrorist to bring about these changes.
The other alternative tossed around as potential winner of the peace prize, at least by Sullivan via the radio show, is the Iraqi people, many of whom showed incredible bravery and dedication by showing up and voting in the recent elections in that country. In a just world, this is where the prize would go, and certainly the comments about Arafat are made in a jestful manner, but in the end, neither are likely to recieve the prize, as neither would fit the liberal political agenda that usually goes along with the Nobel prize.