Yassir Arafat’s plot to get rid of his so-called “Palestinian Prime Minister”, Mahmoud Abbas, has caused further deterioration in the Middle East crises that previously threatened the realization of the “Road Map”.

The dove of peace is already on the butcher’s block.

The unbelievable and cruel paradox is that the butcher who brandishes the axe is the very man who some years ago was awarded the most prestigious peace prize in the world: The Nobel Peace Prize.

I am sorry to ascertain that, unfortunately, all the warnings that led to my resignation from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in l994 have come true.

Arafat is not a peace loving pacifist but a war-monger and a butcher, an ill fortune, both for his own people and for his neighbors.

I have since that time received many requests to take action in order to make the Norwegian Nobel Committee reverse its award and deprive that unworthy terrorist, Arafat, of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Unfortunately, however, Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel explicitly prohibited this line of action in the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation.

However, the present betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize and its purposes is this time so extreme and so cynical that the Norwegian Nobel Committee is forced, out of consideration for political decency and for its own reputation, to find a way to distance itself from its award of 1994.

The only way to obtain this is by publicly deploring the 1994 award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Arafat.

I hereby urgently ask the Norwegian Nobel Committee and its Chairman to do so.

Kaare Kristiansen

Former Norwegian Nobel Committee Member;
Past President, Norwegian Parliament;
Former Norwegian Minister of Oil and Energy;
Founding Chairman, Jerusalem Embassy Initiative, Root & Branch Association, Ltd.

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