"In the end, the
triumphant nations will always control the destinies of those they defeat!! And
we Arabs and Muslims will always be 'terrorists' and 'murderers!!' And whatever
they do, they'll always be doves and birds of peace!!!"
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoen Jagland, shocks the world and apparently the U.S. president himself, by announcing that Barack Obama is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
News of President Obama's 2009
Nobel Peace Prize win brought to mind the last century after the October War
[aka/Yom Kipper War, 1973] when peace talks took place between Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat
and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Kissinger was in Cairo and attending
a party organized in his honor at which the main attraction was famed belly dancer
Suhair Zaki [video
below]. Poet Filah Askar is said to have wondered: "If Sadat is the peace hero and Kissinger the peace prophet,
wouldn't Suhair Zaki be the peace dove?"
Since Suhair Zaki
retired from dancing years ago, the title "Dove
of Peace," which was given to
her by the poet who was later found murdered with his tongue cut out - had been dormant
until Obama came along to fill the vacuum in a world clouded by the prospects
of war. Now that the respected Norwegian Academy, at rocket speed, has paid
tribute to him with the most distinguished peace award in the world just nine
months after he took office - and at a time when it's hard to make sense of which
warring side is actually at fault - he's deserving of the title "Bird of Peace"!!
[Editor's Note: The Poet Filah Askar was kidnapped by Iraqi Shiite rebels during the 1991 uprising against Saddam in the pro-Iran south, then tortured, having his tongue cut out and then executed by an angry mob. He was pro-Saddam and wrote poems praising his "great achievements." In one of his poems, he wrote of Saddam, "He is the holy bread on our table," and denigrating Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. He was accused of being "the voice of Saddam's regime."]
It seems like the Norwegian Academy
had become enamored with the notion "your
intentions are your actions." And
because Obama has made a project of cooling down the raging American bull, the
Academy rushed to court him! Not because he did anything in particular, but
because he "intends" and more than that, he "lit the candle of hope" according to IAEA chief Mohammad
ElBaradei. How hard it would be to live without the comfort of hope!!!
In the same way that America
fought Iraq "thinking" it possessed weapons of mass destruction,
it has now become a dove of peace because it "intends" to create
peace on Earth!!
Obama has given
us reason for hope so he deserves the Nobel prize - but when one considers America's "suspicions" of some countries and good "intentions" toward others, it's hard not to conclude that the U.S. rules
the world!!
The truth is that I'm not biased
against Obama. I admire his vision although much of it is unknown, despite
media coverage and White House press statements - and even while its armies continue
to wreak havoc in the lands of Iraq and Afghanistan and other areas of the
world, which have been marked with "Jeha’s
nail" [see below] when it builds military bases wherever
it pleases.
[Jeha's Nail:
Jeha is a figure from Arabic folklore. One story about him is that he sold his
house for a ridiculously low price. But he had one condition; 'on one of the
walls there is a nail I don't want to sell."
The buyer agreed; after all, what did he need the nail for? After a few days,
Jeha came back to the house "to visit his nail." He soon hung his coat on it, then brought his bed and began
sleeping there to stay close to his nail. Then he brought his family to visit his
nail … In the end, the only way the new owner could get rid of him was to buy
the nail for a price many times higher than that of the house. The author is comparing U.S. military bases to Jeha's nail].
Shouldn't the Norwegian Academy
have waited long enough to "differentiate
between the white and the black thread"
[see clearly whether Obama deserves it - see below] so he could earn and deserve the
prize, especially since he has yet to apologize for America’s crimes, from the bombing
Hiroshima and the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians all the way up to
its crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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[Differentiating
Between the White and the Black Thread: A popular Arabic saying
which means that one should not make decisions during the night (when things
aren't clear) but wait until dawn (when they are), so there is enough light to
differentiate between black and white.]
So let’s set
aside any apologies [Obama has made]. Those are all well and good, as they indicate
a humanitarian and ethical dimension. But has he criticized the policy of
violence America has followed since its uni-power hegemony over the neck of the
world began after the collapse of the Socialist camp [end of the Cold War]? Hasn’t
he recently declared that he's considering an increase in the number of U.S.
forces in Afghanistan?
I totally agree
with Heineman Schroeder, researcher at Bonn’s Institute for International Studies
and an expert on peace issues, when he said, "In the brief period he's been in office, the American president
has been able to achieve an improvement in the international environment. But he
has yet to show any success regarding the Iranian and North Korean nuclear
programs, Afghanistan or the Middle East, not to mention relations with Russia.
[unable to confirm the name Heinemann Schroeder or Bonn's Institute for
International Studies].
In the end, the triumphant
nations control the destinies of those they defeat!! And we Arabs and Muslims
will always be "terrorists" and "murderers!!"
And whatever they do, they'll always be doves and birds of peace!!!
