Ha'aretz - Akiva Eldar
The torrent of scorn one hears in Israel about U.S. President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize Committee's decision to award him the peace prize is more mockery than anything else.
Three Israelis have been awarded the esteemed prize: Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. What has become of them? The first isolated himself after getting Israel stuck in the Lebanese quagmire, the second was murdered by a Jewish fanatic who paved the way for a right-wing government, and the third, the "architect of Oslo," became the national cheerleader of the occupation.
...We are the last ones who should complain about the inaction of foreigners in anything that has to do with our conflict. One needs considerable Jewish chutzpah to elect a right-wing government and then expect the goyim to rescue us from it. Full story