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| Report: Abbas wants Nobel Prize |
| 2010-07-08 |
| [Ma'an] President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to persuade the Nobel committee to award him the Peace Prize, Israeli media reported Wednesday. Unnamed diplomatic sources in Oslo revealed Abbas has recruited mediators, including the PLO's Jerusalem affairs chief Ahmed Qrei'a, to convince the committee to grant him the prize, Israeli news site Ynet said. Former recipients of the prestigious award include late Fatah leader Yasser Arafat, late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Barack Obama, and Israeli President Shimon Peres. The names of nominees are kept secret for fifty years, so rumors pertaining to announce nominations are purely speculative. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Forgot to include the ONE. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-08 22:16 |
| #11 The Nobel Prize has come to mean nothing. Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, The UN, Jimmy Carter. If this yoyo gets it, it will follow in the recent tradition of meaning nothing. In fact it will mean less than nothing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-08 22:16 |
| #10 awarded "most reliable |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-08 20:52 |
| #9 I'm still campaigning for Obama to win the Cy Young and the Heisman trophy, and I'm still hopeful. |
| Posted by: Grunter in Sydney 2010-07-08 20:50 |
| #8 Hell, I want the Nobel, I haven't done anything either so I qualify Just as much as Obama does |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-08 17:37 |
| #7 I hear they are giving away a Nobel Peace Prize with every purchase of a can Norwegian Mackerel. Suggest Abbas smuggle in a case so every member of the Fatah cabinet can have their own. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-07-08 08:36 |
| #6 Unlikely to happen. The US President needs another boost, this time the first year double, peace and economics. Next year peace and literature. Finally he retires the peace prize and begins to consider The Americas Cup and how shabbily they have treated people who lack racing yachts. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Shick7973 2010-07-08 07:13 |
| #5 I had a thought similar to Gorb's - if Obama can get one for doing nothing, why not Abbas? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-07-08 06:07 |
| #4 I'm sure he wants the check more than the prize. Maybe not. The prize would be a huge PR coup. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-07-08 05:24 |
| #3 Abbas wants Nobel Prize Why not. I heard they started giving them away in early 2009. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-08 03:19 |
| #2 The names of nominees are kept secret for fifty years ????????????? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-08 02:49 |
| #1 I'm sure he wants the check more than the prize. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-08 01:38 |