Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
10 December
NOBEL PEACE PRIZES FOR ETHNIC CLEANSERS
On this day in 1994, Rabin, Peres and Arafat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Rabin and Peres were serially guilty of war crimes - aggressive wars of invasion and ethnic cleansing. In 1948 and again in 1967, Rabin ordered the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In 1988 he commanded his soldiers to maim Palestinians who were slow to obey them, ordering the soldiers to literally “break their bones”. Peres once offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa and supervised the deliberate massacre of Lebanese civilians at Qana.
جوائز نوبل للسلام لمنفذي التطهير العرقي
10 ديسمبر
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1994 ، مُنح رابين وبيريز وعرفات جائزة نوبل للسلام. كان رابين وبيريز مذنبين بارتكاب جرائم حرب بشكل متسلسل - حروب عدوانية من الغزو والتطهير العرقي. في عام 1948 ومرة أخرى في عام 1967 ، أمر رابين بالتطهير العرقي للفلسطينيين. في عام 1988 أمر جنوده بتشويه الفلسطينيين لعدم طاعتهم للاحتلال، وأمر "بكسر عظامهم". عرض بيريز ذات مرة بيع الأسلحة النووية الإسرائيلة لنظام الفصل العنصري -جنوب افريقيا- وأشرف على مذبحة متعمدة للمدنيين اللبنانيين في قانا
Alfred Bernhard Nobel's premature obituary was possibly what motivated him to create the namesake prizes in order to enhance his legacy. Nobel was the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other explosives and did not have the best public image. In fact, when his brother died, a French newspaper confused him with Alfred and used the headline “The merchant of death is dead.” It then stated that Nobel “became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before.”
The Nobel peace prize is a who’s who of hawks, hypocrites and war criminals.
Chief among these is 1973 recipient Henry Kissinger, recognised for his efforts in negotiating a ceasefire in the Vietnam war. While negotiating that ceasefire, Kissinger was secretly carpet-bombing Cambodia. The worst of his bombing started in February 1973, a month after Washington, Hanoi and Saigon signed the Paris Peace accords. It’s little wonder that Le Duc Tho, the Vietnamese communist leader who was awarded the prize alongside Kissinger, rejected it in disgust.
Kissinger received his Nobel peace prize while he was killing and causing the death of millions, according to the author of a 2015 major work, Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman
Shimon Peres, in the decades before getting the prize,, systematically helped ramp up Israel’s nuclear capabilities – which is completely at odds with the committee’s stipulation that the award should go to those who help demilitarise their country. Two years after the prize, Peres was responsible for a massacre that killed 106 people sheltering in a UN compound in the Lebanese town of Qana.