Sparhawk

No, it's actually a pretty disingenuous point: Arafat won the prize in 1994 along with Shimon Peres and Yitzak Rabin for all the work they had done in the previous several years, leading to the Oslo Accords, an important step in the peace process. The Nobel Prize committee certainly wouldn't have given him the prize if they had known he would launch the "intifada" 7 years later.

Also, over a hundred nominees are named every year, and every year this subject comes up, ie "Why are these people on the list"? Please remember: they aren't the winners, they are just the nominees.

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