Again, when when Republicans bash Arafat that won his Nobel with Peres in 1994, do they know their facts?

Question

Just like bashing Jimmy Carter and his Nobel, their basic lack of understanding and education of the world fails them.

Arafat and Peres won a Nobel in 1994 for the Oslo Peace Accords. Though far from perfect, it was the first real attempt to bring peace between Isreal and Palestine.

Many of the concepts of Oslo is still in effect today, including the basic, yet simple idea of two nations sharing the land of Abraham. It is the only way to acheive true peace in Isreal, while avoiding war.

Yes, Arafat was a terrorist, but near the end, renounced violence, and even lead the effort to have Isreal acknowledged as a nation by the PLO.

Those poor Republicans....they bash and get angry, but if they recieved a proper historical education....they'd know what they were talking about it.

Answer 1

It is a typical tactic of republicans attack others before we get attacked. Sadly there is hardly any reasoning behind their attacks.
Edit: Ret_Roch_cop what about all the people who have resigned in this adminstration? Do you think that means that there is something wrong? And Fawn you are so out of touch with reality i don't think there is any saving you. To say Jimmy Carter only won the Nobel Prize to get at Pres. Bush. I thought most repubs were crackheads but you take the cake.

Answer 2

Anthony, you keep bragging about that you are an educated liberal and preach "knowing the facts", but then when someone shows you facts you don't like, you just blow them off. I know some wimpy little answer that agrees with you will get your vote, but I can live with that. It fits you.

Okay, you want facts, here are the facts.

Arafat was one of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. There was a deal in the offing and the Nobel committee was trying to encourage the completion of the deal. What did Arafat do after he won? He proceeded to sabotage the deal that was on the table by asking for more. Did he sabotage the deal? Well, there is no peace.

And you say Arafat renounced violence? What?!? My friend, actions speak so much louder than words. He was afraid of the hard-liners and so he did what so many in the Middle East do. He said one thing to the Americans, but another to his people. His people kept blowing up Israelis. Hmmm. I wonder what he was saying to them?

Former President Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize. I think that says more about the Nobel committee than it does about the former President. Why did he win? A couple of the voters said they chose President Carter because they wanted to send a message to President Bush. So if you think about it, those committee members weren't voting for President Carter, they were voting against President Bush.

Problem: President Bush's name wasn't on the ballot and they weren't able vote against him, so they did the next best thing. So did President Carter really earn that Prize? Well, ask yourself this question and then answer truthfully, if Al Gore would have been President, is it possible those committee members would have voted for someone else? Sure, they wouldn't have felt they needed to send a message to a liberal President.

You end up your statement's post question with this, "Those poor Republicans....they bash and get angry, but if they recieved a proper historical education....they'd know what they were talking about it."

My answer to that is this list: Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, John Ashcroft, Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Fred Thompson (and his trophy? wife), Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Dan Quayle, Sam Alito, John Engler, Ward Connerly, Joe Lieberman, General Petraeus, Alberto Gonzales, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Laura Ingraham, David Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Walter Williams, etc.

The above are the people the left bash consistently. And of course, there are many more.

Conclusion: Arafat snubbed his nose at the Nobel Prize by reverting to his old ways right after he won. The Nobel Committee lost some credibility by admitting some of their people voted for President Carter not because he deserved it, but because they wanted to "embarrass" President Bush.
AND, you really have to stop complaining about the right bashing the left. Look at the names above and you will see that is the pot calling the kettle ... Better stop there, somebody might say I'm racist. I'm not. Imagine that, a conservative who is not racist. Oh, there are blacks in that list of conservatives.

Love ya, cutie.

Answer 3

The Republicans took over a million living house of Congress in 2010, compared to 1994. bill Clinton worked with Republicans. Obama belittles Republicans. bill Clinton ruled from the middle. Obama governs from the some distance left. I predict a Romney landslide.

Answer 4

LOL! Such condescending arrogance.
Arafat was one thing....a terrorist leader.
It just goes to show that you Libs truly do side with terrorists. That's why the Islamic Jihadists were rooting for a LibDem win in '06 because they know it to be true.

Answer 5

The far right just likes to label people and dismiss anyone who doesn’t fit within their narrow ideological concepts. The Nobel Peace prize was jointly awarded to Arafat, Peres and Rabin for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. The people who simply label Arafat as a terrorist and then just dismiss the prize display a lack of understanding of the situation in the Middle East and the efforts that were being made at the time.

Answer 6

Again your historically accurate counterpoint to Republican rhetoric and misunderstanding is commendable. However, as I answered your last question, concerning their misunderstanding, I think the Republican’s fallacious positions concerning the Middle East are not purely the result of just being innocently ignorant of history, but of willfully ignoring history, and having the sincere desire to perpetuate war and conflict at all costs.

This desire for escalating conflict is founded purely in their aim to increase the expansion of American business in the region, in the forms of weapons sales, oil profiteering, and an increase in the ever growing enterprise of providing private security services to businesses.

As to the latter business venture of catering to the security needs of businesses in the Middle East, just look up the book called “Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army” by Jeremy Scahill. It’s a book that provides almost incontrovertible proof that Dwight Eisenhower’s prescient comments about the “military industrial complex” are coming to pass, and it being brought about by Neoconservatives.

Answer 7

Anyone who believes that Arafat denounced violence is delusional. He was behind half the murders in Palestine. Big Deal, the Oslo Accords; yet another failed effort to get the killing to stop. Let's balance that with Arafat wearing a gun on his hip while he was addressing the UN. I think it's you who doesn't know the truth, or refuses to recognize it.

Carter deserves all the bashing he gets. He screwed up a whole lot of lives with his inept management and he's just far too arrogant to admit it. Why do you suppose all the Directors of the Carter Center resigned? Do you think that they might know a little bit more about him than you do?

Answer 8

What bothers most people is that such a great honor is bestowed upon a one year event in a person's life to make the world better, yet no consideration is given to the person's true character or motives.

Answer 9

Arafat at the same time he was denouncing violence in English he was calling for it in Arabic. All you have to do is look at the textbooks he called for and had printed for Palestinian children to study full of falsehoods to prove this.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 10

Many of the 'Pubs on YA know the facts; however, since the facts are not in their favor, they resort to denying the facts unfavorable to them, and bashing.

It's unfortunate. This could be a forum for sharing and contrasting ideas on an intellectual level; instead, many of the 'Pubs use this forum to merely bash anyone who does not subscribe to their beliefs.