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To: BigBull who wrote (23635)	4/5/2002 7:39:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Nobel Prize committee regrets giving the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to...Shimon Peres. From opinionjournal.com: Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. Now some people want to take it back. RevokethePrize.org claims it has more than 200,000 "signatures" on an online petition, which it says it will forward to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which administers the peace prize. Dozens of readers have e-mailed us about this site (which we actually noted way back in August). Well, allow us to go on the record as strongly opposing the revocation of Arafat's Nobel. It would deprive us of one of our best lines, and if that happens, the terrorists will have won. Besides, as even RevokethePrize concedes, a Nobel Prize cannot be revoked--a fact that is causing members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to despair. It turns out they regret having awarded the Peace Prize in 1994--to Shimon Peres, then as now Israel's foreign minister, who received it along with Arafat and then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "Yes, I wish it was possible that we could recall the prize," Hanna Kvanmo tells Agence France-Presse. "What is happening today in Palestine is grotesque and unbelievable. Peres is responsible, as part of the government. He has expressed his agreement with what [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is doing. If he had not agreed with Sharon, then he would have withdrawn from the government." Kvanmo still approves of Rabin, who has the virtue of being dead. And neither she nor any of the other Nobel committeemen quoted have a word to say against Nobel laureate Yasser Arafat's instigation and toleration of terrorism. Perhaps the Palestinian strongman won the Peace Prize because he's helped so many Jews rest in peace. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post reports that Camp Norge, Norway's second-largest grocery chain, is boycotting Israeli products. "Israel isn't a big import country for us, but a boycott has great symbolic value," says the chain's managing director, the delightfully named Bernt Aas.