"Laureate urges focus on Mideast; Make it a priority, he tells Obama" by Doug Mellgren and Karl Ritter, Associated Press | December 11, 2008
OSLO - Finnish mediator Martti Ahtisaari accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize with a plea to President-elect Barack Obama: Start pressing for Middle East peace as soon as you can.
Receiving the coveted award in Oslo, the former Finnish president rejected the notion that "the Middle East knot can never be untied" and criticized world leaders - as well as the Israelis and Palestinians - for letting the violence continue.
"The international community and those in power are sitting there letting them destroy each other," Ahtisaari, 71, told the Associated Press in an interview before yesterday's prize ceremony....
Please tell me he didn't just equate Israeli and Palestinian suffering and deaths.
Excuse me, sir, but WHO is destroying WHOM? There is only ONE SIDE that is being DESTROYED!!!
Aaaaah, wrong guy won anyway!
Here is who SHOULD have WON: 9/11 and the Nobel Peace Prize
