Why a lot of rotten people win the Nobel Prize
1. In 1964 when Jean-Paul Sartre was given the Nobel Prize for literature, the French author and leftist icon rejected the award, saying it was “an honour restricted to Western writers and Eastern rebels”.
1. In 1964 when Jean-Paul Sartre was given the Nobel Prize for literature, the French author and leftist icon rejected the award, saying it was “an honour restricted to Western writers and Eastern rebels”.
2. Just as entry to elite universities is not always based on merit, Nobel winners are not always deserving of honour. In fact, the Nobel Academy has admitted its decisions are marked by ideological bias. "Awarding a Peace Prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act.”
3. The mutation of peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai from a critic of the Pakistan Taliban’s misogynistic laws to a mouthpiece of the Pakistan Army and the very Islamist forces that tried to kill her, is a pointer to the bad picks – and misses – of the Nobel Academy.
4. Many people of British origin living in different parts of the world today owe their existence to MK Gandhi because he prevented the Indian revolutionaries from massacring their forefathers – the 100,000-odd British soldiers, bureaucrats and civilians ruling India.
5. But Norway – which annually awards the Nobel Peace Prize – did not want to ruffle any feathers in Britain by honouring Gandhi. It was a clear case of racial solidarity. Considered the home of the Germanic people, Norway enjoys very close relations with Britain.
6. In 1972 the peace prize should have gone to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Firstly she had ended the genocide of Bengalis in East Pakistan, where three million of them had been killed by the Pakistan Army in a short span of eight months during the previous year.
7. TIME magazine quoted a US official admitting that what the Bengalis had endured was “the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland”.
8. Secondly, Mrs Gandhi prevented the massacre of 93,000 Pakistani soldiers who had surrendered to the Indian Army. She evacuated them out of East Pakistan, preventing their killings by vengeful Bengali guerrillas. Since she had defeated a Western ally, the Nobel was denied.
9. However, Norway had no problems awarding the peace prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973. There is a special place in hell for Kissinger, the US Secretary of State, who was responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
10. During the 1971 Christmas bombing – Operation Linebacker – American bombers dropped 20,000 tons of explosives on North Vietnam. During Linebacker and a bombing campaign preceding it, the US dropped a total of 155,237 tons of bombs on N Vietnam, killing thousands of civilians.
11. American satirist Tom Lehrer commented: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
12. Kissinger was a serial offender. Just two years earlier, he had winked at Pakistan’s massacre of nearly three million Bengalis, mostly Hindus, in East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh). He had described Indians as “bastards” for putting an end to the genocide.
13. The devious Norwegians were red faced when North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho, who was jointly awarded the prize, declined it, saying peace in Vietnam was a big lie. Kissinger had no such scruples and accepted the prize “with humility”.
14. In 1994 the peace prize was awarded to three people jointly – Yasser Arafat, the head of the terrorist outfit Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
15. Imagine that - the head of a jehadi terrorist group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the peace prize committee members, Kare Kristiansen, resigned in protest at the honour given to Arafat, whom he described as “too tainted by violence, terror and torture”.
16. In 2009 the peace prize went to US President Barrack Obama even as he was ramping up the war in Afghanistan, and in 2012 to the European Union after it had bombed and destroyed Libya. The Nobel awards committee basically gave its tacit approval for war.
17. The awarding of the peace prize to warring leaders who had killed thousands was almost Orwellian. Russian channel RT commented: ‘‘Sometimes the makers of permanent war are awarded for bringing temporary peace.’’
18. Obama wasn’t the first US president with a penchant for war to be honoured by the Nobel Academy. In the exact same year he became a Nobel Laureate, Theodore Roosevelt showed his determination to see the US as a great power using military force, primarily in the Caribbean.
19. Many American newspapers found the award curious, and The New York Times later commented that “a broad smile illuminated the face of the globe when the prize was awarded … to the most warlike citizen of these United States’’.
20. Woodrow Wilson was awarded the peace prize in 1919 for his sponsorship of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the UN. But this US President was a white supremacist whose administration wreaked havoc on the govt careers of thousands of African Americans in the 1910s.
21. Another nasty character honoured by the Norwegians was Cordell Hull. The American, who received the peace prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, was directly responsible for condemning hundreds of Jews to the Holocaust.
22. In what is known as the St Louis crisis, in June 1939, Hull, a hard core Christian, threatened to withdraw support to US President Franklin Roosevelt if the ship SS St Louis, carrying 950 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, was allowed to dock in an American port.
23. Lobbying by Hull, and the Christian Right, ensured the Jewish refugees were not allowed to enter the US but had to return to Europe, where the Germans desptached more than a quarter of them to the gas chambers.
24. In 2013 the West had wanted to bomb Syria into the Stone Age, but it was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forceful intervention that averted war in the Middle East. But Putin is not a Westerner nor an Eastern rebel so he didn’t fit the bill.
25. While European ethnocentrism is at work in the fields of science and literature, in peace a deciding factor is Norway’s geopolitical tilt. As a NATO member Norway reflects the prejudices that are inevitable because of the country’s entanglement in the military alliance.
26. Francis Sejersted, ex chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said: “The Prize … is not only for past achievement…. The Committee also takes the possible positive effects of its choices into account… Awarding a Peace Prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act.”
27. Impact of the Nobel Peace Prize. In a detailed study, University of Minnesota professor Ronald R. Krebs says the peace prize has more often brought the heavy hand of the State down on dissidents and has impeded, rather than promoted, conflict-free liberalisation.
28. The Dalai Lama was awarded the prize in 1989. Between November 1989 and April 1990, the Chinese executed 2,000 Tibetans. It was a clear message from China to the West: we won’t be bullied, so don’t ever piss us off.
29. India should make it illegal for its citizens to accept foreign awards, incl Nobels. The West rarely honours Indians who do good work for India. Their agenda is to groom urban naxals, leftists, communist sympathisers, jehadis and other traitors who aim to break India.
30. Any Indian citizen who accepts a foreign award should get 30 years in prison. His passport must be cancelled and his family disbarred from govt jobs. To deter Norway from awarding the Prize symbolically to Indians, Norwegians can be banned from India and their embassy closed.
31. People are also questioning the very raison d’etre of the Nobels, which ironically rest on the foundations of war. The awards are the legacy of Alfred Nobel, a weapons magnate and the inventor of dynamite.
32. Among the tens of millions that his invention killed include his own brother. Therefore, Alfred’s primary motive in establishing the academy was to repair his family’s dented image with a huge show of philanthropy.
Ends. Info from my 2019 article:
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Ends. Info from my 2019 article:
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