Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Pages

• Home
• Photo Gallery
• Advertising
• Comment Rules
• Subscribe to Posts (per post)
• Tikun Olam Store
• Donate
• Subscribe (daily digest)
• Contact
• About
• Monthly archives
• Terms of Use

2 Responses to “The Israeli Right Disses Obama’s Nobel”

1. Zhu Bajie says:

   October 11, 2009 at 8:16 PM

   “This of course, goes to the commonly accepted Israeli right wing notion that the entire world is against and out to get us. ”

   I can assure them that no one in China cares. Most have never heard of Israel.

   As for George Bush, how many of his Israeli supporters know about Dispensationalism, the Rapture, etc.? It’s not a philo-judaic point of view, not really.

   Zhu Bajie

   Reply
2. Marc Silverstein says:

   October 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM

   Michael Moore…

   One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur — and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as “Barack Hussein Obama”!) — is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. ‘Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us — we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans — and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate — we had all seen enough. It was time for change.

   Reply