Why all the derisive comments about the Nobel Prize, and Yasser Arafat’s rightful place in history as a man who abandoned violence in favor of diplomacy? If Henry Kissinger could win this prize, then the bar was already set pretty low. Let is remember that Manachem Begin too (winner in the late 1970s), was a former terrorist. I agree the Obama’s selection is puzzling. But he’s not at fault for using the award and the platform to demonstrate that the US is on the path of a new direction, instead of bloody, unwinnable, wars which are bankrupting the nation.