The Prize as Propaganda: President Obama and Amira Hass

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 9, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/629/prize-propaganda-president-obama-amira-hass

Excerpt:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
…And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats wrote The Second Coming just after the first World War but it is an apt commentary on almost everything, including President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and Amira Hass's upcoming Courage in Journalism Award.

Unsurprisingly, one of four Courage in Journalism awards to be presented by Christiane Amanpour and Irshad Manjie, among others, will go to the Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, whose critique of Israel constitutes a veritable Blood libel. Hass describes Israel as an "apartheid" state. Her columns in Ha'aretz, a left-leaning Israeli newspaper, are often stomach-turning.

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