Obama’s Sincerity wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize                       

US President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on October 09 Friday, ignoring Zionist bogus assertion that there was no chance of a Mideast peace deal for many years. There were a record 205 nominations for this year's prize. Zimbabwe's prime minister and a Chinese dissident had been among the favorites. The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage. The plaudit appeared to be a slap at former President George Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for resorting to largely unilateral military action in the wake of the state sponsored Sept. 11 terror action. The laureate - chosen by a five-member committee - wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m). The prize will be handed over in Oslo on December 10.

Nobel prizes were instituted by Alfred Nobel with the cash earned from trade in dynamites in the wars. In his 1895 will, Alfred stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses." Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.  The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted Obama's efforts to strengthen international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament and said Obama was awarded it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples". The committee said in a statement only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." The Nobel Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. The committee said Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. The committee added that the US under Obama is now playing a more constructive role in meeting "the great climatic challenges" facing the world, and that democracy and human rights would be strengthened.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize though it was not immediately apparent who nominated Obama.  The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president. They all are only raw speculators.

Obama became the fourth US president to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. The other three are: Theodore Roosevelt (1906) 'for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case'  Woodrow Wilson (1919) as 'founder of the League of Nations' while  Jimmy Carter (2002) 'for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development' Roosevelt and Wilson won the honour while in office and Carter 21 years after demitting office in 1981.

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The Prize for 'his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples' was announced in Oslo on 09 October 09. Asked why the prize had been awarded to Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve. It is a clear signal that we want to advocate the same as he has done," he said. He specifically mentioned Obama’s work to strengthen international institutions and work towards a world free of nuclear arms. The statement from the committee also said multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.  

Indeed, the citation indicates that it is President Obama's world view that attracted the Nobel committee - that diplomacy should be founded "on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population".   “Obama has not achieved any results to merit it”. Barack Obama made history on 4 November 2008 when he easily defeated Republican rival John McCain to become the first black president of the United States. He had already broken new ground in his White House campaign, as the first black candidate to become the presidential choice of either major US party. His stirring oratory, combined with an easy charm, won him supporters in the US and admirers across the globe.

When Obama was six, his mother married an Indonesian man and the family moved to Jakarta. Although his father and step-father were Muslim, Obama is a Christian and attended secular and Catholic schools during the four years he lived in Indonesia, a largely Muslim country. In 1988 he left to attend Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After Harvard, Obama returned to Chicago to practice civil rights law, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination. He served in the Illinois state senate from 1996 to 2004. On Capitol Hill, as a senator following his election in 2004, Obama established a firmly liberal voting record, but also worked with Republican colleagues on issues such as HIV/Aids-education and prevention. An early critic of the Iraq war, he spoke out against the prospect of war several months before the March 2003 invasion. His wife Michelle is a lawyer, and they have two young daughters, Malia and Sasha.

Many anti-Obama critics claim it proves the Nobel Peace Prize is a farce. The son of a Kenyan Muslim and a white woman from Kansas, he emphasized his personal history in a speech reflecting traditional American ideals. Obama first came to national prominence when he electrified the 2004 Democratic National Convention in a speech about self-reliance and high aspiration. "Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place - America, which stood as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before," he said. After his landslide US Senate election victory in Illinois a few months later, he became a media darling and one of the most visible figures in Washington, with two best-selling books to his name.

Obama's bid for the presidency was endorsed by such senior Republican figures as former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman for President George W Bush. But to many people, Obama seemed to come from nowhere. Although he had served in the Illinois state senate for eight years, it was only in 2004 that he shot to national prominence, with the speech that stirred the Democratic National Convention. He won the early backing of talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who not only urged him to declare his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on her program but appeared on the campaign trail with him.

And it was only in the two years leading up to the election that his name, face and story became known beyond America. The senator clinched the Democratic nomination after a long and grueling battle against former first lady Hillary Clinton - a contest that gripped the US from January to June 2008. In the course of campaigning, Senator Obama broke all records for fundraising, by harnessing the internet to collect huge numbers of small donations, as well as larger sums from corporate donors. He has also demonstrated the ability to gather crowds of 100,000 people or more to his rallies, and to generate a buzz seldom seen in US politics. Shortly after his presidential victory was confirmed, he addressed a cheering mass in his home city of Chicago.

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The decision to bestow one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, however, has provoked gasps of surprise from journalists at the announcement in Oslo. Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland rejected suggestions from journalists that Obama was getting the prize too early, saying it recognized what he had already done over the past year. Obama laid out his vision on eliminating nuclear arms in a speech in Prague in April. But he was not the first American president to set that goal, and acknowledged it might not be reached in his lifetime.  Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

While the decision won praise from statesmen like Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev, both former Nobel laureates, it was also attacked, especially in parts of the Arab and Muslim world, as hasty and undeserved. "The exciting and important thing about this prize is that it's given too someone ... who has the power to contribute to peace," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said. Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who had been tipped as a favorite for the prize, told Reuters that Obama was a deserving candidate and an "extraordinary example." The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomed the award on behalf of its founder Nelson Mandela, who shared the 1993 Peace Prize with then-South African President F.W. DeKlerk for their efforts at ending years of apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic country.

The background for selecting Obama for the award is Mideast crisis and Palestinians are obviously not happy about the progress the Obama administration has been making on the issue that gives more hopes of Zionist holocausts in Palestine. The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and opposes a peace treaty with Israel, said the award was premature at best.  "Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes."  All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."  The chief Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, however, welcomed the award to Obama and expressed hope that "he will be able to achieve peace in the Middle East."

The award is certainly unexpected and might be regarded as more of an encouragement for intentions than a reward for achievements. After all, the president has been in office for a little over eight months and he might hope to serve eight years. At home, Obama's popularity is flagging under the pressure of rising unemployment and a divisive, sometimes bitter debate over his healthcare reform plans. Abroad, he is still widely seen around the world as an inspirational figure. Obama believes in change. "It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America," he said.

True, there could be many more deserving persons for the award, apart from US president Obama, but current Obama’s firm role has placed him at top of the list as the most suited person for the covered prize. Right from the beginning he has advocated peace and friendship ad searched for avenues to forge fraternity across the globe across the civilizations. Though he ahs not yet achieved any tangible results, Obama has clearly paved ways for a safer world. He has made the Zionist regime on the feet. He has begun troop withdrawal from Iraq and ahs refused to add more troops to Afghanistan in spite of all pressures from different terror quarters. President Obama has shown he can stick to certain principles, come what may. Palestinians should have some patience because dealing with the fascist Zionist regime is not as easy as they know by heart.

Obama has begun the task quite earnestly and the Nobel committee has rightly inferred the truth about Obama peace goals. In anticipation of a his future, pro-peace activities especially in Mideast and Kashmir, Nobel Peace has been bestowed upon Obama for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew criticism as well as praise. Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January. His ambition for a world free of nuclear weapons is one that is easier to declare than to achieve and a climate control agreement has yet to be reached.

Nobel Committee has chosen one of best candidates for the prestigious Peace award, looking for more productive actions, much greater job, from him in the years to come. Withstanding all pressures from all corners, President Obama has moved ahead for peace actions, called for peaceful coexistence and disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January. "Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in a citation. Obama can bring peace to the world during his tenure as the custodian of White house which was dominated by the Zionist- cum other anti-Islamic rogues before Obama assumed office. Let us congratulate President Obama, let us trust him.  

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Specialist on State Terrorism

Independent Researcher in International Affairs, the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.