Israeli nuclear whistleblower says he does not want to be associated with Nobel winner Shimon Peres.
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has again asked to be removed from a list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees, the head of the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday.
"He has written letters to us this year and last year also, where he stated explicitly that he did not want to be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize," Nobel Institute Director Geir Lundestad told the German Press Agency DPA.
Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who was jailed for leaking details of Israel's nuclear program to a British newspaper in 1986, cited that he did not want to be "associated " with Shimon Peres, a former Nobel Peace Prize laureate and current president of Israel.
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I'm not sure I really get this. Why refusing this monumental opportunity, in case of win, to voice his deep concerns on the wider stage, about Israel's nuclear capabilities? What's the rationale here?
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Well, if the past is any indication, he won't win. The prize usually goes to some safe diplomat or poltician. I can't remember when the Nobel Committee made a bold statement with their selection. He probably feels that if he participates, it will give the Nobel Prize legitimacy that it does not deserve and that he can make a clear statement by boycotting the process....The guy spent 18 years in prison; he probably has a chip on his shoulder.
ReplyDeleteHow many mass murderers and militarists won the Nobel anyway? Kissinger, T. Roosevelt, come to mind...
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