Thursday, July 17, 2008

Thomas Freidman: "Nobel Prize for Nassrallah"

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New York, USA: Pivazistan has learned that the syndicated columnist, Thomas Friedman is in the middle of drafting a column for the New York Times in which he will nominate Hassan Nassrallah for a Nobel Prize. The thinking behind the nomination stems from Friedman's belief that Hizbollah's Secretary-General, Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah could have easily burned the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers over whom a war was fought, instead, he kept them "nicely refrigerated" [Friedman's words] and finally "shipped them home."

This is the second time that Thomas Friedman has nominated a Shi'a leader for the Nobel Prize, in 2005 he nominated Ali al-Sistani for the Nobel Prize because according to Friedman, Sistani's advocacy for elections in Iraq made the elderly clergyman a liberal democrat who would abandon his conservative religions beliefs for the sake of a what he called, "Jeffersonian democracy."

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