Progressive friends who never previously mentioned María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, now celebrate her winning a Nobel Peace Prize. I wonder how carefully they’ve researched this lady. First, let’s have a moment of silence for Hugo Chavez, whose premature death robbed him of the Nobel Peace Prize that was his due. Perhaps we can reflect on the words of Noam Chomsky when he met this lion of democracy and peace:”I write about peace and criticize the barriers to peace; that’s easy. What’s harder is to create a better world… and what’s so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela is that I can see how a better world is being created.”
(Collectively, of course, the Venezuelans created such a great world in Venezuela that the Biden-Harris administration decided that 100 percent of Venezuelans were eligible to live in the United States, thus enabling them to replicate their success on a larger scale.)
Let’s see how truly peaceful the heiress to Barack Obama’s Mantle of Peace truly is. An unbiased “news” article from America’s journalists at The Week:
… many have started to point out that the 58-year-old is a strong ally of Israel and openly backs the country’s decision to bomb the largely unarmed civilians of the Gaza Strip. While there is no known evidence to argue that she supported the one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians, Machado is undoubtedly an ally of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the past, the centrist-right leader had even declared that if she gains power, she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.
It’s a fact that Israel launched a “one-sided attack on the Palestinian civilians” and this fake Peace laureate somehow supports the attackers rather than the unarmed and Peaceful Gazans.
(The Week’s article is a little confusing, actually. The “civilians” of Gaza are “largely unarmed”. Does that mean that some civilians in Gaza are armed with rockets, machine guns, etc., but are still considered “civilians” because they don’t also have tanks?)
Related:
- Hugo Chavez’s legacy
- Piketty, Democracy, and Hugo Chavez
- Hugo Chavez: Great politician; poor administrator
- Is Joe Biden the American Hugo Chavez?
- from the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), “a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group”: “an anti-Muslim bigot and supporter of European fascism would have no place being mentioned alongside the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other worthy winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The Nobel Peace Prize should be given to the entire Religion of Peace!
Agreed, we need to continue the courageous work begun by Jihad Al-Shamie in Manchester. What a martyr for the rest of us to aspire to. Alluha Akbar!
The Committee completely ignored my nomination of Karla LaVey, founder of the First Satanic Church:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_LaVey
As an alternative, I suggested Donald Trump, because he is arguably less hawkish than Obama and he got one on speculation. (Sorry Barry, I know you read this blog, but I have to tell the Truth.)
Something interesting about the CAIR Twitter/X feed is that they did not say anything about Prof. Dr. Omar Yaghi’s Nobel prize in Chemistry, even though he is a son of a Palestinian refugee family. I am not sure why but he did travel to Israel in 2018 to receive the Wolf Prize.
Probably because he is a real and not a fake scientist. He does not fit into environs which are based on falsehoods and half-truths. Also, halftruth-pedia says that he started to be refugee from Gaza early on, in 1948, while it was being occupied by Egypt and ruled by militant forces of Arab Protectorate. He started to be refugee from Israel early on, 19 years before Israel took control of Gaza for the first time. Most likely his family were refugees from groups of Islamic extremists who occupied and took control of Gaza.