Netanyahu to Obama: Nobel win sign of hope for 'new era of peace'

Daniel 8:25 ...and by peace shall destroy many:...

Mr. O can now usurp the title "Prince of Peace"

He Knows All Israeli Occupation Must End for peace to take place. The Israeli Government Must Tackle Zeal among the Jewish people who insist that Palestine is God Given to them only.

Exactly how is it natural to allow thieves to add rooms to illegal houses on stolen property?

What has he done? Everything he has done at home is a failure. His policys are losers. he has bankrupted America. He can't make a decison while good Husbands and Sons are getting killed in Afghanistan. Health Care Reform and Cap and trade are in the toliet. SO what has this idiot done. The Answer is nothing. Are the Israelis and pals any closer to peace. NO. The Nobel peace prize is now no more classy then a MTV award.What a joke this award is.

He would consider breaking away with his FM, the one who joined Bibi's government on condition of no peace. Peace is illusion, isn't that what he just said.

... Rivlin reveals the gist of the attitude of this government towards peace... peace-and-peril are synonomous for Bibi et al... their policy is: keep the Pals in disarray as long as possible, it's good-for-the-Jews... perhaps this is the farce that the Nobles intended to reveal, for the whole world to see...

... when we all know that peace-shmeace is the last thing he has on his mind... peace would mean that his whole coalition would evaporate overnight... peace means giving back to the Pals large chunks of their ancestral territory... while the settlers are busy adding on second bathrooms and extending kindergartens, and the IDF watches over their safety... anyway, it's mind-boggling to think what peace-in-our-times implies... chazak-ve-emats, Obama!!

Idiotic congratulations galore... The whole world, including Obama himself, the American media, even Taliban and Hamas (who understand things and tell it as it is), as well as bloggers everywhere, are flabbergasted about this ridiculous Nobel Prize given for beautiful talk and doing nothing... Yet, Netanyahu plus Peres find another subject to show their utter hypocrisy! Barak included....

The Nobel committee is trying to influence Obama's foreign policy. This award for Obama is so strange as to be absurd.

he doesn't understand that concepts are far more powerful than deeds. a concept, once it has inspired, becomes indestructible, while the results of MOST deeds can usually be undone. then he voices his concern: "it is possible that he might force israel into a peace deal now that he has won the award"... whew! what a revealing thing to say, rivlin! "force israel into a peace deal"... well hmmm...this should make the intentions of the israeli government quite clear to just about ANYONE. even the most hardcore of those who tend to give it the benefit of the doubt.

The Israeli's are just jealous that he won it. He deserved it and nobody can say anything negative about it. He brings HOPE for the innocent Palestinians.. Refugees no more. UN Resoultion 1948 will allow all palestinians to return to their homeland. God willing

What contributions has Mr. Obama made so far to peace on earth? None! The only contribution he made in our country has been to expect Jews, just because they are Jews, not to move into neighborhoods. He will not have his wish granted of course, but such an attitude toward Jews by a person claiming to be anti-racist illustrates the man. Is this the material from which peace is made?

They could not find any one who actually really deserved a Peace Prize through achievement in the world. So they gave it to the next best thing : to the one who TALKS most charmingly about it. That is the state of peace efforts in the world, no action just talk and you win. But also you have to be a world wide known candidate: result : Obama. Other than that , Obama does not deserve it anymore than me as since I was born I've been shouting PEACE PEACE, but nobody knows me, together with millions of people more deserving than Obama. Anyway, the Norwegians are not my God, so I for one dont' accept their verdict. Next on the list of candidates , after Yasser Arafat and Carter : Ahmadinedjad; Nasrallah, Haniyeh,Ousama Bin Laden, Hugo Chavez, and wait for it, Gadafi and Putin ! What a farce. Who appointed this Norwegian bunch ? The hippies or the punks ?

in a box of Cherios. What a farce!!!

I can just imagine what Bibi really thinks about Mr. Nobel and his prize.

Since external conflict is the lifeblood of Arab dictatorships (be they secular or theocratic), conflict in the Arab world is not seen as a problem that requires a solution. The enemy of the Middle East is not the West so much as modernism and the humiliation that accrues when millions are nursed by fantasies, hypocrisies, and conspiracies to explain away their own failures.

Americans take home a Peace prize and Israel gets a War Crimes Report......what does that tell you Israel? You are heading in the wrong direction?

that Rivlin is in such close agreement with Hamas, the Taliban and Jamaat-e-Islami. Perhaps there is hope after all.

Mr. Peres, himself a recipient, was most gracious in his comments.

Deadline for candidate Feb 1.How can you deserve prize for 10 days in office?

Perhaps this is why he's been married thrice, he just doesn't have boundaries and doesn't know how to address someone who's working hard at ripping up boundaries. Bibi is a good man but this is a fatal flaw, he says too many vapid things and tries to please too many useless people.

What do any members of hamas or the taliban know of peace?

They always have the words ready but these mean nothing to real peace.

In February they chose 20 names. I am sure Bush was one of them. LOL Then they finalized by October. So they had planty of time to see what Obama's policies are. It is too early to judge, but it took them longer than a few weeks into his presidency.

who decides on these awards? Shouldn't they be given out postmortem, unless there is an extremely special person who has actually ACCOMPLISHED something that the world has benefitted from?

There is no need to congratulate a man for winning a psuedo prize that he did not qualify for or deserve. Wishful thinking does not an award make...he should return it and give it to Ronald Reagans' family for what achievements he made for world peace. May I remind you..the end of the cold war and the destruction of the Berlin Wall. But then Reagan was not part of the soppy left....

..not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When that is clarified it is clear which side the US must be on! I think Obama is smart enough to figure this one out. Congrats on Nobel Prize win!

The only reason he actually got elected was because he was a cut above the other guy (McCain). Now he's practically the second coming of Christ! Thankfully, I'm Jewish, so I won't be falling for the rock star aura thing. Let the teenage groupies salivate over him! I'm sticking with G-d, the one and only.

Sir, the President of Israel wrote a beautiful, very polite letter to US President B:H. Obama on the ocasion of getting the Nobel Peace Price this year. He even mentioned peace in a very general term, however no hope that this price will be an incentive to achieve peace for Israel and Arab Palestine

Nobody has said Jews can't live in any part of their land. Their land. Not somebody else's land, i.e. the Palestinians' land. Obama needs to stand up to Netanyahoo and demand an end to all settlements, not just a freeze. Israel's nightmare, I realise, because it could lead to that horror of all horrors - Peace.

maybe those of you on stolen land are Jews alienated by Obama. American Jews are not. Get it through yur heads. The opposite: his support will grow!

Sign a petition now - nobelpeace.eu ! Lets express our objection against the absurd decision to award B. Obama Nobel Peace Prize !

I hope israel will not disapoint him!

The spectacle of Mr Obama mounting the podium in Oslo to accept a prize that once went to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mother Theresa would be all the more absurd if it follows a White House decision to send up to 40,000 more US troops to Afghanistan.

...is that it would remove the fig leaf from the notion that muslim fanaticism worldwide is resulting from israel-arab conflict. The fanaticism is the result of financing of conflict to further cynical interests. These cynical interests will not change their tune and their money will continue to be influential unless those interests are liquidated.

President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize outright. He promised and is fighting for peace in the middle east. Both the Palestinians and the Israeli's need to give him a chance to work things out. The "pride" has got to go. Theres been too much bloodshed on both sides of the line. I believe that he will be tough on both sides to come to a final conclusion. Hopefully he will accept Hamas as the government of the Palestinian people instead of a so-called "terrorist group", since it was the Palestinian people that went to the polls and deomcractically elected Hamas as their government. Hopefully Hamas will finally recognize the state of Israel. And finally hopefully East Jerusalem will be the capital of Palestine, and no more illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

I think the US Department of State should issue a diplomatic démarche to the Norwegians for making the US President and the Office of President of the US the laughingstock of the entire world.

Its all politics. In the end those who have done real work are bypassed by those who meet the Nobel committee agenda.

what a phoney bibi is. obama is bibi's worst nightmare, who keeps asking him what he will do with the 3.5 million arabs in the greater israel that bibi's supporters want.

Why Israel must create a Palestinian State? Are your claims satisfied if Israel just cedes the land outside the green line that has not been annexed to Jordan? Why is it incumbent on Israel to work with Palestinians to build them a state when from the outset Palestinians have rejected the idea of a Jewish state alongside them, the Arab-Palestinian Boycott of the 1947 Partition Plans is a testament to this. F**K Making a Peace deal, give Jordan the Headache, Keep Jerusalem as it was annexed (bugger off world you ain't going to attack anyways so you are just a big crying baby with a scratched knee) Why waste the time and effort and cash on a liability, that is the Palestinians and a Peace Deal, a Unilateral deal is better because on top of it all, should attacks come from the "New Jordan", Jordan will be on the hook and it doesn't need a recreation of Indenpendce Hill and its 3-1 casualty rate.

If you you don't make peace with your enemies, who do you make peace with? You'll only find the peace of the grave. You've had over 20years of peace with Egypt, the largest country in the region, thanks to President Carter and the courageous Israeli leaders of the time. You are an idiot if you believe perpetual war is better than peace.

Saintly Olof ,so dear to the hearts of Ericsson&Co was peddling our superb Bofors haubitzes to BOTH India and Pakistan during his UN-mandated (and paif ) Peace Mission during India-Pakistan Wr. His kickbacks have astonished even his hardened Social Democratic party fellows ,the nest stake he had left to his wife could in no way be explaied by his income. Yes Gunnar ,peace-making is a lucratie business. And a pleasant one ,Carl Bildt was kissing Erich Honecker so heartily on each cheek ,and got kissed in return ,a short time before Dear Comrade Erich was booted out and sent packing to Chile. So shove your "wood -cutters" communist jargon dear Gunnar,they'd love to come to Israel to work and be wood cutters ,but they love blowing up busses too ,so perhaps you'd invite the pals to Sweden? I'd be against it ,together with the majority of our society ,so stop this inane babbling of yours.

and I suspect the people in Israel who have never been for peace will escalate their hatred of Obama

It is all fine and dandy to hear Israeli leaders congratulate Mr. Obama on his latest award, but when will Israelis accept that the time has come to stop the intransigence, and get on with negotiating with the Palestinians on a final settlement? I don't see any serious action being taken either on the Israeli nor on the Palestinian side. Now the Palestinians are deflecting tensions over the decision not to pursue the Goldstone report by causing a new set of protests in Jerusalem. Lieberman is brushing off any peace deal. This is not taking a hardline, but rather being purposefully a bunch of cowards, and it does little to help us in the Diaspora when you refuse to budge and blame the other side for all the problems. Enough is enough. Time to cut foreign aid to both the PA and Israel.

"[Rivlin] added his concern that "it is possible that he might force Israel into a peace deal..." That's kind of letting the cat out of the bag, isn't it?

as Obama will have even more credibly in the international community.....and Israel , as long as it insists on its criminal policies, less and less.

It's a very wise move from Sweden to help Peace in Middle East. Peace Now!

ooooooh how it must hurt. Peace have always been a dirty word amongst them and God knows they have been calling Barack Obama every dirty word in the book. Time to get your sorry arses back to where they belong, behind the Green Line, and don't forget to pick up the trash before you leave. Your water carriers and wood choppers are about to taste freedom, yes you will kick and scream, but to no avail. Shalom!

" not reside in parts of our country " YOUR country is presently marked by the Green Line - and if you ever will have something beyond in legal possession, it will only be in mutual settlement with your neighbours, not by your unilateral decision. Live with it.

Obumler is in good company with former winners Peanut Carter, Terrorist Arafat, and Global Warming Al Gore who invented the internet.

At first I didn't get it either, but it is very simple and makes sense. He got the prize not for what he did, but to make it harder for Israel to fight his insane, naive ideas. Israel got screwed bad this time. How can you not sit down with the Noble Prize winner?

This is truly a joke, an American getting the nobel peace prize-vomit vomit. The only peace Americans understand is a "piece" of everyone elses pie.

The great failure of history like Arafat, Carter, Peres, etc got their price after having failed completely. Now the Nobel Academy is going into foresseing the future as Obama has - so far - sold hot air and the failures are still to come. What a joke! Doubt that this is wirtten in Alfred Nobel's will.

He should be embarrassed. Taliban, Hamas and Rivilin--sad day for Israel.

Its amazing how someone who has not a damn thing yet for peace is awarded one of the worlds most prestigious prizes. Mr. Obama has yet accomplish anything on the world stage but yet receives this prize?? The media was in bed with him during the election campaign and now it seems the world is caught in his speeches and empty promises. All this does is cheapen the value of this award.

There are two types of politicians. There are Obama and Kennedy types which set the aura of change and hope and keep it alive and connect it to the average Joe or Sarah. Then there are those who do the footwork -Lyndon Johnson for example, deserves the credit for getting the equal rights bill passed through Congress, although he is not remembered in any special terms. Obama set the table for change and brings about him an aura of hope and change toward a more peaceful world where one is measured by intelligence of the spoken word and not on political phrases with no depth. I was surprised at the award, and hope it doesn't backfire by appearing to premature. Usually these awards are given after a period of time tested has gone by. One still has to marvel and give credit for the ability to inspire and give hope. On this measure, Obama has won.

Since you, your party and your country, are doing everything in your power to see peace is not achieved, maybe it is time for the US, the UN and the EU to make sure that you do, becasue, quite frankly, mr. Rivlin, the world is fed up with your games that are pushing us to the brink of a conflagration and for what? So you can grab Silwan and Sheik Jarreh, fold your arms and huff: "See what we can get away with?" Hopefully, Obama will show some courage and put a stop to your madness.

The kissing up by Israel will be hysterical.

Hey Mr. Hamas spokesperson. What has any Muslim country contributed to the peace process? You kill each other, you kill those who don't believe as you do, you stone your people to death, you give them 1,000 lashes for contempt, you send suicide bombers around the world, you hate other muslims. What do you know about peace. Yasser AssofFat got one and what did that criminal, thief and con man do to advance the hope and cause for peace? An infatada? The only peace you will experience is when you all burn.

Nobel must be squirming in his grave. arafart, peres, rabin & now obuma. Maybe the nothing noble about the nobel prize committee should create a new class of prize "he who kills most Jews".

It's called a peace prize. Your people are a people of hatred with a mission of: One World, One G-d, One People. What the hell do you Islamists know about peace?

Strange Nobel attitude. For instance, Fridtjof Nansen got a Nobel Prize for work done, not for proposing ideas how to make a better world, which have no chance to be realized ...

blah blah blah blah...what leadership? Hugo Chavez? Zelaya? His corrupt leftist/marxist "czars"? His bias toward the arabs? Give me a break!

What a joke the Nobel Peace prize has become. Obama who has actually acomplished nothing in the form of peace what so ever, joins Arafat and Carter as proof that this prize is a joke!

Peres received and shared the Noble Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat. Arafat died and Peres has done nothing yet. Kissinger does not deserve any peace prize at all because he was and still is an agitator and caused many problems in the Middle East and the world

demonstrate his will and ability to bring about peace. So far, at least in this region, he has managed to alienate many people, Jews, within and without Israel first and foremost, especially since we have been an ally of the US yet presently this President tell us that because we are Jewish we may not reside in parts of our country and in neighborhoods of our cities, something that in his native America would be called racism, anti-Jewish racism.

Nomination closed on 1 FEB 09 ... So its 11 days after Inauguration Day!!!!

Excellent comment. Netanyahu hates peace and hope he congratulates Obama. Just imagine Obama was granted the Nobel Peace Prize while Mitchell was discussing peace with Netanyahu.

Well said. You sound like a man who preferes peace than occupation and distruction. Obama deserves the Noble Peace Prize because he is a man of peace.

You say that Obama "has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes." Well, Hamas in its demented hegenomous and violent ambitions has devestated Arab and Muslim causes and also made life miserable for its Jewish victims. At least Obama respects human life and understands that conflicting claims of peoples need to be compromised and reconciled.

Peres also got the Nobel too early so he understands that it's meant more as a stimulus than as a reward for achievement. Kissinger won it too.

of Netanyahu's anti-Obama campaign. It will be interesting to hear Bibi's comments about Obama's prize. It will be about as hard for him to spit out "congratulations" as it was to say "two states".

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters: "The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won 'the Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians'." So sorry, Taliban spokesman. The prize for escalating violence is split between Taliban and Hamas. Israel wins the prize for killing civilians. hands down. And, .... oh yes! Al Qaida gets the squeaking rubber duck.

It's great that the US Pres is awarded the Nobel Prize; but Obama "stands for" and "he was elected to do" was to change US policy both domestically and internationally. That's easier said than done. Many players must follow and act in similar fashion and the two most difficult groups are here: Israeli leadership and the Palestinians. American taxpayers want an end to the conflict; but it's difficult with attitudes similar to Leiberman's. Obama and Americans will continue to try every day of Obama's adminstration which measures more than a thousand days into the future. There is no other good choice. The bad choice is one state practicing apartheid. Peace.

Obama-- I stand by President Obama, being the best opportunity, AT THIS TIME...for things to be accomplished...when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict/things in the region. HOWEVER: He MUST take a FIRMER stand on HUMAN RIGHTS, etc.!!! "His NEXT Nobel Prize" (If Any)-- Should be for his COMMITMENT to HUMAN RIGHTS, etc....along with good governance/conducting war(s): However...DIPLOMACY first!!! ...He gets credit for this. The Use Of NUKES-- May NEVER happen again! BUT: HUMAN/CIVIL RIGHTS Issues...are something we need to DEAL WITH, UPHOLD & PROMOTE...on a DAILY basis!!! DEMOCRACY-- Is a harder way to govern. UPHOLDING, ADHERING To & PROMOTING Human/Civil Rights, Etc.-- Are harder to include...in how we govern. BUT: It`s the RIGHT thing to do! AND: It separates us...from the BARBARIC/INHUMANE! We Chose The DEMOCRACY, HUMAN/CIVIL Rights Route-- We are UP to the challenge! Doing Otherwise-- SHOULD be BENEATH us!!!