Writes a friend: Obama strangles the Goldstone report, sides consistently with the colonizer (see, for example, the cave on settlements and silence on Gaza), and gets the Nobel Peace Prize nine months into office. He’s given some reasonable speeches and not been George W. Bush. It doesn’t make good sense to me.
The committee said he was, in part, being awarded because of his support for nuclear disarmament. Yet as Mondoweiss reported, when Helen Thomas asked him about Israel’s nukes he said he didn’t care to speculate. And more recently they indicated they were going to let it ride (Eli Lake has reported on this site). That’s not leadership. It’s taking the path of least resistance.
