On September, 29th, the US rejected a UN report as unreliable. The report mentions that Israel has committed war crimes against Gaza.
Despite the number of cases indicated by Human Rights Watch and other NGO's regarding crimes against humanity and violation of Human Rights by Israel towards Palestinian peoples, Obama chose to neglect them all, and focus rather on Israeli concerns regarding Iran and its nuclear programme. Everybody's aware of Israel's own nuclear achievements and that it is able to act isolated despite UN resolutions for preventing more crimes against humanity.
It is still difficult to understand how is Iran's programme different from all those of countries such as Germany, UK, India or China, or Israel for that matter?
Faced with incoherent and incongruent actions Barack Hussein Obama felt "humbled" and "caught by surprise" for being the recipient of an internationally accredited award. The absurdity of the event is that Obama hasn't yet gotten any closer to a peace process in the Middle East - a place which he knows very well, of being one of the most important and relevant centres for the growth of hate, despair and terrorist activities.
Perhaps the Prize means hope. Hope that he should look for peace, from a just and unbiased way. But honestly, "can he"? Not convinced, yet. If not, then we will see a new form of tribalism emerging in a modern world.
As Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer reminds us, the Negroes will always have difficulty in accepting the blackness of Obama, as will the Whites have similar difficulties in accepting his whiteness. We may face a new tribalism formed by membership to an unfair and unjust white minority, named and famed, with power, and resources, which will perpetuate a new form of colonialism - coloured in unusual and unseen ways.
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*A Salaam means peace
