when it awarded the award to yasser arafat, shimon perez and rabin after the signing of the oslo accords. if the opposition to begin s award was fierce the objection over arafat was an inferno who was the head of the plo who was responsible for ugly acts of terrorism against israel. a conservative journalist called him worst man ever to win the nobel peace prize. we can condemn these leaders for their misdeeds and we should but i understand the committee s standard desire to reach out and take risks to encourage diplomats to actually find ways to end conflicts and enter into negotiations and find ways to compromise. the prize has been awarded to inspiring figures, ones far less complicated than the ones i ve described like the pie fever microfinance mohammed uanys. those figures, laudable as they are, did not achieve peace. the fact is the custodians of peace are politicians and