3. September 2013
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President Obama was awarded the 2009 Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts” to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. Now many people say the prize should be revoked due to Obama's demand of attack on Syria. The VoR spoke with Shraga Elam, an Israeli Writer who was behind the petition to the Royal Swedish Academy of Scientists. In a petition a group of activists demanded that the Nobel Prize Committee withdraw the award for economics to the Israeli mathematician and his US colleague on the grounds that they are warmongers.
