Ex-Nobel Prize Committee Member Demands Regret

Kaare Kristiansen, who resigned from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee after it awarded the prize to Yasser Arafat in 1994, now calls upon it to publicly repudiate and regret its decision. \"The current violence in the Middle East, for which Arafat is responsible, proves that it was a mistake to grant him the prize,\" Kristiansen said. The past president of the Norwegian Parliament and former Norwegian Minister of Oil and Energy, Kristiansen is also a leading proponent of efforts to have Norway and other countries move their embassies in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. An internet petition calling for the revoking of Arafat\'s Peace Prize can be signed at \"www.revoketheprize.org\".