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== Biased Awards ==

Equally there have been several instances where prizes were awarded to those whom many felt did not deserve the honor. Controversy in this regard has been especially acute in the award of the Peace Prize. When [[Henry Kissinger]] was awarded the prize in 1973 the American satirist, Tom Lehrer, observed that this had rendered political satire 'obsolete'. Many were outraged by the award to [[Yasir Arafat]] in 1994, who was reportedly associated with the Munich massacre of Jewish athletes in 1972.<ref>http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzUyZjg1MTY2NjgxOTQ5Zjg2OWIwOTNjMTQxY2U4MTk=</ref> Only days after [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] received his Peace Prize, Soviet troops were ordered into the [[Georgia_(country)#South_Ossetia_and_conflict_with_Russia|sovereign republic of Georgia]]<ref>http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-01-10/news/1991010108_1_georgian-parliament-south-ossetia-georgian-police</ref> to shoot on unarmed civilians, killing hundreds. In 1978 [[Menachem Begin]] won the Peace Prize, who then started the 1982 Lebanon War culminating in the Sabra and Shatila massacres.<ref>http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story703.html</ref> The Peace Prize has often been awarded only a year or so after the political events that have merited the award, and not lifetime achievement. The Arafat award is particularly controversial in this respect.