Members of the Nobel Peace Prize committee criticized Shimon Peres for supporting Israel’s current military actions. "It is grotesque," said Hanna Kvanmo, a committee member who said she supported the decision to award him the prize in 1994, along with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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