What do Yassar Arafat and Medea Benjamin have in common?

1) They both fund terrorists (One in the recent past, one currently) and 2) They have both been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Yassar actually won his, but Medea is claiming she is a nominee. How delightful.

That's correct -- Yassar Arafat WON the Nobel Peace Prize and apparently, Media Bejamin, co-founder of Code Pink, has been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

Here is the paragraph from a recent press release:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0826-21.htm
Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis are members of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a group that has been actively involved in the vigil in Crawford, Texas. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK, founder of Global Exchange, and nominee for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Gayle Brandeis is the author of The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change.