The Nobel Peace Prize has *always* been used to make political statements.
You think Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel wasn't a political statement? You think that didn't tick off the segregationists in the US? Wake up!
It's not funded by you. You don't get to call the piper. If they don't like your guy, you have a right to be displeased. So what?
Yes, Arafat received the Peace Prize. In 1994. Jointly, with Shimon Peres and Yitzak Rabin. The world is a different place now. Find out what Mr. Peres thinks about Yassir Arafat in 1994.
Look at the list of winners. Then let's discuss the political statements.
It's not called the Nobel War Prize.