What are they smoking?

There is a threat or a bribe or both involved here.

This is like the Nobel Peace Prize given to Obama prior to his doing squat. Israel is giving him this aware in hopes that he will see which side are the good guys. Look, Israel is the victim, and needs to use every opportunity to gain support. So, they swallow their pride and attempt to bribe Obama with a meaninless award. God bless them, because Israel needs every blessing they can get.

Is this from The Onion?

This is like the Nobel Peace Prize given to Obama prior to his doing squat. Israel is giving him this award in hopes that he will see which side are the good guys. Look, Israel is the victim, and needs to use every opportunity to gain support. So, they swallow their pride and attempt to bribe Obama with a meaninless award. God bless them, because Israel needs every blessing they can get.

Sheesh, the ´word coppers´ wouldn´t let me through with what I wanted to write...

Make it out of Polonium-210!

Could make a thinking person lose interest in Israel.

The prestigious Adolph Eichmann Humanitarian Award would be appropriate.

So President Hologram gets another unearned reward.
Nothing new.

This may a good strategy to keep BO distracted! Appeal to his narcissism!

#9,i have to say that you put a smile on my face - when i was feeling pretty sick.

What a farce?

I´m sure he will have it tested everyway possible...but maybe he won´t see the tiny microphones or hear the infinitely quiet ´hum´ of the kryptonian particle release device that when activated eats mutated cell brains...

If you feel a sickness in the pit of your stomach after reading this, then "you´ve been punk´d"..."you´ve been played"....imagine you´re Sen Rubio who last week responded to the SOTU and was belittled because of a water bottle, and this week is in Israel on his second official trip in 2 years and you face this egg-on-the-face announcement from Peres just before meetings with him...

Alice in Wonderland turns out to be a Travelog.

This is probably just payback. Last summer Obama presented Peres, with our highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Peres is just being a good host.

Prestigious award?
Giving it to obama really makes it worthless!

I have no doubt this was negotiated long ago as part of The Won´s reason to visit Israel. King Obama must be appeased and fawned over.

Hey now folks, go easy on the Big Won.

This means as much as his Nobel.

#9 I agree with #12. Thank God people can still have a sense of humor.

Like #12, I feel sick these days. Somewhat off topic but also relevant if you will endulge me. For years I did nothing but buy and read books about WWII German Theater. One of those books was entitled The Case Against Adolph Eichmann

A visitor to my house looked at the bookcase and wanted to know who the Nazi was in the house. A lot of the hardback books had a twisted cross on the jackets. Those books were Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Inside the Third Reich, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, and many more - none of which glorify Hitler.

The visitor evidently didn´t see the books on Eisenhower, Truman, Raol Wallenberg, Einstein, Eric Bonhoeffer, Churchill, and other great men of WWII era.
After I looked at my books, I decided to take the jackets off my books so that my books wouldn´t give subsequent visitors the wrong impression.

All my reading has given me enough information to feel very, very concerned about the future of our country. Personally, I think Senator Joe McCarthy got a bad rap back in the 1950´s - he may have been more correct than we or even he knew.

Obviously, my bookcase has nothing to do with the article except why I feel that giving Obama an Israeli prestigious medal is like giving Hitler an award for insisting all Jewish-owned stores have a star of David on them so that Kristallnacht will be successful.

Tribute for the new Roman emperor.

I suspect this has something to do with the Iron Dome anti-missile project developed jointly between US and Israel that is currently protecting Israelis from missiles fired from Gaza. Obama gave it strong support under the radar.....there´s a lot that goes on in international diplomacy that we have no clue about. I expect the Israelis know what they are doing.

Wusses.

Israel has learned that the king likes gifts, and honors, and distinctions. Just like Third World dictators do.

I have long thought Simon Peres is to Israel as Dick Durbin is to the U.S.

Another Nobel Prize for doing exactly nothing!

Not only that, but they´re minting a one-off for Stinky, made of zinc! Usually struck in gold, that was just too-commonplace. Even a bunch of Olympic competitors get gold medals.

Ever-thorough, the Israelis checked with our USDA and FDA, only to find that their first-choice material of... "organic matter" would not be admitted to the US on Barry´s return.

Seriously, I´m on the floor here over this! It´s great.

Doesn´t anyone else see the backhand in this "award"?

See #25. Who has studied human nature longer or more closely than the Jewish people, rabbis in particular? Have you folks never read any of their writing, even contemporary articles? They get it. Except for their decorum, I´d half-expect the ceremony to close with the audience rising as one, turning their backs to him, and bending over as they all drop their pants. [I´d take the pay-per-view on that, for sure.]

The Meshuggah Schvartze Award

#21, look up the Venona decrypts.

Do they have cattle in Israel?
A box of fresh cow pies would sure send Da Zippster a message; maybe a box of ´Alley Apples´ to take back for the Press Corpse on AF-1 might be a nice gift.

Hopefully, that medal they are giving him is a boat anchor, to hang around his neck.