THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL INSTITUTE has announced that it’s not going to revoke Shimon Peres’s Peace Prize:

At its meeting on April 29, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee discussed the many responses it has received concerning recent statements made by certain committee members about Shimon Peres and the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian, as well as international news media, have interpreted these statements to mean that the Committee would have wished to revoke the prize awarded to Peres in 1994. This interpretation is not correct.

According to the statutes, the Nobel Prize cannot be revoked. This question has therefore never been an issue for the Norwegian Nobel Committee. This is true also for the many prizes that over the years have been awarded for peace-building efforts in the Middle East. The statements recently made about Shimon Peres and the Nobel Peace Prize have been made on behalf of individual committee members only, and do not reflect the view of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as such.

Sorry guys, but I just don’t care. You’ve blown your credibility completely. Revoke it, don’t revoke it, whatever. There’s more honest judging in the WWF.

UPDATE: Some readers say I’ve blown my credibility by saying WWF instead of the new WWE. But I meant the World Wildlife Federation all along. . . Yeah, that’s it! . . .