Israel has a new newspaper, and, because it’s online, everybody has a new newspaper: the Times of Israel. It’s edited by David Horovitz, the distinguished Anglo-Israeli journalist. (Not to be confused with David Horowitz, our hero on the West Coast, born and raised in New York.) Over the weekend, I had an op-ed in the Times: “The worst man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”

That refers to Yasser Arafat, the late PLO chairman. But I regard it as an insult to Le Duc Tho, who’s at least tied. The 1973 co-laureate (with Henry Kissinger) was known as a hard-line SOB even within a totalitarian, mass-murdering dictatorship. That’s something.

If you’re not sick of my op-eds, there’s one in the Wall Street Journal today, called “The Anti-American Nobel Peace Prize” (subscription required). In the 2000s, there were five Nobels given against George W. Bush, arguably. At a minimum, these were Nobels that had Bush somewhere in mind. I’m talking about the awards to Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Mohamed ElBaradei, Al Gore, and the Great Un-Bush, or Anti-Bush: Barack Obama.

In my book, I quote a U.S. diplomat with experience in Norway, the home of the Nobel Peace Prize: “It’s not so much that Norwegian elites are anti-American” — you can see how the Nobel committee honors our presidents and vice-presidents. “It’s just that they like America better when it’s governed by Democrats,” rather than Republicans. For sure!

Once upon a time, the committee honored Republicans. I give you Theodore Roosevelt, for example. And Elihu Root, his secretary of state. And Charles G. Dawes, vice president under Coolidge. And Frank Kellogg, that president’s secretary of state. And Nicholas Murray Butler — “Nicholas Miraculous,” TR called him — the president of Columbia U.

The president of an Ivy League college, a Republican. Whoa! Anyway, for a review of my book by Robert Low in Standpoint, go here. For a Q&A with The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis — an audio deal — go here.

At the end of his review, Bob Low points out that last year’s winner of the Confucius Peace Prize was Vladimir Putin. The Confucius prize was set up by the Chinese Communists out of pique at the 2010 Nobel prize to Liu Xiaobo, one of their political prisoners.

Confucius say, Kremlin ruler man of peace. (Is that hate speech?)