President Obama has announced he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom of Israeli President Shimon Peres. According to the book "Israel and the Bomb" by Avner Cohen, Peres played a key role in the Israeli nuclear weapons program. According to declassified documents published by scholar Sasha Polakow-Suransky in 2010, Peres even offered to sell nuclear-tipped Jericho missiles to Apartheid South Africa. According to the book "Divert" part of the clandestine Israel nuclear program even involved stealing US government-owned nuclear material from the NUMEC plant in Pennsylvania. This occurred while Peres was in charge.
Giving a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Peres is tantamount to rewarding the only nuclear proliferator in the Middle East.