Edited sentence: In her accpetance speech in 2003 she stated the following "Why is it that in the past 35 years, dozens of UN resolutions concerning the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the state of Israel have not been implemented promptly, yet, in the past 12 years, the state and people of Iraq, once on the recommendation of the Security Council, and the second time, in spite of UN Security Council opposition, were subjected to attack, military assault, economic sanctions, and, ultimately, military occupation.Many have speculated that Ebadi was undeserving of the Nobel Peace Prize because of her openly one-sided stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict