Who better than Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize?

In the latest instalment of the “can’t-make-this-sh*t-up” contention successful planetary authorities and diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In different words, the idiosyncratic presently presiding implicit the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has projected that the world’s apical peacemaking prize beryllium awarded to the superior enabler of that genocide – the antheral who successful March announced that helium was “sending Israel everything it needs to decorativeness the job” successful Gaza. That “everything” has entailed billions of dollars successful lethal weaponry and different assistance.

From October 2023 to the present, astir 60,000 Palestinians person officially been slaughtered successful the diminutive territory, though the existent decease toll is nary uncertainty acold higher considering the surplus of bodies mislaid nether the pervasive rubble. More than 700 Palestinians person been killed successful caller weeks portion seeking nutrient astatine assistance organisation sites tally by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organisation backed by some the US and Israel.

Since resuming bureau successful January, Trump has besides managed plentifulness of do-it-yourself enactment of a decidedly unpeaceful nature, specified arsenic wantonly bombing civilians successful Yemen and illegally attacking Iran.

Indeed, it is simply a wonderment that media outlets person managed to study connected Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize information with a consecutive face. CNN, for example, notes that “the grant has go Trump’s eventual fixation, 1 helium says is good deserved for his efforts to extremity conflicts astir the globe”. The president was informed of his information connected Monday, erstwhile Netanyahu showed up for meal astatine the White House arsenic portion of his 3rd visit to Washington this year.

Thanking Netanyahu for the honour, Trump remarked: “Wow … Coming from you, successful particular, this is precise meaningful.”

And portion “meaningful” is surely 1 mode to enactment it, the word does not rather convey the utter preposterousness of the full arrangement.

Then again, it’s not similar the Nobel Peace Prize enjoys a precise coagulated way grounds successful presumption of surviving up to the stipulation that it beryllium awarded to the idiosyncratic “who shall person done the astir oregon the champion enactment for fraternity betwixt nations, for the abolition oregon simplification of lasting armies and for the holding and promotion of bid congresses”.

In 2009, the prestigious accolade was bestowed connected recently inaugurated US President Barack Obama, who would spell connected to stimulate planetary “fraternity” by bombing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Syria.

Obama besides operated concealed “kill lists”, whereby helium authorised subject assassinations overseas successful accordance with his ain idiosyncratic whims.

Other esteemed recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize person included Colombia’s right-wing erstwhile President Juan Manuel Santos, who, arsenic the Israeli paper Haaretz reported successful 2013, was “proud” to person his state called “the Israel of Latin America”. As defence curate during the blood-drenched reign of his predecessor Alvaro Uribe, Santos was embroiled successful the alleged “false positives” ungraded that saw Colombian soldiers execution an estimated more than 10,000 civilians and walk the corpses disconnected arsenic “terrorists”.

Given Israel’s flair for massacring civilians successful the sanction of warring “terrorism”, the state examination was peculiarly apt. And what bash you know: the roster of Nobel Peace Prize laureates besides comprises the precocious Israeli person Shimon Peres, who was co-awarded the prize successful 1994 – 2 years earlier helium supervised the slaughter of 106 refugees sheltering astatine a United Nations compound successful Qana, Lebanon.

In 2021, Trump’s ain son-in-law Jared Kushner was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by ex-Harvard Law School prof Alan Dershowitz, who has devoted overmuch of his ineligible vocation to justifying Israel’s sidesplitting of Arab civilians. In this case, Kushner’s information was based connected his starring relation successful producing the Abraham Accords that normalised relations betwixt Israel and assorted Arab states.

Now that genocide has efficaciously been normalised, too, Trump has projected that the US instrumentality implicit the Gaza Strip, forcibly expel the autochthonal Palestinian population, and remodel the devastated territory into a brand-new “Riviera of the Middle East”. Anyway, it’s each successful a day’s enactment for a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

In its writeup of the Washington rendezvous – headlined “Netanyahu surprises Trump with Nobel information arsenic some leaders speech of evacuating Gazans” – The Times of Israel specifies that “Netanyahu said the US and Israeli strikes against Iran had ‘changed the look of the Middle East’ and created an accidental to grow the Abraham Accords”. After all, there’s thing that says “fraternity betwixt nations” similar simply doing distant with Palestine altogether.

Reflecting connected the overzealous onslaught connected Iran that earned him the Peace Prize nomination, Trump favourably compared his enactment with US President Harry Truman’s determination to driblet atomic bombs connected the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

Of course, it should spell without saying that anyone who positively invokes the nuking of hundreds of thousands of civilians should beryllium categorically ineligible for immoderate benignant of superior bid prize. But successful a satellite successful which the expected pursuit of bid is truthful often utilised arsenic an excuse for much war, Trump’s information mightiness precise good beryllium meaningful, indeed.

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