Trump deserves two Nobel Peace Prizes…
…if the award still meant what it should mean, that is.
He deserves one prize for this:
President Trump’s Israel-United Arab Emirates diplomatic breakthrough continues rippling out across the world.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain both announced Wednesday they will now allow flights from Israel to use their airspace en route to other destinations, according to the Times of Israel…
In Abu Dhabi, the UAE is following up on the deal by ordering hotels to serve kosher foods, according to Fox News…
The Palestinians have been trying to drum up opposition to the deal since its announcement but have gained no traction. The most it has been able to accomplish so far is to praise other Gulf states that have not followed UAE’s lead in normalizing relations with Israel. But Bahrain is already reportedly in “advanced talks” to normalize its relations with Israel. Oman may follow suit.
And the second prize for this:
On Sept. 4, the Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic signed an agreement committing the two Balkan states to reach a mutually beneficial and permanent economic and trade normalization deal. The Trump administration brokered the agreement and hosted the signing ceremony in Washington.
No, it’s not a peace treaty between Serbia and Kosovo; it’s an agreement to reach a deal. But the positive small step that makes possible larger steps is proving to be a trademark Donald Trump diplomatic and peace-making technique. Trump emphasizes economic progress that diminishes the negative effects of divisive ethnic, religious and cultural differences, and neuters destructive historical grievances as the harmful excuses for hate they are. Trump sees economic development that everyone can see sets the stage for the resolution of seemingly permanent political disputes.
This may seem as though it’s just common sense, like so many of Trump’s policies. But in the world of diplomacy, common sense is so uncommon as to be nearly extinct. And yet it can accomplish wonderful things. I certainly hope so.
And an Norwegian official actually did nominate Trump for the Prize. No, it wasn’t a joke – it was for real:
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Parliament who also serves as chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Fox News in an exclusive interview…
Also cited in the letter was the president’s “key role in facilitating contact between conflicting parties and … creating new dynamics in other protracted conflicts, such as the Kashmir border dispute between India and Pakistan, and the conflict between North and South Korea, as well as dealing with the nuclear capabilities of North Korea.”
Tybring-Gjedde, further, praised Trump for withdrawing a large number of troops from the Middle East. “Indeed, Trump has broken a 39-year-old streak of American Presidents either starting a war or bringing the United States into an international armed conflict. The last president to avoid doing so was Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter,” he wrote.
The same man nominated Trump in 2018. Trump did not win, and I will go out on a very stout limb and say he will again not win.
So, who is Tybring-Gjedde? He’s described as a populist conservative (or what passes for that in Norway), but he adds:
“I’m not a big Trump supporter,” he said. “The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts – not on the way he behaves sometimes. The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump. For example, Barack Obama did nothing.”
Indeed, Obama got the Prize for just being Obama and getting elected. That was very early in his presidency. Later, the things he did regarding foreign policy were not “nothing,” however. For the most part, they were awful.
The commenters on the article describing this at Pravda-on-the-Potomac were most definitely not amused in the slightest. I counted several references to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Of the myriad articles related to Trump or any conservative topic I have perused on WaPo, the percentage of comments which are well-argued (not hysterical or blatantly ad hominem) is consistently (and all too predictably) very small indeed.
Post Obama, the award is not quite as meaningful.
https://www.ihatethemedia.com/mmmmm-free-nobel-peace-prize-with-an-order-of-shrimp-tacos
Frames of reference have shifted across reality.
Trump could facilitate a stable peace between Israel and the Palestinians and TDS would prevent the usual suspects from acknowledging his achievements.
If Trump gets even one he will be lucky because in that unlikely scenario he will probably share the prize so as to dilute it as much as possible.
Lizard – thanks for the link; there were several interesting posts on that site.
CBS News called the Norwegian “right-wing” though he disagrees with most of Trump’s positions (if you check his interview with the Sun, a Brit paper).
j e on: never forget who owns the WaPo.
Related news, Paul Sperry Of the NYPost tweets that Walid Phares — a Christian immigrant from Lebanon— has a new book coming out in three weeks:
BREAKING: Ex-Trump campaign adviser Walid Phares, who was secretly targeted by Comey FBI in #Spygate scandal, releasing new book late Sept–“The Choice”–on how Obama holdovers have tried to derail the America First foreign policy of Trump administration for its entire first term.
We forget early half-term Trump successes like swiftly putting down ISIS, which Obama said would take years. And with the virus crisis, we forget about boxing in Iran, the greatest fountainhead of terrorism since 1979.
I’ll be greatly surprised if the Noble Prize for Peace is awarded to Pres. Trump. Nor will the committee lose a moments sleep over their hypocrisy. As when has revealing their hypocrisy ever dissuaded them?
Pres. Trump could negotiate a deal in which he, Mahmoud Abbas, and Netenyahu each donated a kidney to save the lives of each other’s children, and he still would not be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. They’d award one posthumously to Pol Pot first.
Cicero: But of course. By the same token — see what I did there? — the left keep thinking it’s a good tactic to publicize and prop up any tired old puppet to the right of Mao who’s willing to repeat the same recycled pablum about how “TRUMP IS NOT A *REAL* CONSERVATIVE”. As if it matters one iota. But they think if someone on “your side” says not to trust the Bad Orange Man because he’s not really “one of you”, we stupid conservatives will lap that up like a dog returning to vomit. Well, I’m not conservative. I’m not Republican. I’m right wing, and the left and the neocons can take their false equivalencies and hypocrisies and double standards and cram it up themselves until they choke on it. I’m done playing the childish libertarian game of pretending “both sides are just as bad”. At this point, a vote for Trump isn’t just a vote for Western civilization, it’s a vote for civilization period. Do you like flush toilets and clean running water? Then don’t vote Democrat.
Trump has a better chance of being in prison or murdered than winning a Nobel prize next year.
I smile at the memory of Obama & Michelle flying over to Europe (early in his first term) to charm the Olympics Committee into having the next games at their “home” city of Chicago. Soooooo much confidence in their–Cough!!!–charisma… NOPE. Sent home with tails tucked ‘tween legs.
Soooooo many failures to come.
Given the “Narrative” and those who swear allegiance to it (and what roles they play in the global arena), I wouldn’t think Trump has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning that honor.
Don’t think it matters much either.
What is more interesting/crucial to me than a Nobel Peace Prize (the value and meaning of which has been, as already mentioned, irrevocably diluted) is whether the Democratic Party is going to choose to implode in the next three month—i.e., implode even further than it already has—or whether that party will in fact be elected so as to officially implement, and accelerate, America’s implosion.
Which, to me, is far, far more important than what happens in Stockholm or Oslo.
Meanwhile, the Democrats continue with their destructive ploys…
https://www.theepochtimes.com/democratic-senators-block-gop-narrow-ccp-virus-aid-package_3495376.html
…so that it’s becoming almost impossible to know at this point if the Democrats are playing by Palestinian Rules or the Palestinians are playing by Democratic Party rules.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16486/merchants-palestinian-issue
But perhaps that doesn’t matter all that much either. At this point.
“it’s becoming almost impossible to know at this point if the Democrats are playing by Palestinian Rules or the Palestinians are playing by Democratic Party rules.” – Barry
Or perhaps they are both playing by someone else’s rules?
A third deal was announced today. However, any group that voted to award the prize to Obama simply for existing isn’t going to give it to Trump. For one thing, they’d lose all their liberal street cred with their buddies.