Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was nominated on Tuesday for the Nobel Peace Prize for the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The nomination was submitted on Monday by Lord David Trimble, the former first minister of Northern Ireland. Trimble, who sees many similarities between the Good Friday Agreement [ending political conflict in Northern Ireland], and Israel’s peace deals with its Arab neighbors, nominated both Netanyahu and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed for next year’s prize.
Trimble himself won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his part in the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a pair of agreements signed on April 10, 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, a political conflict in Northern Ireland that had ensued since the late 1960s.
Drawing from his own experience of devastating conflict between neighbors, Trimble wrote: “I know from my own experience how dangerous, damaging and corrosive are decades of violent ill will between close neighbors.”
The Prime Minister’s Office reported the nomination on Tuesday and noted that the Nobel Prize Committee will be inclined to consider the nomination since Trimble is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Go for it, and invite President Donald Trump to give the key note address at the awards ceremony.
This Nobel Peace Prize is the biggest joke in the world. Not the biggest chiddush, especially if this is something awarded to animals like Arafat & Co. but not to a President Trump who made this AMAZING peace process possible, something no other US president was capable of
Al tismach Yisroel el gil b’amim
KA-a mmim
If it holds for a year, than I would agree 100 percent. A bit too early to break out the champagne.
Begin and Sadat won the 1978 Nobel peace prize for the treaty they signed in 1979.
I guess there’s no minimum amount of time that the treaty has to hold.