At first, I truthfully thought it was a sick joke.
It’s hard to assume something more dystopian: A pacesetter engaged in what many consider a genocide nominating considered one of the leaders supporting it for an award that recognises a commitment to global peace.
But – bafflingly – it’s true.
On the White House yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he’d nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
And it got here on the day that Israel’s defence minister unveiled plans to force your complete remaining population of Gaza to live in a camp on the ruins of Rafah.
The predominant architects of this bloody dystopian plan, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, must be global pariahs, not talking about Nobel Peace Prizes with smiles on their faces at a elaborate dinner table in the center of western democracy.
It’s hard to overstate how unsuitable someone like the present US President is for a reward designed to have fun those that have worked tirelessly to determine and maintain peace.
It is a president who has presided over chaos and atrocity each domestically and globally.
He has spearheaded a cruel assault on migrants – ordering authorities to perform the ‘single largest mass deportation programme in history’.
Just last week, Trump gave his approval to the Alligator Alcatraz detention centre in Florida (which has been likened to a concentration camp) designed to carry hundreds of migrants within the midst of dangerous infested swamps – even celebrating the incontrovertible fact that the power is guarded by ‘cops in the shape of alligators’.
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He’s the one US president to have been impeached twice – and allow us to not forget what happened when he encouraged his supporters to disregard the democratic consequence of the 2020 election.
Within the international arena, Trump has blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia, and praised Putin.
Does a frontrunner who just last month almost ignited World War III by bombing Iran really should receive the globe’s most prestigious peace prize?
And is a frontrunner who still rains death and destruction down on Gaza really one of the best person to be nominating him?
Who has previously won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Famous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize include Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Marie Curie and Malala Yousafzai.
Above all this, it’s the continuing slaughter in Gaza, which has claimed over 55,000 lives – and each Netanyahu and Trump’s primary roles on this campaign against the Palestinian people – that makes this nomination something more sinister than mere satire.
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Netanyahu’s very public nomination wasn’t just political theatre, it was an insidious show of power: A message to the world that Israel and America can flout international law, preside over the massacre tens of hundreds of Palestinians and obliterate most of a complete section of the map with complete impunity – even having the audacity to call themselves peacemakers in the method.
After all, a US president standing with Israel is nothing recent. Israel has long been the most important recipient of US aid, receiving a whole lot of billions of dollars because the state was founded in 1948, much to the consternation of some on a regular basis Americans who can’t afford homes or healthcare.
But Trump has done greater than just write cheques.
His administration has clamped down on pro-Palestine campus protests inside American universities, sought to deport overseas students who’ve vocally advocated for Palestine and punished institutions that allowed protests to go ahead.
Trump’s designs for Palestine don’t have anything to do with peace.
In February, Trump shared an AI generated video of Gaza cleared of Palestinians, and become a luxury seafront resort, full of western tourists sipping cocktails, bellydancers acting on the beach and money raining from the sky as he sunbathed with Netanyahu.
Trump’s post went beyond his usual trolling. It was a blueprint for ethnic cleansing. From the person now being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
After all, this isn’t all about Trump.
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Netanyahu is actively engaged in what each the UN and Amnesty International has deemed a genocide. There may be an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest for alleged war crimes.
Under Netanyahu’s orders, Gazans are dying of hunger due to blockade on aid. Israeli forces have shot, killing and injuring, already ravenous Palestinians queuing for food.
Despite protestations from Israel that they’re targeting the Hamas agents who perpetrated the horrors of October 7, in point of fact it is a sustained campaign of assault against a civilian population, half of whom are under 18.
Around 70% of the dead in Gaza are reported to be women and kids.
What we’re witnessing in Gaza is beyond unconscionable.
It’s a stain on our collective morality as a world that we’re watching a genocide being live-streamed through our screens via social media, while our leaders not only fund and support it, but penalise and criminalise those that stand against these crimes.
If anyone deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, it’s those willing to risk every part to carry our complicit leaders to account.
Until then, Trump and Netanyahu’s sick joke won’t leave anyone laughing.
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