New Delhi: Former US President Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. His name was put forward by Republican congresswoman Claudia Tenney, citing “historic” Abraham Accords treaty that was signed during his presidency.
According to Tenney, Trump played a crucial role in cracking the deal signed in September 2020 between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, which aimed at normalising their ties as part of a larger goal to address ongoing tensions in the Middle East between Arab countries and Israel. Later, Morocco and Sudan signed similar agreements.
“Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,” Tenney said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “For decades, bureaucrats, foreign policy ‘professionals’, and international organisations insisted that additional Middle East peace agreements were impossible without a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Trump proved that to be false.”
This comes amid soaring tensions in the Middle East and after the death of three US soldiers in a drone strike.
The Nobel Peace Prize recognised the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978, as well as the Oslo Accords in 1994. However, Tenney highlighted that no one ever acknowledged Trump’s involvement in facilitating a deal between Israel and four of its Arab neighbours.
“The valiant efforts by President Trump in creating the Abraham Accords were unprecedented and continue to go unrecognized by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, underscoring the need for his nomination today. Now more than ever, when Joe Biden’s weak leadership on the international stage is threatening our country’s safety and security, we must recognize Trump for his strong leadership and his efforts to achieve world peace,” Tenney stressed.
Notably, Trump has been nominated thrice for the coveted prize thrice before. In 2018, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a Norwegian Parliament member, nominated him for his global conflict resolution resume in 2020.
Laura Huhtasaari, member of the right-wing Swedish Finns Party, nominated him for the award in 2021 “in recognition of his endeavors to end the era of endless wars, construct peace by encouraging conflicting parties for dialogue and negotiations, as well as underpin internal cohesion and stability of his country,” according to Fox News Digital.
In 2020, a group of Australian parliamentarians nominated the former president for the third time, citing his caution in putting the United States in wars.
