[The Federalist] Just one day after the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack by Hamas, it was announced that Israel and Hamas accepted the terms of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war.
It was a feat that then-President Joe Biden could not accomplish. In fact, it was a feat that no other world leader could accomplish in the course of two years. And yet Trump, in 10 months, has ended a devastating war. Such a breakthrough would certainly warrant the Nobel Peace Prize.
But on Friday it was announced that Venezuelan opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado won the award. Notably, Machado dedicated her award to Trump "for his decisive support of our cause."
Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes suggested Friday that Trump didn’t win the award — not simply because he missed the nomination deadline, which was in January — but because he lacked "courage and integrity."
"This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel," Frydnes said when asked about the push for Trump to be given the award following the historic peace deal.
Perhaps, then, if the commission bases its decision on the "work and will of Alfred Nobel" it makes sense that Trump was not awarded the prize because Nobel was a Jew-hater. |