Netanyahu Nominates Trump for Peace Prize
Netanyahu’s Peace Prize stunt: Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a letter nominating President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize due to the “pivotal role” Trump has played in establishing greater diplomatic ties between nations in the Middle East. The American president has “created new opportunities to expand the circle of peace and normalization,” according to Netanyahu—Trump’s partner in bombing Iran last month.
To be fair to Netanyahu, he is not citing Trump’s role in the Iran nuclear site bombing campaign but rather his role—back in 2020, during his first term—in negotiating the Abraham Accords, which established formal ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. (Trump has also worked on getting Saudi Arabia to join, but that effort has stalled for now.) “The accords were a diplomatic victory for Israel, in part because the Arab states abandoned their longstanding condition that relations with Israel could only come after the establishment of a Palestinian state,” notes The New York Times.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Prime Minister Netanyahu gave @POTUS @realDonaldTrump the letter of nomination during their White House meeting. pic.twitter.com/ayGSHoEcmH
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) July 8, 2025
“I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last month. “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia … and I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords,” he lamented.
Netanyahu appears to be buttering him up as part of their meeting in D.C. “He’s forging peace, as we speak, in one country in the region after another,” Netanyahu said of his dining companion on Monday. Trump implied his decision to bomb Iran was akin to the U.S. dropping the atomic bomb on Japan to end World War II.
“I don’t want to say what it reminded me of,” he said, “But if you go back a long time ago, it reminded people of a certain other event.”
“Harry Truman’s picture is now in the lobby, in a nice location in the lobby, where it should have been—but that stopped, a lot of fighting. And this stopped a lot of fighting.”
But Netanyahu and Trump aren’t just focused on flattery. At issue is their joint approach toward Iran in the aftermath of the strikes—specifically, what tack to take with regard to Iran’s nuclear program—and hammering out a ceasefire agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas. As Trump exerts influence on Netanyahu, mediators are helping representatives from both sides of the war hammer out a possible deal in Qatar.
Sticking points so far: Hamas wants the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an aid group backed by Israel, to stop handing out food in the Strip; Hamas contends tha
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