New: Nobel Committee Snubs President Trump

redstate.com

The White House has accused the Nobel Peace Prize committee of choosing “politics over peace” after Donald Trump lost out on the award.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the award to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician in hiding, despite heavy-handed lobbying from the US president and his supporters.
Mr Trump claims to have ended seven wars and his 20-point peace plan for the Middle East has been the basis of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after their two-year conflict.

The president ended seven wars. He did that. He has been more successful in helping bring an end to armed conflicts than any president in American history - in global history. Only on Thursday, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece by Marc A. Thiessen, who made quite an eloquent argument for President Trump to receive the Peace Prize. The president himself has routinely argued that he deserves the prize.

But his name still didn't ring any bells in Oslo. Now, I'm sure Maria Corina Machado has done fine work as well, but it's hard to draw a comparison on scale.

Ms Machado was honoured on Friday “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the chairman of the committee, in Oslo.
Nicknamed Venezuela’s “Iron Lady”, Mr Frydnes added that she was a “unifying figure” in the country’s deeply divided political opposition and is one of “the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times”.

You know, that's great. Good for her. I would never imply that someone who tirelessly opposes the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro doesn't deserve recognition. She's courageous and determined, and in most years, would be a great choice for the Nobel.

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But let's not kid ourselves about the reason the Nobel people snubbed President Trump. This was a political statement.

The committee’s role is to award the peace prize to the figure, or group, that has done the most to “promote fraternity between nations”, in keeping with the will of Alfred Nobel.
Two days before the committee announced a winner, Mr Trump declared he had secured “peace in the Middle East” after brokering the agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the two-year conflict.

If it comes to "promoting fraternity between nations," how do you surpass the Abraham Accords? That was President Trump's baby.

Now, this Telegraph piece claims that the award is one that President Trump has "openly coveted for years," and they may well have a point. The larger point is that the Nobel Peace Prize has been declining in international relevance for decades, certainly since they awarded one to Yasser Arafat. Arafat, we might remember, openly supported terrorists.

And, of course, Oslo gave the Peace Prize to President Obama, for... what? Existing? Former President Obama had, at the time he was selected, done nothing on the international scale. He had not brokered or assisted in one single peace deal. Anywhere. And during his two terms, after receiving the Nobel, his record on these things remained underwhelming.

President Trump has ended or aided in the ending of seven wars around the globe. And his name still rings no bells in Oslo.

The Nobel is declining in relevance, year by year. This is yet another example of why that is.

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