A Republican lawmaker has nominated former President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) nominated President Trump for his efforts to promote peace and cooperation among Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through the Abraham Accords.
“Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,“ she said. ”For decades, bureaucrats, foreign policy ‘professionals,’ and international organizations insisted that additional Middle East peace agreements were impossible without a resolution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. President Trump proved that to be false. 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.”
Previous Nominations and Awards
When Israel and Egypt signed a peace agreement in 1978, the leaders of those countries were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The same happened with the Oslo Accords in 1994. However, the Abraham Accords continue to be neglected by the Nobel Committee, according to Ms. Tenney.“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,“ she said. ”I am honored to nominate former President Donald Trump today and am eager for him to receive the recognition he deserves.”
Ms. Tenney’s nomination has garnered support online.
“Under President Trump, peace in the Middle East was a reality. My colleague @RepTenney is right. Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the historic Abraham Accords!” Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) said in a Jan. 30 post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Constitutional law attorney Jenna Ellis also commented in an X post.
“He actually deserves this. No new wars and the Abraham Accords,” she wrote.
A group of four Australian law professors also nominated him for the “Trump doctrine,” or his approach to foreign policy.
Trump and Abraham Accords
Before the Abraham Accords, four of the signatory nations—Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the UAE—had a general hostility to Israel, Jason Greenblatt, who was part of the Trump administration team that pulled off the agreement, said in a 2022 interview with The Epoch Times.
After the accords were signed, these nations opened up travel, trade, and communication with the Jewish state.
“What all of us had was the trust of Donald Trump,” Mr. Greenblatt said. “We had a businessman’s approach and a legal approach, not a diplomatic approach. We were always diplomatic, but we weren’t constrained by years of diplomatic talks and certain talking points and rigid criteria by which people always felt this problem could be resolved.”
Since President Joe Biden assumed office, no other Middle East nation has signed on to the Abraham Accords.
“You would have had every country sign, including possibly Iran, into the Abraham Accords if the election wasn’t rigged,“ he said. ”By this time, you would have had every country—Saudi Arabia, and maybe even Iran—signed.”
The former president also criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the ongoing Israel–Gaza tensions, which threatened to upend peace in the Middle East.
If President Trump had been in office, the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack against Israel “never would have happened,” he said.
“We would have taken much more decisive action if it did,“ President Trump said. ”I don’t understand these people.”
