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While you were enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz was toying with nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s a remarkably poor idea, but you’ve got to hand it to Professor Dershowitz for consistently coming up with provocative topics for his call-in show.
Should I nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his involvement in the Abraham Accords? I can nominate because I'm a professor emeritus at Harvard. What do you think I should do? Call 24/7 216-710-0050. Pls subscribe to the Dershow.https://t.co/CwXmGpriyP
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) November 25, 2020
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The Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain. Unlike the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt or the Israel-Jordan Treaty — both of which involved settling relations between countries that had actively gone to war with each other — the Abraham Accords settled Israel’s relations with a pair of countries that had mostly sat on the sidelines of past conflicts. Hitting singles is important, but they give Peace Prizes to people who bash dingers.
And that’s a more charitable review than Israeli newspaper Haaretz gave the agreement that is — incredibly — touted by the Trump administration as a signature accomplishment.
The end result was a bunch of statements in support of global peace of the type normally made by winners of the Miss Universe pageant – which was once presided over by the same man who presided over these peace initiatives, U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Bizarrely, Trump has already been nominated for the Peace Prize based on the Abraham Accords. Far right-wing Norwegian politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde has nominated Trump twice, most recently on the back of this agreement, and the committee found the nomination as specious as one might suspect.
But just because a proposition is demonstrably ill-considered doesn’t mean it’s not a great topic for a show! On that note, what’s on tap for the next Dershow:
Trump was absolutely right to pardon General Flynn. (Corrected link) How will this affect future pardons?
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