Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first part of Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. It is the biggest breakthrough for peace in the two-year conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
It is indelibly associated with Donald Trump, who is open about his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Not everybody agrees he deserves it. Critics point to his notoriously combative political style, his attempts to deploy the US military to his own cities on seemingly spurious grounds, and they say his peacemaking efforts are significantly oversold.
The counter-argument, often made by Trump himself, is that he has helped end numerous conflicts including ones between India and Pakistan and Thailand and Cambodia. Then there are the 2020 Abraham Accords, which normalised diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab and African states.
So should Donald Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize? The i Paper’s experts offer their perspectives.
Adam Boulton: ‘Trump should win it – for the rest of our sakes’
Donald Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He is not a peacemaker. His claims to have brought peace in eight alleged conflicts are risible. He has brought violent strife to the streets of the nation over which he provides. He has re-named his Defence Department the Department of War.
But… in the interests of the world it may well be worth rewarding his frankly embarrassing cupidity for gold and glorification. The Nobel award would be honouring the “deal” which has delivered phase one of the peace process, halted the dreadful carnage in Gaza for now and seems set to deliver the release of the Israeli hostages and the Palestinian prisoners.
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Contemptible as it may seem, Trump’s desire to match Barack Obama in the gongs league table has been a significant motivation in his efforts to commit the US administration to its role as the big-stick wielding broker to force peacemaking concessions from both sides. He has made concessions too – the outcome envisaged in the 20-point peace plan is far from the Gaza Riviera he dreamed of.
The Nobel committee has been expedient in the past – remember Henry Kissinger and Vietnam? Give Trump the prize now and worry later what further golden carrots the international community is going to offer to keep the greedy orange baby on the right track in the Middle East.
Adam Boulton presents Sunday Morning on Times Radio. He is a columnist for The i Paper
Sarah Baxter: ‘Peacemaker abroad, but a warmonger at home’
Hallelujah. Peace has broken out between Israel and Gaza and the ceasefire deal comes branded with the Donald Trump name, like all his real estate.
Chairman Trump – he will like that title – may soon preside over the Board of Peace tasked with rebuilding a new Gaza, aided by former British PM, Tony Blair.
Plenty of dealmakers have received the Nobel Peace prize for less. There is no doubt Trump cajoled and bullied Israel into a settlement by leveraging his friendships with Arab leaders.
But it would be grotesque to award him the prize while US troops are being turned on the “enemy within”. The president is playing the peacemaker abroad, but the warmonger at home.
The Texas national guard has been sent to Chicago (Photo: Jacek Boczarsk/Anadolu via Getty)“We’re under invasion from within,” he said. “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
He added, menacingly, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course there goes your rank, there goes your future.”
The Texas national guard has just been sent to Chicago over the objections of the Illinois governor. More Democrat-run strongholds are in his crosshairs.
Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act – effectively declaring martial law – to sidestep legal objections to widening the fight.
If peace in the Middle East holds, Trump can receive the Nobel prize next year. But not if he unleashes war at home.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Centre for International Reporting
Matt Frei: ‘Yes – let’s weaponise the Prize’
This year the Nobel Committee have the chance to weaponise the vanity of a President who wants to make “more history” than his predecessor Barack Obama. Trump is obsessed with improving on Obama’s record. Consequently he has pursued the prize like a Manhattan real estate deal.
He has finally – and yes belatedly – pushed Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, over the line because he was upset that his stable peace-making genius was yielding no results in Ukraine or in the Middle East. He was particularly aggrieved when Netanyahu took his support for granted and bombed Hamas headquarters in Qatar. So he pulled the cord and channelled Roy Logan from Succession with a two word message. Israel was forced to listen.
The deal that is about to become reality is fledgling, but significant and it would not have happened without Trump’s temper.
That alone should qualify him for the prize given that the competition for the accolade is very slim this year. But crucially I would whisper that Trump might even get another prize next year if he made sure that the Israelis don’t roll back on their commitments and if he also managed to pressure Russia into a peace that is acceptable for Ukraine.
Like an historic second state visit to the UK it would be something he could put on his gilded Oval Office mantle piece. Only in this case it’s also an incentive. It would give Trump the satisfaction of improving on Obama’s record. It would make his Mount Rushmore sized vanity serve the global good. It’s a gamble. But why not. We are all in the last chance saloon.
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and presenter at Channel 4 News
Jane Merrick: ‘Trump has been the catalysing force that was needed’
Yes, of course Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
There are many reasons why the US president does not deserve to win: his treatment of his political opponents at home is deeply concerning, and the way he ambushed Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office earlier this year was unbefitting of a world statesman.
There are also plenty of other people who have been working behind the scenes to bring peace to Gaza who should get recognition: mediators from Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, NGOs working in impossible conditions on the ground, families of Israeli hostages campaigning for their release.
It also looks technically difficult for Trump to win the prize this year, when it is announced on Friday morning. The deadline for nominations for this year was January, the month he came to office.
Yet more than anyone else, Trump has been the catalysing force which has brought Benjamin Netanyahu to the brink of ending the war.
A person wearing a mask depicting Donald Trump holds US and Israeli flags at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv (Photo: Maya Levin/AFP)Trump’s claim to have ended seven wars globally this year is questionable, and his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, by holding a summit with Vladimir Putin, have so far failed.
It also remains to be seen whether this peace plan for Gaza holds. But the US president is still the most influential person in the world who can knock heads together to stop the fighting in Gaza and elsewhere, and for that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Merrick is Policy Editor at the The i Paper
Alistair Bunkall: ‘Obama won it for far less’
Donald Trump often gives the impression that he cares more about the Nobel Peace Prize than actual peace itself.
Whatever his motive however, this Gaza deal would not have happened without him. His decision to finally push Netanyahu and Hamas to an agreement, even before all points are agreed upon, has worked for now, and he should be given credit for that.
It’s too early though, and there are too many unresolved issues to be confident this is a deal that will stick.
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Two previous ceasefires collapsed and it’s also hard to forget his earlier suggestion that Palestinians should be forced to leave Gaza and the territory tuned into an American-owned riviera.
Trump shouldn’t be expected to solve every world conflict in order to be considered for a Nobel prize, Obama won it for far less in 2009, but Trump did campaign on the promise to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of entering office and ten months later he hasn’t succeeded.
This year’s award might come too soon for the President who craves recognition, but if peace in Gaza holds and progress is made in Ukraine, then who could seriously rule him out next year?
Alistair Bunkall is a foreign correspondent at Sky News
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