Calling US President Donald Trump the "President of peace", the Israeli Parliament today announced that it will rally support across the world to submit Trump's candidacy for a Nobel Peace Prize next year.
Calling US President Donald Trump the "President of peace", the Israeli Parliament on Monday announced that it will rally support across the world to submit Trump's candidacy for a Nobel Peace Prize next year. This comes days after the US President, whose wish to win the Nobel honour, was snubbed as Venezuelan leader Maria Corina Machado won the award.
“There is no one more deserving for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana said, adding he will work together with US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to urge leaders worldwide to nominate President Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Amir Ohana praised the US President for his role in brokering the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, paving the way for the release of Israeli hostages in Hamas's captivity and Palestinian prisoners in Israel's jails.
"President Trump, you are the president of peace. There was not a single person on this planet who did more than you to advance peace. No one even came close," Ohana said after the Knesset gave a standing ovation to the US President.
"Your election to the presidency marked a turning point, not only for the United States, but for the entire world. Through your strength of character and unwavering resolve, you brought an end to bloody conflicts in no fewer than eight regions across the globe. In less than nine months, you became one of the most consequential presidents in history," he said.
"You saved countless lives that would have been lost without your leadership... You have proven that true peace is achieved through strength, and that only those who are prepared to use force in the present can prevent the need to use it in the future," Ohana said.
Ohana began his speech by saying Trump is not just "another American president," but a "giant of Jewish history - one for whom we must look back two and a half millennia into the mists of time to find a parallel, in Cyrus the Great."
What Benjamin Netanyahu said
Addressing the Knesset, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv did what it had to do to defend its people, with heroic soldiers who "fought like lions". He thanked Trump for Operation Rising Lion and Operation Midnight Hammer, airstrikes carried out by Israel and Iran, respectively, against Iran. Netanyahu thanked Trump for standing up against "lies against Israel" at the UN.
