Jared Kushner, the White House adviser to former President Trump, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday over his efforts to negotiate negotiations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and other countries in the region over a turbulent four-month period year.
Reuters reported that Kushner and Avi Berkowitz, his former deputy, were nominated by Alan Dershowitz, the emeritus professor at Harvard Law School. Reuters called the deals the “most important diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East in 25 years”, and many Trump supporters said the media had reduced their scope to undermine its chances of re-election.
The Trump administration has mediated peace agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Kushner told Fox News in October that there had been “people in Washington for 30, 40 years” who “could never work on a single foreign transaction”.
He joked that peace agreements “are much more difficult than President Trump makes them seem.”
Kushner said ‘people have been very critical of the president for the past three years for everything he does … but the reality is that he has taken a different approach to how to deal with Washington, he has a different approach in the Middle East followed and he thought it well. results.”
Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in the autumn during a festive White House ceremony in celebration of the “Abraham Accords”, a pair of US-authorized diplomatic suspects with Israel. While the UAE’s agreement with Israel formally restrained, the agreement with Bahrain was less detailed and contained a mutual promise to follow suit.
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The Palestinians have broken ties with the White House of Trump, accusing it of being unfairly biased against Israel. U.S. officials, in turn, have been cultivating ties between Israel and Arab states, hoping to increase pressure on the Palestinians to reduce earlier demands in peace talks.
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According to the Reuters report, President Biden is reviewing Trump’s deals, saying it is unclear whether Trump’s withdrawal from the White House will hurt Kushner’s chances of receiving the award.
Dershowitz said in a statement to Fox News: “The Nobel Peace Prize is not for popularity. Nor is it an assessment of what the international community might think of those who helped bring about peace. It is’ an award for fulfilling the frightening criteria set forth by Alfred Nobel in his will.These men, and the agreement with Abraham, help them to better meet these criteria than any other person or group eligible for the award. ‘
Fox News’ Talia Kaplan and Associated Press contribute to this report