For Trump, the only thing that counts is the law of the strongest. In the end he likes to pose as the most determined of all the bad guys. That’s why Trump is actually “okay” with Hamas executing people in the Gaza Strip. It is less important than its external image.
Incidentally, this generally applies to his actions, as the experience from his full term of office and the current one shows: Nothing is important to this man. Not peace anywhere in the world, not the future of the Middle East, not the rights of people within the US or anywhere else in the world. Everything is “okay” as long as it serves Trump. His poll numbers, his election results, his propaganda and his lies.
Donald Trump wanted to become President of the United States. And the Americans democratically elected him to this office. There is nothing to explain about that. There is a certain irony in the fact that the king of opportunists rules a nation that likes to celebrate itself as a “land of opportunity.”
However, you don’t get the Nobel Peace Prize by pressuring voters with your own stories with the help of compliant social media magnates. Perhaps humanity’s most important prize goes to anyone who works for sustainable peace, for better living conditions for everyone, for a better world.
There is nothing sustainable about Donald Trump’s peace in the Middle East. People continue to kill and die there. All fuses are lit. Donald Trump has forced the disputing parties into their corners with the power of the strongest. Hamas is not disarmed; there is no neutral protective force that ensures law and order. Israel’s harsh actions against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip have not been addressed. Neither party signed the symbolic peace declaration on Monday. This is therefore not worth the paper it was written on.
But he doesn’t deserve the prize. Never, ever. Not this year, because there is no peace in the Middle East as long as the death of seven people is simply “okay”. And not in the future, because anyone who doesn’t care so much about democracy and human rights is completely unsuitable to receive the prize that was always denied to the Indian peacemaker Mahatma Gandhi.
