Kushner nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Alan Dershowitz

[Nevilledog]

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Andrew Feinberg
@AndrewFeinberg
Nominated by none other than @AlanDersh

Kushner, Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel deals
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, were nominated on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in negotiating four normalization deals between Israel...
reuters.com
8:44 PM · Jan 31, 2021

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-kushner-nobel-idUSKBN2A116X

[DURHAM D]

1. Going to nominate my mail carrier.

She has had a tough year.

[tavernier]

2. Hahahahahahahaha!!

I love a hearty laugh before going to sleep!

[Atticus]

32. You beat me to it! "Great minds---" nt

[Karma13612]

3. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 eom

[Mz Pip]

4. I'm nominating my cat.

He keeps me peaceful

[PersianStar]

13. I second your cat's nomination :-)

[Gothmog]

5. How does the Dershowitz have the ability to nominate anyone?

[Nevilledog]

14. From the article

Nominating the pair of former deputies to then-President Donald Trump was American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School.

[SergeStorms]

26. I've said before...

Harvard should break all ties with Douchowitz. His antics are giving Harvard a bad name.

[Solly Mack]

6. Was he wearing his underwear when he did this?

[dchill]

20. Why do they always leave out the crucial details?

[Solly Mack]

21. To keep us guessing?

[Me.]

7. Sickening Really

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. My two beagles are more deserving of the prize than he is

[RainCaster]

24. My two beagles would refuse it...

... if they had to get off the couch to accept it.

[elleng]

10. THAT's a pair!!!

[electric_blue68]

11. gak! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😠

[Freethinker65]

12. Trading weapons and military aircraft for temporary recognition of Israel.How peaceful.

[smirkymonkey]

15. WTF?

It's official...

[Dem2]

16. d'oh

[Corgigal]

17. If that is what it takes,

to bribe him for our missing 20 million Covid vaccine doses..

[UTUSN]

18. Every day a farce topping the previous one! - What to think: If the far fetched thing happened,

DRUMPF would be nuclear over KUSHNER's getting it instead of him and take it out on Teh Dersh, no? Or did Dersh do it to get back at DRUMPF (possibly?) for not getting a pardon ticket out of the EPSTEIN trials? Or, the least complicated answer: All about Israel.

[moondust]

19. Jack Dorsey deserves it.

For cutting off the drug supply to millions of addicts.

[notinkansas]

22. Reading the title -

I thought for sure this was something from the Borowitz Report or the Onion.

[Lucinda]

23. FFS

[dalton99a]

25. Prince Bone Saw concurs.

[smirkymonkey]

27. What a creepy photo!

That one is going to end up on the cover of a book one of these days.

[oasis]

28. "Will you walk into my parlor" said the spider to the fly.

[VarryOn]

29. I just can't see the Prize Committee awarding someone like him...

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the Prize. There's nothing he could have done to get the support of a committee of European politicians and intellectuals with the taint of Trump on him.

And if somehow he did win (there probably is a price whereby it could be bought), it's not as big a deal as it once was. Back in the 90's, they made Arafat a winner, along with Peres and Rabin. Making him a laureate knocked some of the shine off the prize for me.

[moonscape]

30. Someone nominated Trump also. Probably John Barron. n/t

[Gothmog]

31. You, too, can become a Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Getting nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is evidently not that difficult https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/01/you-too-can-become-nobel-peace-prize-nominee/

To the average reader, the news seems weighty. Former White House adviser (and presidential son-in-law) Jared Kushner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in helping to shepherd peace deals between Israel and several Arab nations. The Peace Prize holds an outsized role in the public imagination, the ultimate indicator of the positive role a human being can play in the world. And here, it seems, the award might be on its way to Kushner — among the more polarizing figures in American politics over the past four years.

Except that he almost certainly won't win it, any more than his father-in-law was likely to after his own nominations last year. As it turns out, while a Nobel Peace Prize nomination is a bit trickier than simply sending a guy in Norway a postcard with someone's name on it, it's not much trickier than that. A nomination is, in essence, as serious as the person doing the submitting — who is a member of a not-particularly-rarified group of people.

Before we explain how you, too, can earn a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, it's worth letting a bit of air out of the award itself. Yes, it is an important designator of efforts to shape the world for the better. But it is not itself a guarantee either of the moral purity of its recipients or of the security of their accomplishments. As Reuters broke the news about Kushner's nomination, the news organization was elsewhere reporting on a coup in Myanmar, during which the country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was imprisoned by the military.

[dalton99a]

34. +1

[Nevilledog]

36. ...

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[LeftInTX]

33. Former nominees:

Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler

[dalton99a]

35. And Putin and Trump