Jared Kushner nominated for Nobel peace prize

[Teddy Beer]

Source: The Guardian

Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize for their role in negotiating four normalisation deals between Israel and Arab nations known as the “Abraham Accords”.

Kushner, who is Trump’s son-in-law, and Berkowitz, who was the Middle East envoy, were key figures in negotiating deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

The two former deputies to then-President Donald Trump were nominated by American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School. Dershowitz defended Trump in his first impeachment trial last year and told the Wall Street Journal on 20 January that the Senate should dismiss the article of impeachment against the former president, as he was no longer in office.

Among others nominated for the prize this year are Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. All were backed by Norwegian lawmakers who have a track record of picking the winner.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/01/jared-kushner-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize

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[Squinch]

1. Just having that name on the same list as Navalny is disgusting.

[Magoo48]

15. Same way I feel about seeing his name with, Greta.

[ananda]

24. same as BLM also disgusting.

same as a sharktoothed lungwort disgusting

ad infinitum

[raccoon]

2. Well, the Nobel peace prize isn't worth anything any more. Nt

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[lark]

33. I disagree.

Every year bad actors are nominated and they never get through, neither will Kushners' faux plaudits.

[Journeyman]

60. Henry Kissinger, 1973 . . .

It's been nothing but a useless bauble since.

[lark]

70. Yeah, there are some aberrations, but overall they generally do well, IMO. n/t

[niyad]

37. Nominated, not awarded. Nominated by Dershowitz, does not mean Nobel acts on it.

[raccoon]

39. Thank you. Nt

[Cozmo]

61. So true. What are the chances they would win? Forgetaboutit

[TexasTowelie]

3. Well, if Jared won it would piss off the father-in-law since that Noble (sic) prize belongs to him.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Can you imagine.....

THAT 'family dinner' when Jared comes home with the Nobel Prize and IQ45 flies into a rage and takes the medal from him!

[jaxexpat]

22. Donnie would simply co-opt Jared's award ......

and ascertain that Jared is always last in line and receives the least at meals and Christmas, forever. He would do well to sleep with one eye open until the Donald is gone.

Also, should Jared receive a Nobel prize then Alfred Nobel should be exhumed and punished.

[Eugene]

4. Nominated by Alan "Torture Warrants" Dershowitz...

suuure.

[RVN VET71]

31. I had all but forgotten the "torture warrants"

Shep Smith was still on Fox when, during one of those Fox fascist-news group-hug shows where morons were drooling and slavering over the thought of giving excruciating pain to brown people, he slammed his hand on the table and shouted “This is America! And America does not fucking torture!” The fascists, of course, were shocked! Shocked, I tell you, that one of their own [he was never really one of them] would interrupt a pleasant conversation about the benefits of beating, choking, waterboarding, and starving prisoners with such language!

Smith, of course, has long since left Fox although his departure was years after his comments about America and torture. He was the only newscaster on the network with a consistently level head. Chris Wallace has since emerged as a voice of reason (at times).

But Dershowitz, yes, with that ugly attempt at sanctifying torture with the cloak of law, proved to the world what a worthless scumbag he is and, in fact, has always been.

Thanks for the reminder! It’s important to remember both who the villains are -- and what they have done to earn the title and the shame that goes with it. I refer to Dershowitz as “Captain Underwear” when his name comes up in conversation. Maybe I’ll add “Torture Warrants” to the title: “Torture Warrants Captain Underwear Dershowitz.” It would probably sound more official in German!

[NurseJackie]

5. Anyone can be nominated, right? Wasn't Rush Limbaw nominated, too?

[sarge43]

12. Yes, anyone can nominate anyone

Hell, I'll submit your name, Jackie. You're certainly more worthy than Jarjar.

[NurseJackie]

14. I'll have to get new stationery printed up...

... just a small mention that includes "Nobel Prize Nominee" after my name. Maybe an image of the Nobel medal, but it would be the correct one.

https://www.thewrap.com/trump-video-nobel-prize/

They really do have a fixation with the Nobel prize, don't they?

[Walleye]

20. Because Obama won one

[sarge43]

26. They're obsessed because President Obama scored one.

They've never emotionally matured beyond middle school and they're racist creeps.

Make sure your calling cards match your stationary.

[Lucinda]

7. Donny boy is gonna love that!

[Botany]

8. " ... negotiating deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco."

Gee what group got left out? The Palestinians maybe?

And of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco which one of these countries
were in military conflict with Israel?

[secondwind]

9. They were really more like ACCORDS. Anyone could have done this

[rpannier]

11. I don't have a problem with the concept

My problem is that it is designed to isolate Iran, which has the real possibility to enflame tensions further in the region
I'm not sure that qualifies as promoting peace

on edit: It also has the possibility of increasing tensions in western Africa since the accord recognizes Morocco as the owner of the western Sahara (which is disputed)

[jaxexpat]

30. Those are very important points and they are both perfect examples of Trump's incompetence.

Middle East peace without including the Palestinians and the West African territorial dispute settlement without including the Mauritanians and Senegalese. It's like getting the Beatles back together while ignoring that Lennon and Harrison are dead already. Or restoring the Bell monopoly while excluding cell phone technology.

But in truth it was NEVER about peace in the first place. It was only a front, a cover for normalizing the continued access to resources exploitation without respect for the wishes of the affected peoples. Colonialism rewritten for a new age. The probability of continued deadly disaster directly proportional to the profits gained by the bad-faith actors. In both cases leveraging the jealousy and distrust of existing enmity to contaminate (with a dash of greed) the responsible judgement of the signatories.

[rpannier]

35. I found this article from the ECFR

I posted it elsewhere but linking the article for ease

https://ecfr.eu/article/why-the-western-sahara-dispute-could-escalate-conflicts-across-north-africa-and-the-sahel/

[jaxexpat]

38. Intelligent article. Thanks for the link.

[Ilsa]

47. It was also a gift to Fundies, who

love that Israel potentially has more trade opportunities.

[jaxexpat]

48. And to the stereotypical "rich American Jew" that plays so well in the heartland.

Their motto, "no prejudice too large or too small".

[BlueMTexpat]

64. This!

[C_U_L8R]

10. Maybe it's time to get the Redditors and K-Poppers nominating.

When any fool can nominate Donald Cartman Trump or Jared Squeeky Kushner, well, it's time for some well deserved culture jamming and ridicule.

[Vinca]

13. Wonder how much that cost him.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Wait til they find the 20 million missing COVID vaccine doses

I wondering, air transport, black market?

[George II]

17. The last time trump was nominated, a few months ago, it was summarily tossed because it wasn't....

....properly submitted.

Let's hope that's the case here, too.

[rpannier]

36. Unfortunately it is properly submitted

Dershowitz has standing to nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize by virtue of his title at Harvard

[pazzyanne]

18. ...

[twodogsbarking]

19. He wasn't courting peace

he was conducting illegal business.

[ananda]

27. This

Corrupt to the core

[Walleye]

21. His old family friend, uncle Bibi, was only to happy to give him a phony victory

[Maeve]

23. Alan Dershowitz--explains it all

[Harker]

25. He's the artsy movie at the Academy awards that nobody really liked

but they had to nominate.

[TomVilmer]

28. I actually got a couple of them Prizes ...

... together with thousands of people, since they were given to some very fine organizations, like ICAN.

Nominations are way easier to get, since a lot of politicians has the right to nominate. But the Nobel Peace Committee does not have to listen to any of those suggestions.

[LiberalFighter]

29. Dershowitz needs to be declared ineligible to be a nominee.

[irisblue]

32. Dershowitz thought people on Marthas' Vineyard shunned him before

summer 2018 story, *in the Before Times*


Source-https://www.vox.com/2018/7/12/17562386/alan-dershowitz-marthas-vineyard-trump

snip-"Alan Dershowitz’s old friends shunned him on Martha’s Vineyard
It all started with an op-ed in the Hill published on June 27 in which Dershowitz, like any good author, tried to promote his book by linking it to a currently hot topic of discussion.

At the time there was a lot of talk about “civility” in the context of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being refused service at the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia. Dershowitz, who is currently trying to get people to buy copies of The Case Against Impeaching Trump, chimed in with an op-ed about how despite not favoring impeachment, he disagrees with many of Trump’s policies.

“But that is not good enough for some of my old friends on Martha’s Vineyard,” he wrote. “For them, it is enough that what I have said about the Constitution might help Trump. So they are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life on Martha’s Vineyard.”

more at source

[yuiyoshida]

34. wow...

わかりません。

[Mr. Sparkle]

40. I would bet the Nobel prize committee had a good laugh at that one.

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[LeftInTX]

41. Yep!

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. Did Alan keep his underwear on when he made the nomination?

[Ziggysmom]

49. Friend of Jeffrey Epstein, he also enjoyed the younger girls.

[TexasBushwhacker]

67. Yeah, he doesn't like them particularly

but he didn't turn them down either. Those poor girls having to touch his withered flesh.

[turbinetree]

43. Well it time to write a letter to the committee to have these two removed

they must be held accountable for over 545 children being ripped for their parents arms on the Mexico & American southern border, they were in the loop.........

[PatrickforO]

44. What a sick, sorry joke.

Kushner is a slumlord, a criminal, treasonous slime.

[hadEnuf]

45. I didn't know that the Nobel has a Complete Asshole award category.

[Cozmo]

62. That's the same category for which tRump got nominated

[hadEnuf]

68. Very true.

[catbyte]

46. LOL.

[cp]

50. It's only who nominated them, Alan Derp

Renders the whole thing useless.

[Paper Roses]

51. In my opinion after reading this:

The Nobel Prize is not worth much any more. Sad to see this but why in heavens would anyone nominate him? Sad to see this prestigious award accepting this for consideration.

[Hulk]

52. Sure...why not.....

Ivanka probably sent in the nomination. Any asshole can be nominated. Let’s just hope they’re smart enough not to bestow the award on his so that it matches the insult of the rabid limpballs getting the once honorable Medal of Freedom. Such a disgrace.

[Paladin]

53. If Dershowitz is stupid enough to still be pimping for trump...

...then he's too stupid to still have any connection with Harvard Law.

[Frustratedlady]

54. For family peace, it would probably be best if Jared didn't win it.

For what it’s worth, far-right Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in September.

He told the Associated Press Trump deserves the honor for working “for a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel which opens up for possible peace in the Middle East.”

The president has predicted he would win the prize “for a lot of things,” but said the process is unfair, so he won’t. In April of this year, he also ranted against the committee, demanding to know when it would revoke Nobel prizes awarded to journalists. He actually meant Pulitzer Prizes and he repeatedly misspelled Nobel as “Noble.”

Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, won the prize in 2009.

[marble falls]

55. Right up to his defending Klaus von Bulow, I had an awful lot of respect for Alan Dershowitz ...

... he and Bill Kunstler were THE movement lawyers.

[Harker]

56. And I'll be nominated for a Tony.

If I win, it'll have merit equivalent to Kushner winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

[dchill]

57. Underpants On says what?

[twodogsbarking]

58. If he wins

the election was rigged.

[BobTheSubgenius]

59. This news makes my skin crawl.

That that lizard can be recognized in such a major and positive way...ugh. Still, "nominated" doesn't mean "awarded" and perhaps someone who has something to gain by winning his favour just gave him an ego stroke.

And, while we're on the subject...

While I don't like to disparage any worthwhile peace initiatives, the countries involved are not exactly a hotbed of extremism regarding Israel. I bet we could negotiate a similar deal with Iceland, Belgium and Burkina Faso.

[BlueMTexpat]

63. FFS!

[SunSeeker]

65. Alan Dershowitz still has his head deep up Trump's ass.

[Vinca]

66. I saw the best response to this ever over on HuffPo. Someone tweeted it was like

a Michelin star being awarded to Jeffrey Dahmer.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

69. Thank you. I needed the laugh.

As if Kushner cared a whit about what happens in the middle east. His biggest concern is getting accepted into some country clubs.

[Chrisdutch]

71. Missing something

It could also be pointed out that none of these "agreements" even come close to addressing the conflict in Yemen, where the beat goes as Saudi Arabia does the same thing to Yemen that we did to Iraq with the same justification - preemptive war.

Follow the money I guess.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

72. But Dersh kept his pants on

Jared can't have compromising pictures of him can he?