When I wrote to the Nobel Prize Committee last year and clearly emphasized that the Committee would lose its credibility if it awarded the peace prize to Donald Trump, who is the main sponsor, alongside Biden, of the genocide in Gaza, and who is the main order-giver for the killing of Iranian children and civilians, I had no idea that I would hear this wonderful news this year. I hope that this recognition will further help to ensure that all Israeli leaders and soldiers who committed genocide in Gaza are criminally prosecuted, arrested, and convicted. Because until that happens, we have a serious crisis situation at the global level where one nation, without fear of punishment, is committing genocide against another nation. Donald Trump only deserves to be arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and for history to remember him as a war criminal and a mentally disturbed person. He is the biggest embarrassment to the USA since that country has existed. And by his very existence, Trump insults the entire human race, just like Netanyahu.
Israeli tantrum and the wall they tore down themselves
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to Navi Pillay's Nobel Prize award with any kind of counter-report, nor did it show what was allegedly incorrect in the findings of her commission. Instead, it resorted to "blood libel", "the greatest lie of the 21st century" and Joseph Goebbels who is "applauding from hell". The ugliness of that attack is not only in the vocabulary. It is in the message that anyone who tries to subject Israel to the rules that apply to others must, it turns out, be placed straight among the Nazis. That, of course, is not a defense of the state – it is a tantrum and a demand that one state be permanently exempted from the judgment of the world.
Yet, behind that anger, something even more uncomfortable for the Israeli right-wing establishment than a Nobel medal can be discerned – an old mechanism, to which they were so well accustomed, no longer works as before. Until recently, it was enough to declare a critic of Israeli policy a fringe radical, an antisemite, or a Hamas sympathizer. The debate would routinely end before it even began. Today, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a woman who led a UN commission that, after an extensive investigation, concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. The same commission also established Hamas's war crimes on October 7, which quite seriously undermines the caricature of Pillay as a "propaganda tool for terrorism." This is not a legally binding ruling by the International Court of Justice, but it is also not a post by some anonymous profile on a social network. Israeli anger now shows that the authorities cannot cope with the commission's findings, but also that they might feel these findings are correct. Attack has always been the best defense.
