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Netanyahu Nominated for the Nobel Peace Price...

Postby Shofercia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:18 pm

...and he didn't even ethnically cleanse anyone yet!

https://thehill.com/policy/internationa ... obel-peace

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday that he and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The prime minister’s office said the leaders were nominated by David Trimble, the former First Minister of Northern Ireland who won in 1998 for his work on the Northern Ireland peace process, Bloomberg reported.

“Pursuant to the rules of the Nobel Prize Committee, since Lord Trimble is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, his decision to submit Prime Minister Netanyahu’s candidacy will lead the committee to discuss the issue,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Tuesday.


Previous winners included Abiy Ahmed, Juan Manual Santos Calderon, Barack Obama, Marti Ahtisaari, so Netanyahu should fit right in! What does NSG think?

I think that they should, at the very least, rename the Nobel Peace Prize to the Nobel War Price, for maximum trolling. I'm not against Netanyahu, as he's been quite effective at asserting Israel's dominance in the Middle East, moreso than I expected, but to claim that he did so peacefully... is bullshit.
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Postby Alcala-Cordel » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:21 pm

I mean, Hitler was nominated too so we do have some history of horrible people getting nominated.
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Postby Page » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:22 pm

Normalization of diplomatic relations is not worthy of celebration when the stakeholders with the most to lose, the Palestinian people, were excluded as if they didn't exist.

This is even worse than Obama getting one, at least they gave Obama his before he started killing people.
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Postby Nakena » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:38 pm

Yeah lol no.

Abiy Ahmed Ali was also a bad candidate. They really, really should stop throwing the Prize to such poor candidates or else nobody takes it serious anymore. It's reputation is all what it really has and they are destroying it.

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Postby North American Imperial State » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:43 pm

April fools day is a wee bit early

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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:49 pm

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman must be in with a chance.
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Postby North American Imperial State » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:52 pm

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman must be in with a chance.

I will place a bet 2/1 for him to win it
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Postby Nakena » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:53 pm

North American Imperial State wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman must be in with a chance.

I will place a bet 2/1 for him to win it


He has the deeper pockets for sure.

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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:55 pm

Nakena wrote:
North American Imperial State wrote:I will place a bet 2/1 for him to win it


He has the deeper pockets for sure.


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Postby Kexholm Karelia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:55 pm

Netanyahu and Likud have been spending decades standing against Islamists who want all Jews dead, good for him
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Kexholm Karelia wrote:Netanyahu and Likud have been spending decades standing against Islamists who want all Jews dead, good for him


And a bunch of Palestinian kids and babies too young to know what Islamist and Jew even means.
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Postby Shofercia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:19 pm

Nakena wrote:Yeah lol no.

Abiy Ahmed Ali was also a bad candidate. They really, really should stop throwing the Prize to such poor candidates or else nobody takes it serious anymore. It's reputation is all what it really has and they are destroying it.


I think its reputation is already gone. Would anyone think any less of Malala if she didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize?


Kexholm Karelia wrote:Netanyahu and Likud have been spending decades standing against Islamists who want all Jews dead, good for him


This is supposed to be the Peace Prize, not the "I destroyed my enemies" Prize. Netanyahu is doing a decent, and some would argue good job for Israel, but he isn't doing so in a peaceful manner.
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Postby Postauthoritarian America » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:21 pm

Tom Lehrer said satire died the day Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize. Someone just exhumed satire and bumfucked its corpse.
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Postby Kexholm Karelia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:21 pm

Shofercia wrote:
Nakena wrote:Yeah lol no.

Abiy Ahmed Ali was also a bad candidate. They really, really should stop throwing the Prize to such poor candidates or else nobody takes it serious anymore. It's reputation is all what it really has and they are destroying it.


I think its reputation is already gone. Would anyone think any less of Malala if she didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize?


Kexholm Karelia wrote:Netanyahu and Likud have been spending decades standing against Islamists who want all Jews dead, good for him


This is supposed to be the Peace Prize, not the "I destroyed my enemies" Prize. Netanyahu is doing a decent, and some would argue good job for Israel, but he isn't doing so in a peaceful manner.

Didn’t they give the nobel prize to the ethiopian dude who’s now about to commit genocide?
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Postby Adamede » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:51 pm

Page wrote:Normalization of diplomatic relations is not worthy of celebration when the stakeholders with the most to lose, the Palestinian people, were excluded as if they didn't exist.

This is even worse than Obama getting one, at least they gave Obama his before he started killing people.

Pretty sure the US federal government kills people everyday.

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Postby Arcturus Novus » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:58 pm

The Peace Prize is a joke. Not shocking at all that a monster like Netanyahu was nominated for it.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:59 pm

Adamede wrote:
Page wrote:Normalization of diplomatic relations is not worthy of celebration when the stakeholders with the most to lose, the Palestinian people, were excluded as if they didn't exist.

This is even worse than Obama getting one, at least they gave Obama his before he started killing people.

Pretty sure the US federal government kills people everyday.

Are you? Based on what? I would love to learn.
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Postby Adamede » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:02 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Adamede wrote:Pretty sure the US federal government kills people everyday.

Are you? Based on what? I would love to learn.

Just on the fact that the executive branch operates numerous, sub-organizations I guess, who’s sole function is to enforce the will of the American federal government by force, both in America and across the world, 24/7.

Just a hunch that it involves at least one person getting killed at least everyday or two.
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Postby Cabacia » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:03 pm

Barack Obama won the Nobel Price while he's bombing the Middle East ( I guess 'War is Peace' since then ), so the Nobel Price shouldn't mean a lot by now.

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Postby Nobel Hobos 2 » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:04 pm

I read the OP but the thread title still confuses me. The net price of peace is an Yahu?
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Postby Side 3 » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:06 pm

The "Peace" Prize nowadays is worthless. You could fish an old bowling tournament trophy from the 80's out of a dumpster, and it would still be a more prestigious and meaningful award than the Nobel Peace Prize. This is just another nail among dozens in its coffin.
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Postby Valrifell » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:09 pm

A nomination obviously doesn't mean they won the award. The Nobel Committee probably gets a lot of such obviously discarded requests every year.
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Postby Nobel Hobos 2 » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:10 pm

Ideally the Committee should discontinue the Peace Prize. It's bringing the science prizes into disrepute.

Unfortunately that's probably not possible by their charter. Perhaps they could give it only to obscure people, more or less at random. Say you tried to rescue a neighbour's cat from a tree, got scratched on the nose, fell out of the tree and broke your leg ... but still didn't call the cat bad names? You go in the draw for the No Bull Peace Prize.
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Postby Valrifell » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:12 pm

Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Ideally the Committee should discontinue the Peace Prize. It's bringing the science prizes into disrepute.


I, uh, doubt it.

The Nobel Prizes for the other categories are indisputably a great honor and I don't think that's under contention, save for the laureates who don't want the attention.
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Postby Postauthoritarian America » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:36 pm

Maybe Bibi can get an Ig Nobel. Unfortunately this year's Peace Prize went to India and Pakistan for having their diplomats ring each other's doorbells in the middle of the night and then run away. Oh and sorry, Trump already won one.
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