Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honour the American leader has long coveted after one of his predecessor’s, Barack Obama, received it in 2009.
Netanyahu handed a copy of the letter to Trump which he had sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee with his name in the nomination form. Netanyahu described Trump’s “leadership of a just cause” as he allowed US planes to enter the Iranian airspace and target its nuclear facilities last month, which also brought a 12-day Israel-Iran conflict to an end.
Netanyahu termed Trump in the “pursuit of peace and security” in “many lands” as the Israeli prime minister praised the US president’s “extraordinary team”.
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“I want to express the appreciation and admiration, not only of all Israelis, but of the Jewish people and many, many admirers around the world for your leadership,” Netanyahu said, reported The Independent.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today at Blair House in Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They first held an expanded meeting and then met privately. pic.twitter.com/BhMUfkgDji
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Netanyahu is in the United States for his third visit after Trump returned to the White House in January and his first meeting with the US president after the Iran conflict ended. Before leaving for Washington, the Israeli leader had said that his discussions with the Trump administration could help advance negotiations under way in Qatar between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Netanyahu, during a brief press interaction ahead of a ‘private dinner’ with Trump said, “I think our teams together make an extraordinary combination to meet challenges and seize opportunities. But the President has already realized great opportunities. He forged the Abraham accords. He’s forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the meeting between Netanyahu and Trump and said that there were “many important matters” that were “obviously ongoing” in the Middle East region for the leaders to discuss.
