The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again demonstrated that its Peace Prize has become less an honor for genuine peacemaking and more a political trophy for the global left.
According to RedState, President Donald Trump has long understood the ideological tilt of the body that once commanded near-universal respect. He has been candid about the committees bias, remarking, "They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize," and adding pointedly, "they only give it to liberals." That assessment appears increasingly difficult to dispute as the prize continues to drift away from rewarding concrete achievements and toward endorsing fashionable progressive causes and figures.
This years decision only deepened that perception. On Saturday, Trump blasted the committee for passing him over yet again while elevating a figure he argues has done far less to advance peace on the world stage.
In a characteristically blunt statement, Trump catalogued what he views as his record of accomplishment. "I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon AND MUCH MORE!" he declared. "Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!"
Instead, the committee chose South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a past member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution Trump has openly despised for its politicized prosecutions. The selection triggered a wave of criticism, particularly from those who see the ICC and UN human-rights machinery as deeply compromised by anti-Western and anti-Israel agendas.
Among the most forceful critics was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who accused the committee of rewarding bigotry rather than moral courage. "The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state. Navi Pillays proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor" Netanyahu charged, arguing that the prize now validates those who demonize Israel rather than those who defend its right to exist.
Netanyahu did not stop there, delivering a blistering indictment of both Pillay and her allies within the ICC. "The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state," he reiterated, underscoring his view that the award has been weaponized against Israel. "Navi Pillays proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge."
He went on to name that prosecutor directly, tying the Nobel decision to a broader scandal. "Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillays lies to build a fake case against Israel," Netanyahu said, portraying the entire process as a travesty. "Pillay supplied the lies. Khan weaponized them. And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honoring the woman who propagated this demonization of the Jews and this travesty of justice."
For many conservatives, the Nobel Peace Prize began its decline years ago, when it was handed to Barack Obama in 2009 after barely eight months in office. At that point, Obamas rsum consisted largely of a brief Senate stint, a professorship, and work as a community organizer hardly the record of a statesman in the mold of Churchill or Reagan. Even sympathetic media could not entirely mask their skepticism, with the left-leaning Los Angeles Times asking, The Peace Prize? Really?
Against that backdrop, Trumps exclusion from the Nobel roll call looks less like an oversight and more like a deliberate snub of a leader who pursued peace through strength, brokered historic Middle East accords, and confronted rogue regimes rather than appeasing them. Unfortunately for the president, there is indeed a better-than-even chance he will never receive the prize but for many on the right, that fact only underscores that he is challenging the very globalist establishment the Nobel Committee now seems determined to protect.
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