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In January 1939, the Swedish parliamentarian Erik Brandt sent a darkly satirical letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating German Chancellor Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Brandt’s letter was written following the annexation of Austria in March 1938 and the carve-up of Czechoslovakia six months later, and with the knowledge that Hitler was relentlessly preparing for war.
Hitler’s “glowing love for peace” was “documented in his famous book Mein Kampf – next to the Bible perhaps the best and most popular piece of literature in the world,” Brandt wrote in words dripping with sarcasm. “Probably Hitler will, if unmolested and left in peace by war mongers, pacify Europe and possibly the whole world,” he concluded.
Though obvious satire, the point of the letter was completely missed by world public opinion, which took it at face value as an elegy to the homicidal maniac, prompting outrage in newspaper offices in Sweden and around the world.
Two things are different as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominates US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. First, Netanyahu is completely serious. Second, there is no outrage in the newspaper offices.
Netanyahu announced at a dinner at the White House that he had sent his letter to the Nobel Committee. Explaining the nomination, Netanyahu praised the “historic victory” of the US-Israeli bombing of Iran, in which the two countries used the pretext of diplomacy to assassinate dozens of civilian leaders, military officers, and scientific figures, and kill at least six hundred civilians. Trump is “forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other,” Netanyahu said.
Trump, beaming with pride, extolled his contributions to world peace by having used “the biggest bombs ever, the biggest bombs that we’ve ever dropped on anybody,” in the attack on Iran. Trump then praised the use of nuclear weapons by US President Harry Truman against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying “that stopped a lot of fighting,” seeming to express remorse that the bombs he dropped on Iran did not carry nuclear payloads.
Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu is being hailed in the US and international media as an effort to cultivate “peace” through the agreement of a “ceasefire” in Gaza, which Trump was “pushing” for. Never mind the fact that both men have openly stated that their vision of “peace” includes the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and killing of anyone who resists. Trump’s “relocation” plan went unmentioned in the media previews of the trip. And, of course, the words “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are forbidden in media coverage of US-Israeli policies in Gaza.
Netanyahu currently faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes perpetrated during the genocide, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war. But France, Germany, and Italy have stated they will ignore the ICC’s arrest warrant, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz going so far as to invite Netanyahu to the country in defiance of the order.
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Brandt’s letter was written following the annexation of Austria in March 1938 and the carve-up of Czechoslovakia six months later, and with the knowledge that Hitler was relentlessly preparing for war.
Hitler’s “glowing love for peace” was “documented in his famous book Mein Kampf – next to the Bible perhaps the best and most popular piece of literature in the world,” Brandt wrote in words dripping with sarcasm. “Probably Hitler will, if unmolested and left in peace by war mongers, pacify Europe and possibly the whole world,” he concluded.
Though obvious satire, the point of the letter was completely missed by world public opinion, which took it at face value as an elegy to the homicidal maniac, prompting outrage in newspaper offices in Sweden and around the world.
Two things are different as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominates US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. First, Netanyahu is completely serious. Second, there is no outrage in the newspaper offices.
Netanyahu announced at a dinner at the White House that he had sent his letter to the Nobel Committee. Explaining the nomination, Netanyahu praised the “historic victory” of the US-Israeli bombing of Iran, in which the two countries used the pretext of diplomacy to assassinate dozens of civilian leaders, military officers, and scientific figures, and kill at least six hundred civilians. Trump is “forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other,” Netanyahu said.
Trump, beaming with pride, extolled his contributions to world peace by having used “the biggest bombs ever, the biggest bombs that we’ve ever dropped on anybody,” in the attack on Iran. Trump then praised the use of nuclear weapons by US President Harry Truman against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying “that stopped a lot of fighting,” seeming to express remorse that the bombs he dropped on Iran did not carry nuclear payloads.
Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu is being hailed in the US and international media as an effort to cultivate “peace” through the agreement of a “ceasefire” in Gaza, which Trump was “pushing” for. Never mind the fact that both men have openly stated that their vision of “peace” includes the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and killing of anyone who resists. Trump’s “relocation” plan went unmentioned in the media previews of the trip. And, of course, the words “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are forbidden in media coverage of US-Israeli policies in Gaza.
Netanyahu currently faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes perpetrated during the genocide, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war. But France, Germany, and Italy have stated they will ignore the ICC’s arrest warrant, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz going so far as to invite Netanyahu to the country in defiance of the order.
World peace through mass murder: Netanyahu nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has nominated US President Donald Trump, the author of a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
www.wsws.org
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