Jared Kushner, the White House adviser under former President Trump, was nominated on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in negotiating deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and other countries in the region during a busy four-year period. months last year.
Reuters reported that Kushner and Avi Berkowitz, his former deputy, were nominated by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. Reuters called the deals “the most significant diplomatic advances in the Middle East in 25 years,” and many Trump supporters said the media downplayed their magnitude to impair their chances of re-election.
The Trump administration brokered peace agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Kushner told Fox News in October that there were “people in Washington for 30, 40 years” who “were never able to work on a single foreign transaction”.
He joked that peace deals are “much more difficult than President Trump is making it look like.”
Kushner said that “people have been very critical of the president for the past three years for everything he does … but the reality is that he took a different approach to dealing with Washington, took a different approach in the Middle East and chose for results. “
Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in a festive ceremony at the White House in the fall that marked the “Abraham Agreements”, a pair of US-mediated diplomatic pacts with Israel. Although the UAE agreement with Israel formally established ties, the agreement with Bahrain was less detailed and included a mutual promise to follow suit.
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Palestinians have broken ties with Trump’s White House, accusing it of being unjustly biased towards Israel. American officials, for their part, have cultivated ties between Israel and the Arab states, hoping to increase pressure on the Palestinians to reduce previous demands in the peace negotiations.
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The Reuters report said that President Biden is in the process of reviewing Trump’s business and mentioned that it is not clear whether Trump’s departure from the White House will hurt Kushner’s chances of receiving the award.
Dershowitz told Fox News in a statement: “The Nobel Peace Prize is not for popularity. Nor is it an assessment of what the international community can think of those who helped bring peace. It is an award for meeting the frightening criteria set by Alfred. Nobel in their will. These men, and the Abraham agreements they helped produce, meet these criteria better than any other person or group eligible for the award. “
Fox News Talia Kaplan and the Associated Press contributed to this report