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Sep 12, 2020 6 mins, 10 secs

The Atlantic magazine has been slammed after sharing an op-ed that the Nobel Peace Prize should be ‘ended’ after President Donald Trump was nominated in the wake of diplomatic breakthroughs between Israel and Gulf Arab countries.

‘Giving the peace prize to no one at all is a tradition the Nobel Committee should revive, perhaps on a permanent basis,’ Wood wrote in an opinion column for The Atlantic magazine’s news site.

One Twitter user wrote: ‘Graeme Wood and Jeffrey Goldberg (D-The Atlantic) are so bitter about Trump receiving a Nobel Prize nomination for his success in Arab-Israeli peace that they want to abolish the Nobel Prize entirely.

Another Twitter user tweeted: 'The Atlantic wasn't saying this when Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.'.

President Trump's (left) nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is reason to put an end to the tradition, argues The Atlantic writer Graeme Wood (right).

Wood mentioned several other controversial figures who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

In writing the article, Wood interviewed Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament who first nominated Trump for brokering a deal in which the UAE and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic ties and trade links and allow free travel between their countries for the first time.

Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti signed an economic normalization deal at the White House last week that also calls for Belgrade to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and for mutual recognition by Israel and Kosovo.

The announcement came on the same day Trump announced that Bahrain had joined the United Arab Emirates and Israel in a peace deal that garnered the president his first Nobel Prize nomination.

Wood wrote that giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger was controversial because he started ‘many conflicts’ while former President Barack Obama ‘won for his promotion of, notably not his success in achieving, “cooperation between peoples”.’.

‘The Nobel Committee can either give the prize to do-gooder organizations such as the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders ...

Trump has been nominated for a second Nobel Peace Prize - this time for his work in securing a deal between Kosovo and Serbia.

Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti signed an economic normalization deal at the White House last week .

Richard Grenell, Trump's envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia talks, retweeted Jacobsson saying that Trump was 'nominated for a second Nobel Peace Prize for historic Kosovo-Serbia agreement.' .

Last week, Trump went on a Twitter spree of self-congratulation after he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize the first time after the Israel-UAE accord was announced.

Insisting he is not a Trump supporter, he said: 'For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,' Tybring-Gjedde said to Fox News. .

'The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump.

The decision on who wins is made by the five-member Nobel Prize Committee, which is chosen in line with the make-up of the Norwegian parliament; Tybring-Gjedde's party is not represented on it.

President Donald Trump announced a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates from the Oval Office, August 13, 2020.

Trump has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in brokering the deal.

Donald Trump will host a signing ceremony for the Israel-UAE peace deal at the White House on September 15, officials said on Tuesday.

Nominations for a Nobel Peace Prize are relatively easy to acquire; an actual prize is more elusive.

Anyone elected to a national parliament, congress or assembly anywhere in the world, any cabinet minister anywhere in the world, professors of history, theology and religion, former prize winners and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee are just some of the people who can all nominate whoever they like.

His second attempt at nominating Trump seems as doomed as the first: in 2020, there were formal 318 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize according to the organization's official website, and nominations can be submitted by anyone who meets the Nobel Committee's criteria, which includes lawmakers anywhere in the world.  .

The peace deal was first announced by the President on August 13, with Trump saying that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the Israeli annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state. .

The deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to Trump as he seeks reelection, and reflected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken traditional Arab support for the Palestinians. ?

The historic deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to Trump as he seeks reelection .

Pictured: US President Barack Obama speaks on a screen at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at Oslo Spektrum on December 11, 2009 in Oslo, Norway

The last president to avoid doing so was Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter,' he wrote. The Norwegian MP said that the President had met the three conditions needed to win the peace prize

presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize, which is determined by the five-person Nobel Committee, which is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament: Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, President Woodrow Wilson in 1920 and President Jimmy Carter in 2002 and Barack Obama in 2009. 

In 2006, Tybring-Gjedde also nominated Islam-critical filmmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hirsi Ali did not win the prize

Along with another member of his party, Tybring-Gjedde nominated Trump for the prize in 2018 after the president's Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un. Japan's prime minister Shinzō Abe reportedly did the same, but Trump failed to win.   

'The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded president Obama for his 'extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people'.  

He was awarded the prize just 263 days after taking office, with Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and a 1983 Nobel laureate saying: 'Too fast

But sometimes the Nobel Committee awards the prize to encourage responsible action.'

Donald Trump will host a signing ceremony for the Israel-UAE peace deal at the White House on September 15, officials said on Tuesday

Late Tuesday, Netanyahu tweeted he 'was proud to leave for Washington next week at the invitation of President Trump and to participate in the historic ceremony at the White House' to sign the deal with the UAE. 

Trump, surrounded by leaders of the State of Israel and the UAE, announces a peace agreement to establish full diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, in the Oval Office on August 13

The deal was first announced by the President on August 13, with Trump saying that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the Israeli annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state. 

The historic deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to Trump as he seeks reelection, and reflected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken traditional Arab support for the Palestinians. 

The UAE also announced the end of its boycott of Israel, which allows trade and commerce between the oil-rich Emirates and Israel, home to a thriving diamond trade, pharmaceutical companies and tech start-ups. 

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