(JTA) — An Italian lawmaker has nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for the Nobel Peace Prize. Paolo Grimoldi of the right-wing Northern League party tweeted Wednesday that he had nominated Netanyahu because he signed peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as the… Read more »
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Shimon Peres, last of Israel’s founders, dies
Shimon Peres in New York City, Oct. 24, 2014 (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Shimon Peres, the former defense hawk turned Nobel Peace Prize winner and the last of Israel’s founders, has died. Peres died before dawn Wednesday at 93, Israel Radio reported. The former president suffered a massive stroke earlier this month and was reported initially… Read more »
European Union wins ‘Nobel Appeasement Prize’
Ben Cohen The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t so much a peace prize as it is an appeasement prize. I know, I know: many people realized this bald truth before I did. I’ll confess that I was avoiding that conclusion because, despite all the laughable recipients of the prize — former PLO… Read more »
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