Kushner, Berkowitz, Friedman nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel deals
Kushner said in a statement he was honored to be nominated for the prize, which will be awarded in October.
By Reuters & Jerusalem Post staff, February 1, 2021
White House adviser Jared Kushner, flanked by aide
Avi Berkowitz (L) and Brian Hook, former U.S. envoy to Iran, during a
press briefing on the agreement between Israel and the United Arab
Emirates at White House in Washington (photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE)
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his
deputy, Avi Berkowitz, as well as former US Ambassador to Israel David
Friedman and former Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer were
nominated on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in
negotiating four normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations
known as the "Abraham Accords."
Nominating
the pair of former deputies to then-President Donald Trump was American
attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a
professor emeritus of Harvard Law School.
In his nomination letter, Dershowitz wrote that he strongly believes that the singular event that warrants the Nobel Peace Prize for this past year is the Abraham Accords.
"These Accords, which have brought about normalization between Israel and several Sunni Arab nations, fulfill all the criteria for the prize. They hold the promise of an even broader peace in the Middle East between Israel, the Palestinians and other Arab nations. They are a giant step forward in bringing peace and stability to the region, and even to the world," he continued.
Dershowitz added that he wanted to "emphasize the enormous contributions to peace made by Jared Kushner, Avrahm Berkowitz, David Friedman and Ron Dermer," insisting that "these men played especially important roles."
"Kushner and Berkowitz traveled all over the region, meeting with leaders and their associates, advocating for peace and nailing down all the details."
Kushner,
who is Trump's son-in-law, and Berkowitz, who was the Middle East
envoy, were key figures in negotiating deals between Israel and the
United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
The
deals were announced in a four-month span between mid-August and
mid-December and were the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in
the Middle East in 25 years as the region girds for a prolonged
confrontation with Iran.
Kushner said in a statement he was honored to be nominated for the prize, which will be awarded in October.
President
Joe Biden's administration is expected to review all national security
deals reached during the Trump administration, including arms packages
for the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
There
have been some complaints from lawmakers about the Morocco deal because
to get Morocco to agree to it, the United States recognized Morocco's
sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region.
Trump
left office Jan. 20 under a cloud of controversy, potentially impacting
whether the pair of aides would be awarded the Nobel.
Sputnik One says: To the very last moment in office Kushner, Berkowitz & Friedman carried out President Trumps foreign policy and worked diligently to advance the Abraham peace accords, genuine peace accords between sovereign Arab states & Israel, unlike Clinton's Oslo accords with the PLO terror group which have only lead to pain, misery, terror & war. I doubt if genuine peace talks are taken into account by the hard left Nobel peace prize committee or Yasser Arafat, Hussein Obama, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Al Gore, Kofi Annan & Lê Đức Thọ would never have received them!
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