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On Monday, 6 October, the Association of Families of Israeli Hostages sent a letter to the Nobel Committee in Norway, calling for the Peace Prize to be awarded to Donald Trump for his “efforts to free the hostages and end the Gaza war.”
Although the association’s demand may seem shocking, even unacceptable, to many, it is understandable on an emotional level. Families whose loved ones are held captive by Hamas are clinging to any faint glimmer of hope. In their eyes, Trump — despite his history of authoritarianism, fascism, and complicity with a war criminal such as Netanyahu in the massacre of Gaza’s civilians — might yet be the saviour of their abducted relatives. This position is less a political analysis than a human reaction to ongoing anguish.
Yet should the Nobel Committee agree to such a request, it would once again undermine the legitimacy of the Peace Prize itself. Experience shows that, in recent years, the committee has been guided more by political pressure and media campaigns than by actual contributions to peace. The decision to grant the prize to Barack Obama at the start of his presidency remains a telling example — one still open to criticism and debate.
Trump’s political fate, however, depends less on foreign policy or the success of hostage negotiations than on his domestic record. His brand of fascist economic policy — austerity, the dismantling of social services, mass layoffs across state institutions, his relentless war on civil society and the media, his persecution and deportation of immigrants and asylum seekers, his attacks on women’s rights and the criminalisation of abortion — all reveal an inhuman face. Trumpist fascism manifests not only through internal repression but also globally, in a blend of economic jingoism and aggressive nationalism aimed at reviving America’s declining hegemony.
Amid this, the American social left — still marginal in the corridors of power — is gaining strength. Movements embodied by figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez point to a new wave rooted in social justice, economic equality and an end to militarism, suggesting a different political future for the United States: one in which “peace” holds a meaning far deeper than political theatre.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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