Trump Officially Invited to Address Israel’s Knesset: We ‘Await the Peace President’
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President Donald Trump has been officially invited to address Israel’s law-making body, the Knesset.
Amir Ohana, Speaker of the Knesset, sent the invitation on Thursday as Israel anticipated the release of the remaining hostages from Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
“Today is a historic day,” the letter began. “Your leadership, courage, persistence, and vision have led not only to a deal securing the release of all Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, but also to an unprecedented regional agreement accepted by nearly every nation in the Middle East.”
The letter referenced Trump’s first term, saying, “From recognizing Jerusalem as our eternal capital and moving the American Embassy there, to affirming our sovereignty over the Golan Heights, from creating the historic Abraham Accords to eliminating Iran’s nuclear sites, and now to this momentous day: you have demonstrated that under your leadership, America is not only a military superpower but a moral superpower as well — and that peace comes through strength.”
Ohana continued, “The people of Israel regard you as the greatest friend and ally of the Jewish nation in modern history,” noting, “Your speech would be the first by a sitting U.S. president since George W. Bush’s visit in 2008 — a deeply meaningful gesture of our eternal gratitude for your once-in-a-century leadership and for the unbreakably alliance between the State of Israel and the United States of America. Israel awaits the Peace President.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in July that he had nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to release the hostages. Trump has also been nominated by other foreign leaders, governments, and U.S. lawmakers.
Trump has made no secret of wanting the prize and has repeatedly mocked former President Barack Obama for receiving it in 2009.
Thursday, Trump claimed Obama “got it for doing nothing. Obama got a prize — he didn’t even know what — he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. No, he was not a good president.”
The prize is expected to be announced on Friday.
