Donkeys Deserve Nobel!
CrossFireArabia- July 28, 2025
It started like this. In appreciation for the donkeys of Gaza and the extremely important role they are playing, Jordanian Journalist Ahmad Theiban Al Rabieh wrote in a satirical fashion:
“The donkeys of Gaza deserve the Nobel Prize! This is because of their present and vital role of transporting the injured, martyrs killed, and displaced people with the rest of their belongings…The so-called international community (a lie!) has proved incapable of providing these services.”
Donkeys have been forced into this role soon after 7 October, 2023 when the genocide on Gaza took a full-turn and Israel begun to massively destroy all means of public and private transport in the Gaza Strip.
And so the story of the Nobel prize went on from there.
Today, US president Donald Trump is trying to be nominated to get the Nobel Peace Prize because he regards himself as a man of peace. He is trying to get as many signatures as possible to be nominated for the top Norwegian accolade.
On his last visit to Washington on 7 July, 2025, and as a measure of more “sucking up” to the US president at a White House dinner, Netanyahu graciously told Trump that he will indeed be nominating him to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. And he has the “nominating letter” already he says, as he waves it in front of the cameras.
There is one problem however, the International Criminal Court has long issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. These arrest warrants were initialed and signed in November, 2024 and there are still valid.
So his Trump nomination might be seen as an insult from a man with genocidal traits on his head. However, Trump, and on camera, is seen as smiling, and maybe even appreciative despite coming for a war criminal as per the ICC.
The issue of the Nobel Prize came up a few days later when Trump was hosting a three-day meeting with five African leaders (Gabon, Guinea – Bissau, Senegal, Mauritania and Liberia) to discuss business cooperation between the USA and Africa. The leaders were put on the spot by a young ambitious African reporter from Angola who asked the leaders whether they would nominate the US president for the Nobel peace prize.
Many saw this as an “ambush question” as the leaders were put on the spot and involved diplomatic courtesies that may go a long way to nominating Trump. But on another level, many criticized Trump for being abrasive and condescending with the African leaders while bullying them around and appreciating the “good English” of Joseph Boaka, president of Liberia. Such a comment was made with the full-knowledge of the Nobel nomination.
