Lies, flattery, and a thirst for power—a shameful duo that insults the entire world.

A Cheap Show in Washington 

But the problem isn’t just that this was an obvious, cheap spectacle. The problem is that Netanyahu—a seasoned politician who knows exactly how to manipulate Trump’s vanity—understands that to extract more concessions from Washington, all he has to do is stroke the president’s fragile ego. Trump still hasn’t gotten over the fact that his predecessor, Barack Obama, received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The most outrageous part of this story is the blatant disregard for the Nobel Committee’s rules. According to its statutes, all nominations must remain strictly confidential for 50 years. Those eligible to nominate candidates (including heads of state and parliamentarians) are obligated to remain silent. But Netanyahu, as if mocking international institutions, deliberately violated this rule, turning the “nomination” into a public spectacle. This was either an outright fabrication (since the nomination cannot be verified) or a deliberate move to invalidate it—all to please his master, U.S. President Trump.

For the Israeli prime minister—wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes—such violations are routine. For decades, he has ignored international law, whether it’s illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, or unprovoked aggression against Iran. Now he has sunk even lower—publicly ridiculing the Nobel Committee, knowing Trump would relish the gesture.

What could be more disgusting than two hardened demagogues........

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