President Trump today announced a major, historic move toward peace in the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 largely for having mediated the landmark Camp David Accords in 1978. (He didn’t get it at the time because they missed the nominating deadline.)
Those accords were an agreement between Egypt and Israel. Today’s equally significant announcement was between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and paved the way for other Arab nations to normalize their relations with Israel as well. (Some already making the moves.)
That is a pretty big deal. In fact, the kind of thing that, if not to draw a Peace Prize, should at least draw applause from the peace CROWD right?
Not so much. On social media and elsewhere there was either indifference or hostility to the deal, along with micro-criticisms. Naturally the pro-terror caucus of the House wasn’t thrilled.
It was such blatant two-faced hackery that globally recognized peace activist and literally the son of the guy who wrote Give Peace a Chance, Sean Ono Lennon, called it out.
Hooray for the Peace deal between Israel and UAE! Wait…what? Trump negotiated it? I meant Boooo! I hate peace, peace is bad! Us dems have always been against peace deals right? Yeah that’s the ticket.
— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) August 13, 2020
I really can’t improve on what he said. It’s a perfect tweet. And perfectly right. And it’s all so perfectly terrible.
What a world.