Decades.
That’s how long the world has watched and waited for the furies of the Middle East to subside and allow the human beings who live there to prosper and live in peace.
Now, (it can be said cautiously) this appears to be happening — and happening, no less, courtesy of the New York businessman turned president of the United States named Donald J. Trump. (RELATED: Blessed Is the Peacemaker)
For which, in this corner, is the belief that President Trump has more than earned the Nobel Peace Prize.
Start with this simple question: What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
Per the site of the Nobel Prize itself, this is the answer:
When Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896, it was discovered that he had left a will, dated November 27, 1895, according to which most of his vast wealth was to be used for five prizes, including one for peace. The prize for peace was to be awarded to the person who “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses.” The prize was to be awarded “by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting.
It would seem that without doubt, President Trump fits the description of deserving the Peace Prize to a tee. Again, the Nobel site reads that the recipient “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses.”
Again, this is a description of Trump’s work exactly.
Ending what seems like the endless warring between Israel and some — but not all — of its Arab neighbors would be, particularly in the 21st-century nuclear age, a serious reason to award the president the Nobel Peace Prize. Taking note of what, one hopes, will be a lasting peace.
As if to underline the importance of what Trump has accomplished is this headline from Newsmax: “Netanyahu, Herzog: Give Trump Nobel, ‘He Deserves It’.”
The Newsmax story reports:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog wholeheartedly called for President Donald Trump to receive Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize after securing a historic ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize – he deserves it! ???? pic.twitter.com/Hbuc7kmPt1
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 9, 2025
Exactly.
If anyone would be familiar in some detail with the president’s behind-the-scenes and decidedly strenuous work to bring peace — a lasting peace — between the warring parties involved, it would be Israel’s prime minister and president.
And as this story keeps moving, there are multiple media headlines like this one from The Hill: “Trump may travel to Middle East, says peace deal is ‘very close.’”
Or this one from Newsmax: “Trump: Will Be Leaving for Middle East ‘Fairly Soon.’”
Or this one from Fox News: “Trump teases trip to the Middle East as Gaza peace deal talks continue.”
Sometimes, it seems safe to say, it takes an Outsider to accomplish major feats on the world scene that all the so-called foreign policy “experts” think cannot be achieved.
This was so with President Jimmy Carter bringing peace between Israel and its historic foe, Egypt, and their leaders, Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. And it was so with President Ronald Reagan’s belief, as he expressed to an aide back in the day, that his idea of the Cold War with the then-mighty Soviet Union was “We win, they lose.”
While Carter and Reagan were decidedly different men, what they had in common for sure was that both were Outsiders to the Washington national security complex, with Carter having spent a career as first an officer on Navy submarines and then, of all things, a Georgia peanut farmer before being elected a Georgia State Senator and Governor.
Reagan, famously, had spent his entire career first as a radio announcer and then as a movie and television star before his election as California governor and eventually president.
So now here we are. With the world watching, an incredible moment unfolds as President Trump brings peace to the blood-soaked turmoil in Gaza.
This is, beyond doubt, a major, major accomplishment.
For which, beyond doubt, President Trump deserves — in spades — the Nobel Peace Prize.
Without question, historic days are ahead.
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