One way to respond to a perceived snub from the Nobel Peace Prize committee is to fly to Jerusalem on the day when the 20 living hostages returned to their families, to then declare “the dawn of a new Middle East” in a speech broadcast globally, to receive a prolonged standing ovation in the Knesset and cheers from crowds gathered in Tel-Aviv and to then fly on to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt where 20 leaders from the world’s richest nations waited patiently for a summit on the future of Gaza.
That was Donald Trump’s Monday.
Three previous sitting presidents have addressed The Knesset, the Israeli parliament: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Trump’s speech was the lengthiest and took place against the historic canvas of extraordinarily emotive scenes: the near-anguished joy of the Israeli families whose loved ones were returned to them and the more sombre reunions in Gaza, where many hundreds of Palestinians were released from Israeli custody to return to the bombed
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