Today’s Trump/Netanyahu meeting was an embarrassingly gross “log-rolling*” exercise in flattery. Netanyahu says he nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize. Trump calls Netanyahu “the greatest man alive.” It made me sick.
Meanwhile the genocide of Palestinians continues
Logrolling
is the trading of favors, or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by
legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each
legislative member. In
organizational analysis, it refers to a practice in which different
organizations promote each other's agendas, each in the expectation that
the other will reciprocate. In an academic context, the Nuttall Encyclopedia describes logrolling as "mutual praise by authors of each other's work".
Quoting the poet Mosab abu Toha's responce "Believe it or not:
ReplyDeleteA man wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes is now nominating the president of another country—one that’s actively funding those very same crimes—for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Honestly, I can’t begin to imagine what future generations will say when they read about all this."