October 24, 2025

There is no need to explain the title even to a casual reader to make him know the person who is being referred to. Trumpeting is what the presently biggest land animal does, very often either for pleasure or for declaring challenges, more often as a part of unintended practice. Vainglorious people are those who bestow on themselves demanded supposed glory and try to pretend to be so through higher level declarations and movements resembling unplanned dances. Self confusing people discuss or do things by which they are confused and even confuse those who are around, particularly their flatterers. A braggart is a person who thunders and shouts around with threats that they presume will bring the others under their foot.

The present world leader is in a wrong belief that he deserves the title. However, Alfred Nobel and his successors never thought so. Whenever his desire for getting the prize was read about, or heard on broadcast, his desire for getting the prize, one is reminded of a little girl who, on a shop floor, jumping with one leg after the other demanding a lollipop from her dad.

In the recent Sharm EI Sheikh Peace Summit for Gaza in Egypt on 13 October 2025, it was a pitiable spectacle, among many, to watch Shehabaz Sharif, the President of Pakistan, nominating the great leader, a second time, for next year’s Nobel Prize for Peace. This move, which may not represent the will of the people, resulted in him making himself a laughing stock in full view of the world press. The President of Pakistan used words like ‘outstanding’, ‘extraordinary’, ‘exemplary’, ‘visionary’ and referred to the way the big man stopped the war between India and Pakistan. He tried to promote Pakistan’s self-respect and cause by using the word ‘war’, because Operation Sindoor was not a war as it was only an Indian attack, there was no attack by Pakistan on India. War by definition has to be between two groups or nations. In this, it was only an operation by India to destroy some of the citadels of Pakistani terrorists.

There were also spectacles of separate ill cultured, so called public declaration, that the great man made about the only female leader among the major twenty world leaders who were present which included the British Keir Starmer, French Macron, Turkish Erdogan, Spanish Pedro Sanchez and the Italian Giorgia Meloni. The seventy-nine year old, three times married, great man referred to the last, as a beautiful lady, with an apology that if he spoke in his country using that word for a woman, he would lose, but still, he added, that he would take a chance. It is a part of his expression of not only vain gloriousness but also self confusion to belittle the only lady in the company of big leaders of the world, almost meaning that the best about that lady was that she is beautiful, an imputation which social media laboriously wrote about.

The big leader was called a great man of peace by the same Pakistani president. Even a school student would question the whereabouts of this great man when thousands of Palestinians were being killed, and millions worth of properties were being destroyed, and hospitals and educational centres were being destroyed by the Israelis. Why did he wait to intervene for almost a year after he became the president of the U.S.A., the most powerful supporter of the brutal killers of Palestinians? Only when the date of the Nobel Prize declaration was near, he declared by himself the ceasefire between the two nations. Obviously, his intent was clear.

Beyond the Nobel Prize, there is also another thing that needs to be noted. Many of the European countries recognised Palestine recently, the latest being the United Kingdom. This development has sent a powerful message to this great leader that the world does not want to consider Palestine as a helpless nation and that it would be supported by a large number of countries in the world and Israel and its supporter would be isolated. There was a growing outcry for the stopping of the war against Palestine, notably acts like killing of the hapless women and children, destroying medical facility centres, bringing down educational centres and more than anything else, refusal of humanitarian aid for the common people of Gaza.

All said and done, the remaining facts that sixty-seven thousand Palestinians were killed in the war in two years, and only twenty out of the two hundred and fifty-one hostages taken were returned by Hamas reveal the determination of the Palestinian people in the worst distress that was put on them. The suffering of many of the dead and living hostages, may be far greater than the death of the Palestinians, in a comparative measurement of the intensity of suffering because the Palestinians were killed through an unexpected attack whereas the hostages were kept near death conditions with constant anticipation of death for almost two years with one or the other among them dying each day.

After the United Kingdom gave up its mandate in 1948, David Ben Gurion, head of Jewish agency, declared the establishment of Israel before the United Nations could declare the implementation of the two state policy of the existence of Palestine and Israel. The unilateral declaration was recognised by Harry S. Trueman, the President of the US, within a few hours and the United States became the first country to recognize Israel even before the United Nations could consider it. One has to remember this in the light of the history of the Canaan land which included parts of modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom was given the mandate and as was their wont, they left the land without creating or demarcating the borders of Israel and Palestine. It was not unusual to that major European country as it did in Kashmir creating the problem between India and Pakistan.

Much more than anything else, one sincerely doubts the permanence of the ceasefire because Israel is bound to find reasons for attacking Palestine in the near future as they will make enough arms with the support of their patron nation. Additionally, unless the war continues, a large number of people of Israel will get unemployed. Attacking Palestine or any other Arabian country is an essential need of Israel for its economic and social needs.

This ‘great man of peace’ is self confusing enough to forget that it was his country who continuously supported Israel and made it win every war, not to mention the atrocities committed on the people of Palestine. He had the audacity to state publicly within two months after becoming the great leader, 04 February 2025 of his country, that Gaza should be taken by his country and made into a park which should be owned by his country. Only a nincompoop can make a suggestion like that to the world without ever thinking about the consequences of such a suggestion of taking over a country, which was recognised as a nation by the United Nations on 11 May 1949 and 157 of the 193 member countries of the United Nations.He does not remember UN resolution 181 which states about the establishment of an Arab and a Jewish state by dividing the British mandate.

While condemning the attacks of Israel on not only Palestine but also other nearby Arab countries, one has to remember that Hamas was responsible for starting the war in which they killed more than a thousand Israelites and made around three hundred hostages of the Jews. However, the people of Palestine should not be punished this way for an offence a radical organisation did, especially because they do not truly represent the common people of Palestine.

Far more interestingly, India sent only a minister of state to represent it to this gala event of the ceasefire signed by the two warring nations, no doubt, it was only one nation attacking the defenseless other as the latter does not have defense mechanisms like other countries. When the British mandate was divided, there were no proper borderlines and the United Nations itself was not able to influence Israel to withdraw from the West Bank after a war in which they annexed it, which was a part of Palestine as per the UN resolution 181. Israel not only annexed the West Bank but even created plenty of settlements of Jews in the area which as per subsequent UN resolution was to be returned to Palestine. Now, one does not know how much of Gaza will be kept by Israel while the truce is implemented. There is also a need to remember that many of the twenty items in the ceasefire suggestions do not refer to Palestine as a state refusing the acceptance of the two state policy.

But for the support of the United States, it is impossible for Israel to continue the genocide, they committed in Palestine. The big country supported them by attacking other countries which were on the side of Palestine; the best example is the attack on Iran. Similarly, it supplied all the arms and ammunition for Israel to destroy Palestine and now comes as a savior by organising a ceasefire. Why could not the United States do this before the massacre of sixty-seven thousand Palestinians, including women and children, and the death of more than two hundred Israelites in miserable captivity?

That the world has to continue sighs of distress, not of relief of any ceasefire, for three years more from the trumpeting of this vainglorious self confusing braggart of a leader is the tragedy of the world.