B’nai B’rith International nominated Jordan’s King Hussein for a Nobel Peace Prize. In nominating the king, who has been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, the group cited his “personal participation” in the negotiations that led to the Wye agreement last month between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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