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A piece of a prize
The idea that The Donald should get the Nobel Peace Prize is at best premature.
1. The fact that Israel, which needs the US to stay afloat in its hostile environment, has of course agreed, is not peace.
2. The principal terms of the proposal are essentially the same as those proposed early in the war by the previous administration.
3. Hamas has yet to agree.
4. "A decent interval" of, e.g., five years, would be an appropriate wait to see if anything real results from these announcements.

In the longer term, IMHO it would be a good idea to limit candidacy for the Prize to deceased persons, omitting thereby all those with a proclivity to turn the medal into the backdrop forn photo ops.

Here's a thought. Gut the Qatari bribe airplane and use it to ferry food, medicine and other supplies to Gaza. The payload of that aircraft, fitted out as a freighter is about 140,000, according to official specs. Allowing for a crew of 20, with a remaining payload of 120,000 kg, approximately 200,000 MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) meals can be delivered, based on an average MRE weight of 625 grams per meal. Assuming 5 cycles per day from any of several possible staging points in Europe, such a project could provide one meal per day to 1,000,000 people. Instead of millions of Gaza residents hating us for generations, millions would remember who helped them in their time of need.

The projected cost of retrofitting a new AF1 from the Qatari bribe, presumably including a golden toilet in the master suite, ranges depending on whom one asks from $400 million to $1 billion. I will use an estimate halfway between those extremes, $700 million.

Perplexity estimates the cost of a round trip from Berlin to Cairo (surrogate from "generic European city" to the major airport nearest Gaza) at $175,000, including all the basic elements. so for the $700,000,000, approximately 4,000 trips could be financed, delivering a total of about 800 million meals, enough to feed Gaza one meal per person per day for 400 days. This number could be increased by creation of any number of high-turnaround industrial sites, similar to the maquiladoras that line the US-Mexico borders, with the intent of putting Gazans back to work with real wages ASAP. Products could include a myriad of assembly work or packaging, etc., jobs that require only brief training and can be performed in temporary shelters, followed by longer-term investments.

IMHO Israel should be "encouraged" to contribute to that development, given its—shall we say—overzealous prosecution of the current war, during which they have failed to accomplish their stated objectives across the board.
Such a modern Marshall plan would be cheaper and more effective than a lifetime of the current crop of little man-boys playing King of the Hill. It might even pull Gaza out of its cycle of isolation and poverty.

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