Aaron David Miller

and the driving interest for stability and at some point, Dave, to try to

be as helpful as they can in making sure that Gaza first, which is a necessity, does not become Gaza only.

Peter Robinson, Jr.

: Meaning we have to move.

Otherwise, I don't want to trivialize this.

Too many lives have been lost.

So many horrors inflicted on October 7th and then on Israel's prosecution of the war.

Thousands of kids losing not just one parent but both.

This parade of horrors, if it's left only to Gaza, if it's one and done, and Trump having claimed he's resolved seven conflicts, having not resolved any with the possible exception of giving the Azeris and the Armenians a new pathway forward, he's now added an eighth, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If there isn't a way to build a bridge from Gaza to a broader process to deal with the core issues that have kept the Israeli-Palestinian conflict alive, then we're going to end up in a deadly and cruel and unforgiving wash, rinse, and repeat cycle on this.

I mean, I wish I had an answer for that.

I'm sure there are any numbers of plans in NGO, nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies for how to do this.

I mean, I'd ask myself the question, is it beyond the capacity of the international community?

to mobilize on an area roughly twice the size of the District of Columbia.

Winter is coming.

The lack of access to potable water, to proper sanitation, to medical care, to a regular food supply, to shelter, to dealing with the psychological trauma of individuals whose entire families have been destroyed.

Large numbers of

Horrible surgeries and amputations.

I don't know how to approach this only to answer the question that if, in fact, this is going to work, then the first phase of this beyond the president's 20 point plan has to be.

a concerted, organized, determined, focused effort to deal, Dave, with the question you just asked, to create some sort of transitional reality.