Aaron David Miller

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.

I mean, the anger and the hatred that has been stirred up on the part of Palestinian civilians

for what the Israelis have done and for what, in many respects, the Americans have enabled, not trying to trivialize or discount the attendant trauma of the shadow of October 7th, which is going to linger and loom over Israel for many years to come.

But in terms of sheer scale, this should be the priority now.

And we're not talking about reconstruction, just trying to figure out how to create a life, something that two million Gazans can somehow manage.

I'm not running the railroad these days and have no desire to.

But I would not have left Sharm el-Sheikh without constituting four high-level working groups chaired by a senior American as part of an interagency American process.

Four groups, one dedicated to humanitarian assistance and reconstruction, a second to governance, a third to international stabilization, and a fourth, and Trump has already moved in this direction by…

working with CENTCOM, the American military, to deploy 200 Americans to an Israeli military base near Gaza, which will help monitor the ceasefire.

Well, you know something?