Trump and Netanyahu Announce 20-Point Gaza Peace Plan

[Yazata]

Reports today that Hamas has agreed.

Photos from the talks in Egypt show the Israeli representative hugging and shaking hands with the Qatari representative, who is representing Hamas as an intermediary.

And President Trump was holding a televised White House press event with the Attorney General, the Homeland Security Secretary and the FBI Director to talk about getting tough with antifa, when an aide rushed in, handed Trump a note and whispered in his ear. Trump read the note, then told the journalists that it was from Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that Hamas had agreed to the release of all hostages and an immediate cease fire, though a couple of remaining issues remained to be concluded.

Update - the agreement is to be officially signed in Egypt at 12 noon tomorrow, local time.

There are unconfirmed rumors that President Trump is preparing to fly to the Middle East.

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[Magical Realist]

This is the best news of the century so far if true! I can't believe they're willing to do it. Even Hillary said Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize if this works! lol

[Syne]

Trump should have already received the Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords.
Makes me wonder if even this, if successful, would get him there.

[Yazata]

It's been confirmed that President Trump will travel to Israel where he will address the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem on Sunday.

[stryder]

Trump should have already received the Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords.
Makes me wonder if even this, if successful, would get him there.

That depends on what the criteria for a Peace Prize is and whether the 'brand' could survive bending a knee to a demagogue.

There are actions he could of expedited early on, but instead allowed things to play out like they have. On top of that there is questions about the methods and tactics employed in other areas(Such as not utilising due process when dealing with Venazuelan alleged drug boats, as the boat operators could of been forced, and event the drug deal itself might have been entrapped by having someone on Trumps team making the orders to buy).

You also have to consider peace is subjective in the sense that it's only truly peace when enough time has passed to see peace maintained, that hasn't happened yet. Lets say he got a prize and then it erupted back into warfare again, would you think he'd hand the prize back for not completing a lasting peace?

On top of that there is still questions as to whether any of the warfare thats happened over the past few years would of happened if Trump had never been president the first term and hadn't bothered with other attempted terms.

Quote from Ovid:
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

[Magical Realist]

Oops...well maybe next year! lol

"President Donald Trump lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. And Republicans from all corners of the party say he was robbed.

The president has long pined after the prestigious award. Now, many in the GOP, who cast Trump as a peacemaker who ended conflicts across the globe, are accusing the Nobel Committee of favoritism.


“The woke Nobel Committee gave Obama a peace prize for doing nothing,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said in a post on X. “They wouldn’t know peace if it stared them in the face.”

But the lobbying likely came too late. Nominations for this year’s award were due in late January, just days after Trump retook the Oval Office.

Instead of Trump, the committee chose to single out Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado — a fierce opponent of the ruling Nicolas Maduro government now living in hiding inside the country — with the honor. Machado said that she was dedicating the award to the people of Venezuela — and Trump, for his support of their cause."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10...e-00601969

[Syne]

To be expected. They gave the Nobel to a woman who thought she could get democratic elections in communist, dictator-controlled Venezuela... and failed.

[confused2]

Possibly the Nobel Prize committee seek to reward deeds that might otherwise have passed unnoticed.

[Magical Realist]

Peace in Gaza! These verses came up at just the right time...

“So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.”
― seamus heaney

[Syne]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado hails Trump for restoring ‘democracy and freedom in the Americas’
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Friday said her historic Nobel Peace Prize isn’t just a victory for her embattled nation — it’s also a tribute to President Donald Trump, whose policies have “restored democracy and freedom in the Americas.”

“I dedicated this award to the Venezuelan people and President Trump because I believe that’s absolutely fair,” Machado told The Post in an exclusive interview. “We, the Venezuelan people, are absolutely grateful to President Trump for the way he has supported democracy and freedom in the Americas.”
...
Speaking from an undisclosed location in Venezuela, Machado — who has been in hiding since the election was stolen — said Trump’s “courage and clarity” have been instrumental in isolating and weakening what she described as Maduro’s “narco-terrorist criminal enterprise” running her country.
...
“From the very beginning, President Trump understood this wasn’t a conventional dictatorship,” she said. “He treated it as what it is — a criminal network tied to drug cartels, terrorist groups, and foreign regimes that threaten both the Venezuelan people and the security of the United States.”

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Possibly the Nobel Prize committee seek to reward deeds that might otherwise have passed unnoticed.

Oh, like Obama winning just for being black?
Yeah, no one noticed the first black US president. 9_9