Reply #13: Connected with the IP conflict? At present?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Frankly, I wouldn't. There is no Israeli-Palestinian peace *process*, never mind any actual peace or prospects thereof.

The least worst person I can think of is Daniel Barenboim (thank you for reminding me of his existence in another thread, by the way - I should have remember him on my own accord). But the Nobel Prize can explicitly only be given to living people, and giving it to Barenboim but not Said would feel a bit wrong, I think.

The only person close to power on either who is even making vaguely peaceful noises, as far as I can see, is Abbas, and "making vaguely peaceful noises, while not entirely walking the walk" is not really Nobel peace prize material.