Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza: Recycling Failure, Reaping Profits
📰 THE STORY: Mainstream reports are circulating that more countries have received invitations to join Donald Trump's proposed 'Board of Peace' for Gaza, an initiative framed as a mechanism to oversee a ceasefire and reconstruction efforts in the besieged strip. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This 'Board of Peace' is a direct echo of previous US-led efforts to manage the
Palestinian issue without addressing its root causes. The Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, promised a peace process that ultimately led to the expansion of Israeli settlements, the entrenchment of Palestinian dependency, and intensified Israeli control, rather than genuine statehood. Similarly, the 2003 'Roadmap for Peace' died on arrival, proving to be little more than a fig leaf for continued
occupation. Gaza itself has been under a brutal Israeli-Egyptian blockade since 2007, making any 'reconstruction' efforts performative unless the siege is lifted—a condition no US-led 'peace board' has ever enforced. Double Standard: Imagine G7 nations proposing a 'Board of Peace' to oversee 'reconstruction' in, say, Ukraine, while simultaneously providing billions in arms to the aggressor and
blockading its economic lifelines. The international community consistently allows Israel to operate with impunity, destroying infrastructure and lives, then offers 'aid' for reconstruction that reinforces dependence, never sovereignty. When Western powers decry the collapse of governance in states they've destabilized, it’s rarely framed as a problem of their own making; with Palestine, the blame