US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which charges a US$1 billion fee for permanent membership, is a red herring.
On the surface, it presents itself as an initiative for peace, as the name suggests, and for the reconstruction of Gaza, which was destroyed and reduced to rubble by Israeli bombings that continue despite what many describe as a farcical ceasefire. Since the ceasefire, over 500 innocent Palestinians have reportedly been killed in these unrestricted bombings abetted by the Americans.
The so-called Board of Peace, to be chaired by Trump for life with absolute powers over its membership and administration, is to position himself as an imperial leader and rival the existing United Nations. He wants to set a new order with him as an absolute ruler who is above all man-made and even divine laws.
The Board of Peace was a United Nations Security Council resolution in November 2025 for the reconstruction of Gaza and to supervise Gaza’s temporary governance. But Trump hijacked it to have purview over global conflicts and to create his own imperial fiefdom to satisfy his ego. It is also to show disdain for the world body and the sovereignty of other nations and to impress that he is judge, jury and executioner who does not submit to international rule of law, ethics, morals or human rights.
The main objective of the Board of Peace is not so much to resettle the Palestinians in their homeland with their own state but to advance Israel’s objective of ethnic cleansing and occupying Palestinian lands. It is, in fact, to colonise Palestine under US-Israel hegemonic rule.
They have already started to sell lots of Palestinian lands and establish illegal settlements in the West Bank, ignoring United Nations prohibitions on such occupation. They can do this with impunity because they dictate the United States to oppose or veto any United Nations sanctions against them and even to drag the United States into fighting their wars.
Despite Trump’s outward bravado in seeking peace for Gaza and a Palestine state under surreptitious US plans, he is, in fact, at the beck and call of Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which dictates US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. This is made possible by what critics describe as the clandestine tentacles of Israel and AIPAC in the House of Representatives and Congress, whose members have been bought over to serve Israel rather than the American people.
AIPAC has, critics argue, infested branches of government, industry, banking and finance, media and entertainment to the detriment of the American people, whose taxpayers’ money funds the conflict and regional escalation.
The Board of Peace is a farce serving Israel’s Greater Israel agenda. How else can this be read when Palestinians themselves are not included in the Board of Peace to determine their future and the two-state solution?
Instead, the United States and Israel, described by critics as aggressors and perpetrators of genocide and the destruction of Gaza, will supervise the reconstruction and temporary governance of Gaza. What could be more ironical and diabolical?
It is not only the United States that supports what critics call the Zionist agenda of ethnic cleansing and genocide but also Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan through the Zionist-American engineered Abraham Accords and other economic and military alliances. They are described as complicit in the annihilation of the Palestinian people and the occupation of their lands by Israel and its vassal state, the United States.
In return, the Arab states are given US-Israel military protection as well as support for their regimes. It is no wonder, critics say, that these states are willing to pander to Trump’s Board of Peace. Qatar earlier reportedly gifted a US$400 million aircraft to Trump.
However, several European allies such as Britain, Spain, Denmark and Italy have rejected invitations to join the so-called Board of Peace. Even Pope Leo XIV has declined Donald Trump’s invitation, citing concerns that it is the United Nations that should manage global crises and not a unilateral cohort led by Trump.
Clearly, in the view of its critics, the Board of Peace is a Zionist-American ruse and a hoax to camouflage another modus operandi of ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestine in furtherance of the Greater Israel agenda.
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