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By Joshua Scheer
Donald Trump’s newly unveiled “Gaza Board of Peace” is being sold as a bold diplomatic breakthrough, but the reality—laid bare in this conversation—is far closer to a billionaire protection racket dressed up as global governance. Announced at Davos with no Palestinian mandate, no democratic legitimacy, and no connection to the people whose lives it claims to reshape, the Board functions as a pay‑to‑play club where Trump appoints himself permanent director and fills the executive ranks with his loyalists, financiers, and war‑time profiteers. Gaza isn’t mentioned once in its mandate. Palestinians are excluded entirely from determining their own future.
In this interview, organizer Lea Kayali of the Palestinian Youth Movement breaks down how the Board of Peace extends a century‑long pattern of colonial powers deciding Palestine’s fate from afar—this time under the banner of “development” and “stability,” while Israel continues to bomb Gaza and block reconstruction. Kayali explains how Trump’s scheme attempts to privatize global diplomacy, sideline international institutions, and turn Gaza’s devastation into a billionaire investment opportunity, all while Palestinians continue to resist dispossession on the ground and solidarity movements expand worldwide.
This conversation cuts through the PR gloss and exposes the Board for what it is: another attempt to profit from Palestinian suffering while tightening the grip of empire. It also highlights the fractures emerging within the Western bloc, the growing cracks in the so‑called rules‑based order, and the rising global movement refusing to let Gaza’s future be auctioned off.
Watch the full discussion below.
Trump’s so‑called “Gaza Board of Peace” is a pay‑to‑play billionaire consortium with no Palestinian mandate and no democratic legitimacy.
Gaza is not mentioned once in the Board’s official mandate, despite being the supposed justification for its creation.
Trump appoints himself indefinite director, with veto power over every decision — big or small.
The Board’s executive team is stacked with Trump loyalists and global financiers: Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management, and the World Bank president.
Palestinians are relegated to a technocratic “National Committee for Gaza Management” whose members must be approved by Israel, stripping them of meaningful authority.
The project continues a century‑long colonial pattern of outsiders determining Palestine’s fate — from the British Mandate to today’s “development” schemes that mask dispossession.
Trump’s Davos rollout frames the Board as a replacement for the UN, revealing an attempt to privatize global diplomacy and consolidate power in the hands of billionaires.
On the ground, Palestinians still face bombings, displacement, and destroyed infrastructure, contradicting Trump’s claim that he “created peace in the Middle East.”
Despite genocide and international attempts to impose top‑down solutions, Palestinian resistance remains active, and global solidarity movements are expanding, from hunger strikes in Britain to mass protests worldwide.
Fractures are emerging within the Western bloc as Trump’s ambitions extend beyond Gaza, exposing cracks in the imperial order and opportunities for people of conscience to widen them.
As Leah Kayali notes, Palestinians have resisted every iteration of colonial “development” schemes for over a century — and will continue to resist attempts to profit from their suffering.
For more about the board of peace read The Gratuitous Barbarity of Trump’s So-Called ‘Board of Peace’ and Netanyahu Joins Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ as Gaza Babies Freeze to Death
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