HISTORY may record this as one of the most brazen deceptions of our time. President Donald Trump’s so called Board of Peace — unveiled with much fanfare and presented as the mechanism for rebuilding Gaza — has no money in it. Despite billions pledged by member states, not a single dollar has entered the official World Bank-administered reconstruction fund. The BoP exists but the money does not. This is not bureaucratic delay or administrative failure. It is calculated political theatre led by Mr Trump and his ideological allies. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the Board was meant less as a peace initiative than as........

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