Trump’s “Peace Council”: When Spain says no, and those claiming to stand with Palestine say yes

The problem is not that the international system has failed. That has been evident for a long time. The real problem is that this failure is no longer managed with embarrassment or disguised by diplomatic lingo. It is now being replaced with open political arrogance, presented to the world as “real politic”, while victims are told to adapt, accept, and move on as though injustice were an unavoidable destiny.

When Donald Trump announced what he called the “Peace Council”, he was not proposing international reform. He was not seeking to fix the structural paralysis of the United Nations, nor offering a fairer or more balanced alternative. He was doing something else entirely. He was removing the mask.

Trump said openly what empires had long practiced quietly: power is the reference point, money is the language, and whoever possesses military force writes the rules.

For that reason, this council should not be understood as a temporary deviation from the global order, but as a moment of revelation; a rare instance in which what had long been discussed behind closed doors was declared publicly, without remorse, regret or apology.

Most alarming of all is that this initiative was launched under the political sponsorship of Benjamin Netanyahu; a convicted war criminal formally wanted by the International Criminal Court and held directly responsible for acts of genocide committed against the Palestinian population in Gaza. At that point, the debate ceases to be political. It becomes purely moral.

For what kind of peace can be constructed by the hands of those who carried out a genocide?

READ: Spain declines joining Trump’s Board of Peace

A broken international order yet........

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