Pakistan on the “Board of Peace”: A seat at the afterlife of genocide |
What has been christened the “Board of Peace” is not diplomacy; it is the administrative sequel to genocide. It exists to launder mass murder into procedure, to convert annihilation into governance, and to pacify the inexhaustible Palestinian resistance after Israel has finished reducing Gaza to dust. Peace, in this lexicon, is not the end of killing. It is the efficient management of its aftermath. Rubble, but regulated. Starvation, but coordinated. Ethnic cleansing, but with minutes and memos.
At the center of this architecture stands Israel, not defensive, not confused, and certainly not restrained. Israel has not drifted into genocide; it has executed it with method, confidence, and a sense of entitlement earned through decades of impunity. Gaza has been systematically destroyed — neighbourhoods erased, hospitals turned into execution sites, hunger weaponised, displacement normalised. This has not been a war. It is colonial liquidation.
Zionism in its contemporary, bureaucratic form is not about security; it is about finality. The objective is not coexistence but elimination — of the Palestinian presence as a political fact. Violence is not a breakdown of order; it is the mechanism through which order is imposed. Israeli society has largely internalised this logic. The language of extermination has been normalised, moral horror replaced with administrative calm. The only remaining problem is resistance — and resistance cannot always be bombed out of existence.
That is where the Board of Peace enters. Its purpose is not to save Palestinians but to neutralise them politically: to disarm resistance, identify compliant intermediaries, and install a governance structure that ensures Israeli domination can continue with fewer reputational costs. This is counterinsurgency in humanitarian costume. After the bombs comes management. After mass death comes........