France and Brazil had different reactions to US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, although ostensibly pointing towards the same outcome. France rejected the invitation, stating that it would undermine the UN framework. Brazil asked the US to limit the Board of Peace to Gaza and to include Palestine. Recently both French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Lula da Silva called for strengthening the UN. France, however, was one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council that voted for Resolution 2803.

France, however, would do better to explain why it voted for a resolution it knew would undermine the UN. Brazil would do well to remember that the so-called Board of Peace is founded upon the impunity of an ongoing genocide. Both France and Brazil are playing a role in Israel’s genocidal impunity. The obfuscation that politics has become makes it hard to........

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