The language of peace has rarely sounded as hollow as it does in the draft charter of Donald Trump’s proposed “Gaza Board of Peace.” Circulated quietly to nearly sixty countries and accompanied by a demand of up to one billion dollars for extended membership, the proposal strips peace of its moral meaning and recasts it as a financial transaction. What is being offered to the world is not an end to suffering, nor justice after devastation, but a long-term managerial project over a broken land and a broken people.

Gaza today is not emerging from conflict; it is still being crushed by its consequences. Entire neighbourhoods have been erased, civilians displaced en masse, famine conditions allowed to fester, and allegations of international crimes hang unresolved over the ruins. Any serious discussion of Gaza’s future would begin with ceasefire, accountability, and the restoration of Palestinian political agency. Trump’s board begins elsewhere. It begins with money, authority, and control.

The structure of the proposal is revealing. Membership is tiered by financial contribution. Terms are renewable not by collective review or international mandate, but at the discretion of a chairman. Palestinians are not named as partners, decision-makers, or even formal participants. Gaza is spoken of as a space to be stabilised, administered, and rebuilt, but never as a society entitled to determine its own future. This is governance without consent, authority without accountability, and peace without........

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