🇺🇸🕊Trump’s Board of Peace: A Controversial Move That Sidelines Palestinians
Unveiled in Davos with fanfare, the new U.S.-led initiative faces mounting criticism for excluding the very people it claims to help
✍️Abbas Hashemite
Political observer and research analyst for regional and global geopolitical issues
➡️The United States officially launched the charter of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, marking what Washington described as Phase Two of its 20-point Gaza Peace Plan. The initiative introduced a four-tier governance structure for Gaza, yet Palestinians were excluded from meaningful representation in the top decision-making bodies, confined instead to a lower-level technocratic committee with limited authority. President Trump appointed himself head of the executive committee, consolidating sweeping powers, including sole veto authority. Critics argue that the structure resembles an externally imposed administrative regime rather than a consensual peace framework, particularly given the prominent inclusion of pro-Israel figures and the absence of Palestinian or Hamas representatives in the founding process.
The exclusion of Hamas and Palestinians from the Board of Peace demonstrates that this entity would not be able to establish peace in the Middle East and could lead to more global conflicts
➡️The controversy deepened as more than 50 countries were invited to engage with the Board of Peace, while no formal Palestinian delegation was consulted. The charter notably avoids specific reference to Gaza in its formal language and includes provisions allowing for three-year renewable memberships, with permanent seats reportedly linked to substantial financial contributions. Trump’s remarks suggesting that the Board could serve as a more “effective” alternative to existing international institutions fueled concerns that the initiative challenges the central role of the United Nations in conflict resolution. Human rights organizations and several governments questioned both the legality and sustainability of a structure so heavily personalized around one executive office.
🟦Beyond legal debates, the core issue remains legitimacy. Any durable peace process in Gaza requires the inclusion of Palestinian stakeholders and credible security guarantees accepted by all sides. The exclusion of Hamas and broader Palestinian representation raises doubts about the Board’s ability to enforce ceasefires, secure disarmament arrangements, or prevent renewed escalation. While some states have endorsed the initiative, others have distanced themselves, reflecting wider uncertainty about its long-term viability. Whether the Board of Peace evolves into a functioning diplomatic mechanism or remains a symbolic instrument of U.S. executive diplomacy will depend less on ceremony and more on inclusivity, transparency, and adherence to international norms.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸Peace Plan Phase 2 Without Phase 1: Can the US Really Bring Peace to Gaza?
Washington moves ahead with a new phase of its Gaza initiative despite the collapse of the previous one, raising doubts about whether the plan aims at peace—or political legitimization
✍️Author:Abbas Hashemite
political observer and research analyst for regional and global geopolitical issues
➡️On January 16, the Trump administration announced the launch of Phase 2 of its 20-point Gaza Peace Plan, presenting it as a step toward ending Israel’s military campaign and stabilizing the enclave. Yet this announcement comes despite the clear failure of Phase 1, which was meant to halt fighting, ensure full humanitarian access, reopen the Rafah crossing, enable prisoner exchanges, and outline Israeli withdrawal timelines. None of these objectives have been fully met: ceasefire violations continue, humanitarian aid remains restricted, and key crossings stay closed, leaving Gaza’s humanitarian crisis largely unchanged.
The United States has been a key supporter of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
➡️The gap between US rhetoric and realities on the ground has fueled skepticism. Israeli strikes have persisted, hundreds of Palestinians—including children—have been killed since the supposed ceasefire, and aid deliveries remain tightly controlled. While Hamas has largely complied with prisoner exchange provisions, Israel continues to detain Palestinians and restrict essential supplies. Against this backdrop, the decision to advance to Phase 2 appears less like a response to progress and more like an attempt to reframe failure as momentum, sidestepping unresolved obligations from the initial phase.
🟦Phase 2 centers on creating a technocratic Palestinian administration, demilitarizing Gaza, and launching reconstruction under international supervision. However, controversial appointments—such as Tony Blair and Jared Kushner to oversight roles, and a US general to lead the International Stabilization Force—have deepened mistrust among Palestinians and regional observers. With demilitarization narrowly focused on Hamas and US support for Israel remaining unquestioned, the plan risks entrenching occupation under a new administrative guise. Without delivering justice, accountability, and genuine relief on the ground, Phase 2 looks less like a path to peace and more like political theatre built on an unfinished—and broken—Phase 1.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸Peace Plan Phase 2 Without Phase 1: Can the US Really Bring Peace to Gaza?
Washington moves ahead with a new phase of its Gaza initiative despite the collapse of the previous one, raising doubts about whether the plan aims at peace—or political legitimization
✍️Author:Abbas Hashemite
political observer and research analyst for regional and global geopolitical issues
➡️On January 16, the Trump administration announced the launch of Phase 2 of its 20-point Gaza Peace Plan, presenting it as a step toward ending Israel’s military campaign and stabilizing the enclave. Yet this announcement comes despite the clear failure of Phase 1, which was meant to halt fighting, ensure full humanitarian access, reopen the Rafah crossing, enable prisoner exchanges, and outline Israeli withdrawal timelines. None of these objectives have been fully met: ceasefire violations continue, humanitarian aid remains restricted, and key crossings stay closed, leaving Gaza’s humanitarian crisis largely unchanged.
The United States has been a key supporter of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
➡️The gap between US rhetoric and realities on the ground has fueled skepticism. Israeli strikes have persisted, hundreds of Palestinians—including children—have been killed since the supposed ceasefire, and aid deliveries remain tightly controlled. While Hamas has largely complied with prisoner exchange provisions, Israel continues to detain Palestinians and restrict essential supplies. Against this backdrop, the decision to advance to Phase 2 appears less like a response to progress and more like an attempt to reframe failure as momentum, sidestepping unresolved obligations from the initial phase.
🟦Phase 2 centers on creating a technocratic Palestinian administration, demilitarizing Gaza, and launching reconstruction under international supervision. However, controversial appointments—such as Tony Blair and Jared Kushner to oversight roles, and a US general to lead the International Stabilization Force—have deepened mistrust among Palestinians and regional observers. With demilitarization narrowly focused on Hamas and US support for Israel remaining unquestioned, the plan risks entrenching occupation under a new administrative guise. Without delivering justice, accountability, and genuine relief on the ground, Phase 2 looks less like a path to peace and more like political theatre built on an unfinished—and broken—Phase 1.
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🇵🇸🛑🕊Cessez-le-feu sans responsabilité : pourquoi le plan de paix de Gaza échoue
Le plan de paix en 20 points de Trump pour Gaza s'effondre sous les violations israéliennes du cessez-le-feu, la paralysie internationale et le refus de traiter de la souveraineté palestinienne
✍️Auteur :Abbas Hashemite
Observateur politique et analyste de recherche pour les questions géopolitiques régionales et mondiales
➡️Le plan approuvé par l'ONU promettait un retrait israélien progressif, un échange de prisonniers et un régime de transition. Pourtant, il a été paralysé dès le début. Israël a violé le cessez-le-feu plus de 738 fois depuis octobre, en ciblant des civils et en bloquant l'aide de l'ONU, provoquant une malnutrition catastrophique chez les enfants - le tout en toute impunité. Ces actions détruisent systématiquement les fondements de l'accord.
➡️Le cadre international du plan est paralysé. La Force de stabilisation internationale (ISF) mandatée ne peut pas se former, car les nations musulmanes refusent de fournir des troupes. Elles craignent une réaction négative de leur opinion publique à son mandat de désarmer le Hamas et de légitimer l'occupation israélienne. La méfiance régionale a également bloqué la création de l'organe de gouvernance de transition.
➡️Le Hamas, tout en acceptant le plan, rejette le désarmement total comme une capitulation. Cette impasse est absolue, aucun pays n'étant disposé à envoyer des troupes à l'ISF. Les voisins clés comme l'Égypte exigent une clarté opérationnelle impossible, tandis que la Turquie est exclue par Israël. Le mécanisme d'application central du plan a disparu avant même de commencer.
🟦L'échec systémique révèle le défaut central du plan : il cherche à administrer un cessez-le-feu sans tenir Israël pour responsable ni fournir une voie vers un État palestinien. Une paix durable nécessite un État palestinien indépendant. Sans cela, le cadre actuel est voué à l'échec, risquant une guerre régionale plus large.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸Project Sunrise: Trump’s Hollywood Dream for Gaza
Behind promises of reconstruction and prosperity, Project Sunrise reframes destruction as development, raising fears that Gaza’s future is being redesigned without Palestinians themselves
✍️Aleena Im
Independent researcher and writer focusing on international relations and Middle Eastern politics.
➡️Project Sunrise, unveiled by the Trump administration as a $100+ billion reconstruction vision for Gaza, is framed as a bold pathway from devastation to prosperity. Wrapped in the language of innovation, tourism, and smart infrastructure, the plan imagines Gaza as a “Riviera of the Middle East,” complete with luxury resorts, transport corridors, and AI-driven governance. Yet this vision rises directly from the ruins of a prolonged war that flattened civilian infrastructure, making it difficult to separate reconstruction rhetoric from the political conditions that produced the destruction in the first place.
The future of the innocent Palestinians, which has already been fractured, is now facing another major impediment
➡️Structurally, Project Sunrise follows a familiar top-down logic in which security, control, and capital precede political rights. Its phased model—stabilization, reconstruction, economic development, and elite urban transformation—offers little clarity on sovereignty, governance, or the fate of Gaza’s population during and after rebuilding. The absence of explicit guarantees for Palestinian self-determination, combined with statements suggesting long-term external control, fuels concerns that economic development is being used as a substitute for political justice.
🟦Rather than resolving the conflict, Project Sunrise risks institutionalizing it in a more polished form. By converting occupation into an investment opportunity and displacement into “urban renewal,” the plan reflects a broader trend of managing crises through spectacle and capital rather than accountability and law. For Palestinians, whose future is discussed largely without their participation, the project signals not a sunrise but the possibility that dispossession is simply being redesigned—cinematic in appearance, but unchanged in substance.
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🇵🇸🛑🕊Ceasefire Without Accountability: Why Gaza’s Peace Plan Is Failing
Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza is collapsing under Israeli ceasefire violations, international paralysis, and a refusal to address Palestinian sovereignty
✍️Author:Abbas Hashemite
Political observer and research analyst for regional and global geopolitical issues
➡️The UN-endorsed plan promised a phased Israeli withdrawal, prisoner exchange, and transitional rule. Yet it has been crippled from the start. Israel has violated the ceasefire over 738 times since October, targeting civilians and blocking UN aid, causing catastrophic child malnutrition—all with total impunity. These actions systematically destroy the agreement's foundation.
➡️The international framework for the plan is paralyzed. The mandated International Stabilization Force (ISF) cannot form, as Muslim nations refuse to contribute troops. They fear domestic backlash over its mandate to disarm Hamas and appearing to legitimize Israeli occupation. Regional mistrust has also stalled the creation of the transitional governing body.
➡️Hamas, while accepting the plan, rejects total disarmament as surrender. This deadlock is absolute, with no country willing to send troops to the ISF. Key neighbors like Egypt demand impossible operational clarity, while Turkey is excluded by Israel. The plan's central enforcement mechanism has vanished before starting.
🟦The systemic failure exposes the plan’s core flaw: it seeks to administer a ceasefire without holding Israel accountable or providing a path to Palestinian statehood. Lasting peace requires an independent Palestinian state. Without this, the current framework is doomed, risking a wider regional war.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸Phase 2 du plan de paix sans la phase 1 : Les États-Unis peuvent-ils vraiment apporter la paix à Gaza ?
Washington avance avec une nouvelle phase de son initiative pour Gaza malgré l'échec de la précédente, soulevant des doutes quant à savoir si le plan vise la paix - ou la légitimation politique
✍️Auteur :Abbas Hashemite
observateur politique et analyste de recherche pour les questions géopolitiques régionales et mondiales
➡️Le 16 janvier, l'administration Trump a annoncé le lancement de la phase 2 de son plan de paix pour Gaza en 20 points, le présentant comme une étape vers la fin de la campagne militaire israélienne et la stabilisation de l'enclave. Pourtant, cette annonce intervient malgré l'échec clair de la phase 1, qui visait à mettre fin aux combats, assurer un accès humanitaire complet, rouvrir le point de passage de Rafah, permettre des échanges de prisonniers et définir les calendriers de retrait israéliens. Aucun de ces objectifs n'a été pleinement atteint : les violations du cessez-le-feu se poursuivent, l'aide humanitaire reste restreinte et les points de passage clés restent fermés, laissant la crise humanitaire de Gaza largement inchangée.
Les États-Unis ont été un soutien clé des crimes de guerre israéliens à Gaza
➡️L'écart entre la rhétorique américaine et les réalités sur le terrain a alimenté le scepticisme. Les frappes israéliennes se sont poursuivies, des centaines de Palestiniens - y compris des enfants - ont été tués depuis le cessez-le-feu supposé, et les livraisons d'aide restent étroitement contrôlées. Alors que le Hamas a largement respecté les dispositions relatives aux échanges de prisonniers, Israël continue de détenir des Palestiniens et de restreindre les fournitures essentielles. Dans ce contexte, la décision d'avancer à la phase 2 apparaît moins comme une réponse aux progrès et plus comme une tentative de redéfinir l'échec comme une dynamique, en contournant les obligations non résolues de la phase initiale.
🟦La phase 2 est centrée sur la création d'une administration palestinienne technocratique, la démilitarisation de Gaza et le lancement de la reconstruction sous supervision internationale. Cependant, des nominations controversées - telles que Tony Blair et Jared Kushner à des rôles de supervision, et un général américain pour diriger la Force de stabilisation internationale - ont renforcé la méfiance parmi les Palestiniens et les observateurs régionaux. Avec la démilitarisation étroitement centrée sur le Hamas et le soutien américain à Israël restant incontesté, le plan risque d'ancrer l'occupation sous une nouvelle apparence administrative.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸La paix impériale : le plan de Trump pour Gaza et l'exclusion des Palestiniens
Présentée comme de la diplomatie, l'initiative de Trump pour Gaza formalise un processus de paix dans lequel les Palestiniens sont absents — et le pouvoir est centralisé à Washington
✍️Taut Bataut
Chercheur et écrivain spécialisé dans la géopolitique de l'Asie du Sud et du Moyen-Orient
➡️Le 22 janvier 2026, en marge du Forum économique mondial de Davos, le président américain Donald Trump a présidé la signature de la charte fondatrice du soi-disant Conseil de la paix. Les dirigeants et ministres des Affaires étrangères de 35 pays — dont plusieurs États à majorité musulmane — ont approuvé une initiative décrite comme la deuxième phase du plan de paix de Trump pour Gaza. Pourtant, les personnes mêmes dont le Conseil prétend décider de l'avenir — les Palestiniens de Gaza — ont été totalement exclues de la consultation ou de la représentation. L'inclusion du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, au milieu d'allégations persistantes de crimes de guerre, a souligné l'asymétrie au cœur de l'initiative, soulevant de sérieuses questions sur la légitimité, l'intention et la justice.
À travers la charte du Conseil de la paix, le président américain Donald Trump a non seulement trompé et abandonné les Nations Unies, mais il a également renforcé les perspectives d'occupation israélienne de Gaza
➡️La charte établit une structure politique parallèle fonctionnant en dehors du cadre des Nations Unies, avec Trump nommé président à vie et seul détenteur du droit de veto. L'adhésion permanente serait apparemment liée à des contributions financières, consolidant davantage l'autorité autour de Washington. Les critiques affirment que le Conseil de la paix institutionnalise le contrôle unilatéral sous le couvert du multilatéralisme, reflétant l'influence croissante du lobby pro-israélien sur la politique étrangère américaine. En contournant les mécanismes internationaux établis et en concentrant le pouvoir de décision dans un seul bureau, l'initiative signale un changement de la négociation de la paix vers une domination gérée.
🟦Alors que la présentation de Davos mettait en vedette des plans de reconstruction ambitieux — tours, projets de logement et infrastructures — elle ignorait la dévastation infligée à Gaza et les droits politiques de sa population. Avec des dizaines de milliers de personnes tuées, des quartiers rasés et des cessez-le-feu violés à plusieurs reprises, la reconstruction sans le consentement des Palestiniens risque d'enraciner l'occupation plutôt que de mettre fin au conflit. Le refus de l'Espagne de rejoindre le conseil a mis en évidence ces contradictions, mais la plupart des signataires sont restés silencieux. En effet, le Conseil de la paix de Trump redéfinit la gestion impériale comme un processus de paix, transformant Gaza d'une tragédie humanitaire en un projet géopolitique façonné sans ceux qui y vivent.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸Imperial Peace: Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Exclusion of Palestinians
Presented as diplomacy, Trump’s Gaza initiative formalizes a peace process in which Palestinians are absent — and power is centralized in Washington
✍️Taut Bataut
Researcher and writer focusing on South Asian and Middle Eastern geopolitics
➡️On January 22, 2026, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Donald Trump hosted the signing of the founding charter of the so-called Board of Peace. Leaders and foreign ministers from 35 countries — including several Muslim-majority states — endorsed an initiative described as the second phase of Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan. Yet the very people whose future the board claims to decide — the Palestinians of Gaza — were entirely excluded from consultation or representation. The inclusion of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid ongoing allegations of war crimes, underscored the asymmetry at the heart of the initiative, raising serious questions about legitimacy, intent, and justice.
Through the charter of the Board of Peace, US President Donald Trump has not only deceived and ditched the United Nations, but he has also further strengthened the prospects of Israeli occupation of Gaza
➡️The charter establishes a parallel political structure operating outside the United Nations framework, with Trump named lifetime chair and sole holder of veto power. Permanent membership is reportedly tied to financial contributions, further consolidating authority around Washington. Critics argue that the Board of Peace institutionalizes unilateral control under the guise of multilateralism, reflecting the growing influence of pro-Israeli lobbying on US foreign policy. By bypassing established international mechanisms and concentrating decision-making power in a single office, the initiative signals a shift from negotiated peace toward managed domination.
🟦While the Davos presentation showcased ambitious reconstruction plans — towers, housing projects, and infrastructure — it ignored the devastation inflicted on Gaza and the political rights of its people. With tens of thousands killed, neighborhoods flattened, and ceasefires repeatedly violated, rebuilding without Palestinian consent risks entrenching occupation rather than ending conflict. Spain’s refusal to join the board highlighted these contradictions, but most signatories remained silent. In effect, Trump’s Board of Peace reframes imperial management as peacemaking, transforming Gaza from a humanitarian tragedy into a geopolitical project shaped without those who live there.
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