Over the past several days, the “Board of Peace,” the long-awaited Trump-led body that promised to turn the Gaza Strip into what amounts to an international viceroyalty, was finally announced. Among its founding members were politicians like Tony Blair and Marco Rubio, and financiers like Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan and World Bank President Ajay Banga. A multitude of countries — such as the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Vietnam, and Canada — have agreed to participate in the board’s operations. Talk in the press and in the diplomatic world about the Board of Peace have taken on momentous overtones, obscuring the fact that its creation has not been a blissful negotiation but a sudden lurch over a cliff. ….more
