The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in resolute opposition to the Trump administration's attempt to repackage the genocide of the Palestinian people into a financial venture under its newly unveiled "Board of Peace." This so-called board, launched at the Davos summit, is a colonial blueprint for Gaza’s future, a direct assault on international law in an attempt to once again bend the world to the will of US imperialism.
This “vision” serves to legitimize the ongoing Israeli genocide while systematically dismantling the legitimate Palestinian armed resistance through a combination of military intervention, economic coercion and psychological warfare. It is also the desperate gambit of a declining empire, abandoning the pretense of rules-based international order and its institutions like the UN it once championed, to a more overt form of domination and control over strategic zones it is steadily losing to key rivals, namely Russia and China.
The "Board of Zionists”
The roster and administration for this so-called "Board of Peace", an instrument designed to oversee the pacification and colonial administration of Gaza in the wake of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, is a caricature of imperialist fantasy. Trump has appointed himself chairman with a life-long term, demanding a $1 billion entry fee from any state wishing to join, with all funds to be directly controlled by the White House. The board's composition has fully backed the Israeli war of genocide against the Palestinian people and has a recorded history of contributing to the Israeli settler colonial project way before 2023.
Its founding coalition of warlords and finance capitalists includes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose legacy is most known for his staunch support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq justified by the US and allies over false claims of "chemical weapons production" and subsequent actions of the war on terror that killed millions in West Asia. Blair aligned with the US and Israel to boycott Hamas after its 2006 electoral victory, while his institute has proudly accepted funds from donors linked to illegal Israeli settlements. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and the architect of the “Century Deal” that proposed annexing West Bank settlements, was instrumental in the Abraham Accords, which attempts to normalize relations between Arab nations and the Zionist entity. He has since suggested forcibly relocating Gazans to the Negev desert to "clean up" Gaza so Israel could "finish the job." His associate Aryeh Lightstone, a former senior aide to pro-settlement ambassador David Friedman, now assists Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate investor with no diplomatic experience whose ceasefire proposal was fully coordinated with Israel and avoids guaranteeing an end to the war in Gaza so that Israel can restart its slaughter at any time without accountability. Completing this circle is Josh Gruenbaum, elevated to a senior role in the "Board of Peace" despite having no foreign policy background, who rose to prominence by leading a crackdown on US universities over pro-Palestinian activism on campuses, threatening to revoke federal contracts over what he called “anti-Zionist” speech.
Also included in the initial roster of participating states are comprador regimes and anti-people governments aligned with US interests like reactionary Persian Gulf monarchies. Amongst those invited is the chief architect of the war of genocide on Palestine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the very day of its announcement of the "Board of Peace," Israeli military forces killed eleven Palestinians in Gaza, among them two children and three members of the press. Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes conducted a major bombardment across southern Lebanon, targeting the towns of Qennarit, Kfour, Jarjou’, al-Kharayeb, and Ansar.
These attacks amount to the continued Israeli violations to the ceasefire signed in October. Since then, Israel has violated the truce more than 1,200 times, killing more than 450 Palestinians, restricting vital aid, and blocking all reconstruction from happening. In response, the US has refused to recognize a single violation, instead rewarding this campaign of terror by inviting Netanyahu to sit on its "Board of Peace.”
Trying to make a business out of Gaza
The "Sunrise Plan," the official branding for Trump's proposed "reconstruction" of Gaza, was also presented at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Drafted by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the plan unveiled in a PowerPoint to investors and other governments repackages the ethnic cleansing and ongoing genocide of Palestinians into a four-phase, twenty-year project to transform Gaza into a "smart city" and "Middle Eastern Riviera.”
This “vision” seeks to dismantle Gaza’s identity as a center of Palestinian resistance and memory, rebranding the besieged enclave as an investment opportunity for major US corporations. This plan, built over the bodies of Palestinians, promises profits in civil construction, AI, and tourism and it is predicated in the total disarmament of Palestinian resistance, which would leave the Palestinian people at the mercy of the very institutions that have pursued their subjugation through settler-colonialism since 1948 and before, as well as the same people who continue to wage a genocidal war against them.
The project explicitly calls for massive investment from Western and Persian Gulf-based financial stakeholders, turning Gaza's reconstruction into a speculative venture for the world's biggest capitalists. By sharing the plan with key Persian Gulf partners to "deliberate and exploit the opportunity," and turn occupied Palestine ravaged by war and genocide into the "the world’s most iconic destination," the US aims to turn a beacon of hope for all subjugated people of the world living under the boot of US imperialism into paradise for consumption and finance capital built atop the ruins of a whole people.
Trump’s peace is the people's demise
With the "Board of Peace" Trump continues to propagandize himself as a reliable and honest force that will bring peace to West Asia. But after continued funding for Israel's genocidal war and political and moral backing for the Zionist occupation, Trump's populist presidential campaign slogans to bring "peace to the Middle East" have been fully unmasked to the vast majority of the world. As Zionists seek to complete the erasure of the Palestinian people, the US does whatever it must to keep the project of the occupation alive and strong so as to fulfill its interests in the region and unleash a war of aggression against Iran and the forces of the Axis of Resistance.
Project Sunrise is nothing more than an appeasement to US monopoly capitalists in the real-estate empire to invest in the so-called "re-development" of Gaza, a project that could only be fulfilled after the defeat of the resistance and the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This is not a new way of thinking for US imperialism and even though Trump was the one to ride on the bandwagon of "President of Peace," the US has always viewed conflict resolution as just another business deal, not a genuine end to the root causes of conflict. US imperialists are always looking for more profits, not peace. Trump's so-called "peace presidency" follows this same trend, and US corporations, financial investors, and other war profiteers continue to line up to collect their payout over the bodies of those killed by US-led war.
The "Board of Peace" also represents an escalation in the US project to strip away all remaining constraints on its imperialist aims.
While the US policy has long sidestepped international law, the UN Charter, and the very multilateral systems it built and championed as it aided in their exploitation, its current crisis, marked by strategic decline in the face of growing inter-imperialist competition, has rendered even the facade of a "rules-based order" too cumbersome to maintain.
Launched under the cover of the Gaza ceasefire, this body is, in practice, the opposite of its name. Trump has framed it as a “bold new approach to resolving global conflicts.” However, its true aims are to consolidate full US control over its policies and actions, placing Trump himself as its chairman for life. This move follows his explicit dismissal of international law, having declared that only his “own morality” will curtail the bellicose policies he is advancing worldwide, a statement made following the unlawful abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.
In reality the US has long operated on a doctrine only imposing international law when it served its narrative while ignoring any mandate against itself, positioning the US as the de facto king of the world under a façade of a rules -based order. One has to just remember the US dismissal of the International Criminal Court or its covert war in Nicaragua. Treaties on climate and nuclear diplomacy are treated as temporary concessions, discarded the moment they conflict with US objectives.
Since the post-war era, international law has been a weapon used against adversaries and a shield ignored for itself. The role-play depended on the complicity of its imperialist allies, particularly in Europe, who for decades nurtured the fiction of a benevolent hegemon bound by the same rules it enforced on others. That fiction is now dissolving, revealing what the US always was.
The US-Israeli war on the Palestinian people has put the final nail in the coffin of the façade of international law and allowed the US to test the limits of how far it could go with its barbarity. The Western nations led by the US have maintained steadfast support for Israel throughout its military campaign in Gaza, a war which Palestinian authorities report has resulted in at least 71,000 fatalities; with many others still to be dug out from under the rubble. This continued backing of the US for the first ever live-streamed genocide even as the International Criminal Court seeks Netanyahu’s arrest allowed the US to expand the idea of how far it could go without being stopped by its Western allies.
Only Palestinians can decide their fate
Through immense and unyielding sacrifice, the steadfast resistance forces and the unified free and sovereign people in Palestine and its allies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and beyond persist as the sole force capable of obstructing the brutal machinery of empire in West Asia. As international law failed the Palestinian people for decades, the Resistance carried the banner of justice and self-determination, giving their lives for the struggle for a just peace. The resistance and its factions stand united against the US war machine’s insatiable drive for profit and the Zionist project’s genocidal logic of expansion. The resistance has consistently demonstrated that no ceasefire or political plan will be accepted if it demands the Palestinian people surrender their fundamental right to represent themselves and fight for their own liberation. The global movement for justice must stand in unwavering solidarity with this essential defense of self-determination, recognizing it as a frontline struggle against imperialism itself.
The so-called “Board of Peace” serves as further proof that US imperialism has never sought peace, only the consolidation of power and a profitable management through violence. It is a tool designed not to end war, but to dismantle the resistance and secure colonial control and open markets for plunder.
By the Resist US-Led War Movement
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