In mid-January, Donald Trump announced his ‘Board of Peace’ (BoP) for governing Gaza, proving beyond doubt US imperialism’s intention to carve up the region and deny Palestinians any semblance of self-determination. In more than two years of genocide, during which the Zionist occupation has killed over 71,600 people in Gaza and destroyed all basic conditions of life, the Israeli war machine has failed to defeat the Palestinian resistance. The BoP is the instrument through which US imperialism intends to take direct control, liquidate the Palestinian liberation struggle and enshrine its own interests in the region.
‘Peace’ at what price?
The BoP was touted by US figures in September 2025, ahead of the 10 October ceasefire deal, as a ‘multinational force’ to govern, ‘deradicalise’ and develop Gaza. Claiming on 12 October that ‘the war is over’, Trump gave little detail on the BoP’s composition, though earlier comments on ethnically cleansing Gaza, a US-owned capitalist Riviera and ongoing imperialist backing for the Zionist slaughter gave a clear indication of its aims. The overtly colonialist proposal was passed at the UN on 17 November, with the support of British and EU powers and Arab and Turkish reactionaries, and Russian and Chinese abstention.
The BoP took shape amid constant Zionist ceasefire violations; by 26 January 2026, 486 Palestinians had been massacred by the occupation forces. At the Davos World Economic Forum in January, Trump’s son-in-law, senior adviser and pro-Zionist zealot Jared Kushner, presented a slideshow of AI images depicting a ‘New Gaza’ of gleaming skyscrapers and economic infrastructure. The path to ‘peace and prosperity’, Kushner said, meant ‘security, deradicalisation, a free-market economy and reconstruction.’ In his Davos speech on 22 January, Trump described Gaza – reduced to rubble by the US-backed Zionist onslaught – as a ‘great location’ and a ‘beautiful piece of property.’
The Board itself, made up of compliant heads of state, will oversee three further tiers: an Executive Board of pro-Zionist politicians and financiers; the Gaza Executive Board, and, subordinate to all of these, a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), the only body containing any Palestinians. As with Britain’s racist Balfour Declaration in 1917, this is a blueprint for dictatorship that enshrines imperialist and Zionist domination.
Warmongers, dictators, thieves: who makes the cut?
Board of Peace
This highest tier is chaired by Trump, apparently in perpetuity, who will have the power to veto proposals, sack appointees and essentially do exactly as he wants. Of around 62 ‘world leaders’ invited to join this Board, only 26 have so far accepted. They include Israeli prime minister and genocidist Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Qatar, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia. US officials have proposed participating states pay £1bn (into a fund administered by Trump) to secure their permanence and influence on the Board.
The wide-ranging remit of the Board has sparked fears among European imperialists; so far none of the G7 countries have accepted invitations to join, with US ally Hungary one of the few European nations to do so. Having initially been proposed as an organisation to oversee an imperialist-led governance of Gaza, when asked at Davos if it could replace the role of the UN, Trump said ‘it might’. This expansion of US influence is unacceptable to European imperialism, with French president Emmanuel Macron stating that the Board ‘goes beyond the framework of Gaza and raises serious questions, in particular with respect to the principles and structure of the United Nations, which cannot be called into question.’ Trump has threatened 200% tariffs on French wine to pressure Macron to change his mind.
Although Britain has not signed up to the BoP – citing concerns about the invitation issued to Russian President Vladimir Putin – Labour Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has insisted that the government still backs the Trump ‘peace plan’ and all efforts to ‘remove the threat of Hamas’.
Executive Board
Those appointed to the second tier of the BoP make clear what its utterly reactionary nature will be.
Tony Blair. Infamous former British Labour prime minister who led Britain into the imperialist invasions of former Yugoslavia (1999), Sierra Leone (2000), Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), where over 655,000 Iraqis were killed in three years. An ally of Zionist and Arab reactionaries across the region.
Marco Rubio. Counter-revolutionary Cuban and Catholic fundamentalist US Secretary of State, Rubio sees Jerusalem as the ‘eternal capital’ of the Zionist state. In February 2025 he described Trump’s plan to expel Gaza’s inhabitants as ‘very generous.’
Steve Witkoff. Championed Israeli control of ‘aid’ during the genocide, so that the June 2025 slaughter of queuing refugees near Rafah was dubbed the Witkoff massacre.
Jared Kushner. Preceded his boss with colonialist claims that US imperialism could turn Gaza into a lucrative beachfront Riviera. Through his Affinity Partners he manages billions of dollars in Saudi and Qatari finance.
Marc Rowen. A private equity billionaire Zionist, Rowen has led calls to silence pro-Palestine voices on US university campuses. A ‘proud supporter of Israel’, he manages huge Saudi and Emirati investment portfolios.
Ajay Banga. President of the World Bank and ally of India’s right-wing, anti-Muslim President Modi, Banga is a billionaire known for promoting privatisation inter-nationally.
Robert Gabriel. Deputy US national security adviser and Trump speech-writer.
Former Bulgarian minister Nickolay Mladenov will be the Board’s representative ‘on the ground’ as High Representative for Gaza, with the power to sack and appoint Palestinian members of the NCAG. He has close ties to the UAE and previously championed the Abraham Accords, normalising ties with Israel.
Gaza Executive Board
With Mladenov as figurehead, the BoP body directly responsible for Gaza is theoretically to operate under the BoP Executive. As well as Blair, Witkoff, Kushner and Rowen, some of the other ultra-reactionary members are:
Hakan Fidan. Turkish foreign minister under Erdogan, who appeared in Syria alongside HTS reactionaries just days after the December 2024 coup.
Ali Al-Thawadi. A Qatari diplomat and US ally who met with Netanyahu at the White House in February 2025.
General Hassan Rashad. Director of Egypt’s security services and repressive machinery, responsible for Egyptian involvement in Sudan.
Reem Al-Hashimy. Emirati minister for international cooperation who hailed the ‘historic’ normalisation between the UAE and the Zionist state in 2021.
NCAG
The Gaza Executive Board in turn will oversee the work of the NCAG, the only part of the organisation having any role ‘on the ground’ in Gaza, or involving even token Palestinian representation. It will be chaired by Ali Sha’ath who – along with several other figures such as Osama Al-Adaawi – is a long-time collaborator in the comprador Palestinian Authority (PA).
On 17 January Sha’ath signed a mission statement – shared enthusiastically by Kushner and others – demonstrating the total subordination of this body to Trump’s whims, as he posed for photos as Davos.
Disarming Gaza: future on the line
As the names were announced, Trump took to social media to again demand the Gaza resistance disarm, saying ‘they can do this the easy way, or the hard way.’ With massacres ongoing and Gaza effectively partitioned, Hamas and other factions have maintained their right to bear arms. At the end of December 2025, Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida called for ‘disarming the occupation of its lethal weaponry,’ and declared:
‘Our people defend themselves and will not give up their weapons as long as the occupation remains. They will not surrender, even if they must fight with their fingernails.’
As shown in moves against Iran, Yemen and Lebanon, imperialism is attempting to isolate the forces of resistance. On 27 January Masar Badil spokesman Khaled Barakat called on Palestinian resistance groups to adopt a ‘unified rejection of the so-called US Board of Peace through a declared position’. US imperialism, he said, is facing the ‘escalation of political, social and economic crises’, seeking to resolve them through war and conquest.
The same crises faced by the decaying global power of the US are generated in Britain, whose colonial parasitism first gave rise to the Zionist project. Declining economically and see-sawing between rival US and EU camps, the Labour government is also determined to crush the Palestinian resistance forces and eradicate any mobilisation in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. The demand for self-determination in Gaza means opposing the neocolonial ‘Board of Peace’ and imperialist plans for the Middle East, and building a principled revolutionary trend to confront the British imperialist state.
Down with colonialist plans for Gaza!
Isolate the Zionist state!
