President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” is really a Board of Colonial Plunder — an imperialist den of thieves who want to seize Gaza’s oil reserves and cash in through real estate investment designed for international tourism.
The Board’s creation was spearheaded by the United States and part of the Oct. 2025 alleged ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups. Donald Trump has declared himself the Board’s chairman for life.
The Board’s primary task is to be the ultimate political authority overseeing the redevelopment of Gaza — yet there are no Palestinians involved. It is made up of modern-day imperialist forces who were the original oppressors responsible for the Balfour Declaration, a 1917 statement by the British Crown declaring support for political Zionism and the colonization of Palestine.
Trump and his billionaire cronies’ idea of development does not focus on rebuilding homes for the people of Gaza, but for U.S. and international big real estate to rake in major profits from a beach front resort and data centers.
It sets up a colonial administration that disempowers and further punishes the victims, and rewards and empowers the perpetrators. The United States, a co-perpetrator of the genocide in Gaza, has seized control of Gaza, and has included in Board decisions the very Israeli government that committed the genocide. Under the plan, Palestinians themselves are to be granted no such participation in decisions on their own rights, governance, and lives.
The Board of Plunder met for the first time on Feb. 19, where billionaire Marc Rowan outlined steps in a plan for reconstruction, culminating in 400,000 housing units and $30 billion in civilian infrastructure.
Rowan is on the Board’s Executive Committee alongside Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who previously announced a “master plan” to convert Gaza into an investment opportunity including coastal tourism, sports facilities, industrial complexes, data centers, advanced manufacturing, an airport and limited residential areas. His repeated references to “New Rafah” and “New Gaza” in his speech and slides are an unfathomable insult to Palestinians, as this is a clear attempt to entirely purge Gaza of its Palestinian identity.
Kusher’s plan reinforces a leaked Sept. 2025 document detailing the Trump administration’s plans to create a “Gaza Riviera” by forcibly relocating two million Palestinians to make way for “AI-powered smart cities,” and includes an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone.”
“We have already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition,” Kushner said in his January speech in Davos. “New Gaza, it could be a hope, it could be a destination, have a lot of industry.”
The United States is planning to build a new military base in the southern Gaza Strip, according to documents reviewed by The Guardian. The military compound surrounded by barbed wire would spread over 15,000 square feet with warehouses, a shooting range, and watchtowers. A document leaked in August 2025 revealed plans for deep port construction to mine natural gas in the Gaza Marine.
Member States of the Board of Plunder include Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey – mediators in the Gaza ceasefire deal – Albania, Argentina, El Salvador, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel. International war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also a member. These members must pay $1 billion into this so-called redevelopment to be included as members after the first three years.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack Palestinians in Gaza and continues to withhold aid in constant violation of the ceasefire deal. In truth, the Oct 2025 “ceasefire” which Trump claims credit for, never happened. Israel has killed some more than 600 Palestinians since October, including at least 100 children. It has demolished an additional 2,500 buildings, many of them the last left standing in Gaza. And Israel continues to deny Gaza food, water, medicines and shelter.
Palestine and U.S. ‘Indian termination policies‘
The “Board of Peace” acts in the direct historic legacy of the 1948 Nakba in Palestine, but also the 1830 Indian Removal Act, and the “Indian termination policies” of 1940-1960 in the United States. These policies offered Indigenous people piddling financial compensation or nothing at all in exchange for being forcibly removed from their homelands to make way for white colonizers. The Board of Plunder is likewise offering Palestinians a pathetic four years of rent subsidies, one year of food subsidies, and $5,000 to permanently relocate themselves from their ancestral homeland.
This is the contemporary “White Man’s Burden” and “Manifest Destiny,” an attempt at colonial expansion and complete elimination of Gaza and the Palestinian people. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it plainly in his speech to the Munich Security Conference this month, where he spoke about “the great Western empires” age of decline and a resurgence of an “age of dominance” that was met with a standing ovation by the European imperialists he addressed:
We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture, and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it. And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo, rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it. For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.
But it is no longer 1830 or 1948. Imperialism has been exposed and is widely despised by millions of people across the world, in large part due to Israel’s genocide in Palestine and the mass resistance and protest of the Palestinian people, which sparked a solidarity movement of millions around the world. Capitalism and imperialism are in a stage of decay. It is clear to everyday people that the Trump administration and its international allies have nothing to offer but repression and lies. The Board of Peace will not erase the Palestinian struggle — its severe repression will create a new generation of Palestine fighters. And the world will continue to stand with them.
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