![Displaced Palestinians struggle to carry on daily life amid the rubble as the Israeli attacks continue while the Palestinians are deprived of basic necessities, at the makeshift tents set up near their destroyed homes during cold weather on January 18, 2026, in Jabalia, Gaza Strip. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AA-20260118-40290650-40290622-ISRAELI_ATTACKS_CONTINUE_IN_GAZA_STRIP-1.jpg)
The idea of constituting a “Board of Peace” for Gaa may sound benevolent, even urgent, to those watching the carnage from a distance. It appeals to the liberal imagination: technocrats around a table, former leaders with gravitas, global figures invoking reconciliation, reconstruction, and stability. Yet beneath this humanitarian vocabulary lies a deeply flawed premise. Gaza does not suffer from a deficit of ideas, administrators, or plans. It suffers from occupation, siege, apartheid, and genocide. No board – however well branded – can substitute justice with management. Besides the plan will be carried out by a pre-dominantly a set of colonialists – Western dominated down to the bone. The formation and, thus the formulae that might emanate from it, will be […]
