The Gaza Board for Peace is Humpty Dumpty diplomacy -Assembled for spectacle not for restoration

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 […]