Can Netanyahu Lead The Board Of Peace Away From Harm?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Netanyahu has seen combat.  He has been raised in war times.Respect his knowledge of what will happen in Gaza under Trump's plan.

Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly rejected the Board of Peace’s 15-point Gaza roadmap on Sunday, saying Israel would not carry out any IDF withdrawal from the Strip before Hamas is fully disarmed. The roadmap calls for a gradual Israeli withdrawal in parallel with partial stages of Hamas disarmament, rather than requiring Hamas to fully disarm before any withdrawal begins. Cabinet Ministers also criticized the disarmament, saying that the weapons would simply be transferred to Palestinian custodianship, and could then still be used against Israel. As of now, the IDF holds about 70% of Gazan territory.

      Left: Ajay Banga; Center:  Marco Rubio:  Steve Witkoff right ???

15-20 men backed by money and who has ever been a General?  Who has served in an army?  They are men backed by money.  They have no idea what war is like today in the Middle East with today's weapons and communication systems.  This is not the war of late.  All these men are following are Trump's lead.

Take Marco Rubio.  No, Marco Rubio has never served in the army or any branch of the armed forces. His career has been entirely in law and politics, serving as a local commissioner, state legislator, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State.

Take President Donald Trump:  No, Donald Trump never served in the United States military.

Take Steve Witkoff: Steve Witkoff has never served in the United States Army or any other branch of the military.

                        On the Israeli Side along with his cabinet

Take Netanyahu:   Benjamin Netanyahu served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1967 to 1972 as a team leader and captain in the elite special forces commando unit Sayeret Matkal, and returned from the US to fight in the 1973 Yom Kippur War .

Benny Gantz  Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is an Israeli politician and retired army general.

President Donald Trump's Board of Peace is an international body created to oversee post-war governance and reconstruction. The query about a 15-member group likely refers to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG)—the 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee on the ground—or the foundational Executive Board, rather than a fixed 15-country limit, as over 20 nations have joined. 

They all have jobs elsewhere other than to sit on this board which would take work, one would hope.  How can they possibly give any of themselves other than money?

Executive Board Members

The high-level executive team managing the initiative includes: [1]

Marco Rubio: U.S. Secretary of State
Steve Witkoff: U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
Jared Kushner: U.S. Advisor and Trump's son-in-law
Tony Blair: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Marc Rowan: CEO of Apollo Global Management
Ajay Banga: President of the World Bank Group
Robert Gabriel Jr.: American political and security advisor
Nickolay Mladenov: High Representative for Gaza and former UN envoy [1, 2, 3, 4]

Governance on the Ground

Right now Israel's IDF holds about 70% of Gazan territory that has come to them with their own blood and guts.  Gazans are still fully armed.  To reduce IDF in any amount reduces their % of protection for those remaining and the proposal gets worse as time goes by, with less and less IDF remaining.  

Weapons would simply be transferred from one Gazan to the other remaining Gazan as the facade continues.  Netanyahu is not going along with such an unwise proposition.  Israel's cabinet ministers, all army people, for all civilians have been serving their country in Israel and have been raised under war conditions, know that this is ridiculous.  

Trump really is making a fool out of himself, unfortunately, in this matter;  a man who has never served in any service for his own country---he dares to take the lives of Israelis now, and I note, after he has already played badly with the youth of Iran who were promised help and yet, 16,000 of them were machine-gunned down in their very own streets by their Ayatollah government ! 

I hand it to these men of honor and prestige and money;  they are in a position to help financially to bring about Trump's  dream to make Gaza a place of fun and games and honoring him,  but it seems to me that they are out of their element. Be wiser and heed Netanyahu's advice.   

Board Of Peace Come To Reality: Complete Disarmament of Hamas

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

              With Wisdom of the Sages: Today's Board Of Peace Came To Logical  Conclusion                   

;                                     Drum Roll, please

President Trump announced that the Board of Peace had reached an agreement requiring the complete disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. He wrote, "This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people. At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer used as a base for terror attacks.This is a major milestone in the implementation of the Trump 20-Point Plan. The agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors." Israeli officials seemed optimistic that Hamas would actually disarm, but how that will happen is still unclear. One possibility is that the arms will be warehoused and kept under the supervision of the governing Palestinian body or Board of Peace. Hamas will also have to provide maps of all its tunnels and arms factories and depots.

Trump's Board of Peace Already Launched

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

President Trump launched his Board of Peace at the Davos economic forum today. About 35 countries have committed to join, according to U.S. officials. Countries represented at the launch included Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Belarus, Bahrain and Morocco, as well as Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Paraguay. 

Israel and Hungary have also said they will join.

 France, Great Britain aren't joining and 

China and Russia are thinking about it, although Trump said that Putin had already agreed to join. 

Trump has said permanent members would be required to contribute $1 billion each to help fund the board.

It is to be governed by its own private charter which only names one person, "Chairman Trump," who may adopt resolutions or initiatives on its behalf without consulting the board, and who is a member for life. 

Experts said Trump is trying to make the organization into an alternative to the United Nations Security Council where only he has veto power.  

Trump said on 20 January 2026 that "the United Nations never helped me" as a reason for his creation of the "Board of Peace," claiming his board "might" replace the United Nations.

It has been described as a vanity project. After not getting the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Trump said he no longer feels an "obligation to think purely of Peace". The Guardian called it "a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself," arguing that the body ultimately outlined bore little resemblance to what the United Nations Security Council believed it was endorsing. 

The UN has failed Israel, so I have given up on it bringing any peace to Israel or the rest of the world.  This Board of Peace is not suitable, either.  It's an extension of an emperor's plans to rule the world.  Trump's not the world's idea of the Messiah who is to bring peace to this crazy world.