Last week President Donald Trump officially announced the members of the Gaza Board of Peace; an organization headed by President Trump and tasked to oversee the second phase of his plan to end the Israeli conflict in Gaza, specifically the reconstruction and disarmament of Gaza and Hamas respectively. [SEE HERE]
The members of the “Board of Peace,” chaired by Trump himself, includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Emissary Steve Witkoff; Jared Kushner; former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; an American-Jewish billionaire named Mark Rowan; World Bank President Ajay Banga; and Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, Robert Gabriel. President/Chairman Donald Trump has also appointed Aryeh Lightstone and Josh Gruenbaum as senior advisors to the Board of Peace.
At the same time, President Trump announced another executive body that would operate under the Peace Council to assist with the facilitation of a new Palestinian government, the “Gaza Executive Board.” This structure is intended to manage day to day events on the ground instead of a Hamas loyalist govt. The appointees to the executive board have upset the Netanyahu government of Israel.
According to the White House announcement, the Gaza Executive Board will include: Witkoff; Kushner; Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan; senior Qatari official Ali al-Thawadi; Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad; Tony Blair; billionaire Mark Rowan; UAE Minister Reem Al Hashimi; former Bulgarian Foreign and Defense Minister Nickolay Mladenov, who also served as the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process; U.N Representative Sigrid Kagg, and Israeli-Cypriot businessman Yakir Gabbay, who specializes in real estate, technology and international investments.
Additionally, to establish security, preserve peace, and establish a durable terror-free environment, Major General Jasper Jeffers has been appointed Commander of the International Stabilization Force (ISF), where he will lead security operations, support comprehensive demilitarization, and enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials. [link]
According to Israeli media Netanyahu is not happy, and planning to protest the Turkish, Qatari and UAE appointments to Marco Rubio (not Trump):
“A very unusual statement by the prime minister against the US president, following the publication of the members of the “Executive Committee for Gaza” – which includes, among other things, the Turkish foreign minister and a senior Qatari official. “The announcement of the panel was not coordinated with Israel and is contrary to its policy,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.
“The announcement of the composition of Gaza’s Executive Committee, which is subordinate to the peace conference, was not coordinated with Israel and is contrary to its policy,” the Prime Minister’s Office said, adding that “the prime minister has instructed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to contact US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on this matter.” (more)
Within the appointments for the executive board, the use of Turkey, Qatar and UAE officials for the governance and reconstruction of Gaza explains the recent parsing of the Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist enablers. When Secretary Rubio made the terrorist designation announcement, the Turkish and Qatari Muslim Brotherhood chapters were notably absent. With the Gaza initiative ongoing, now we see coordinated pragmatism at work.
Rubio chose to focus on Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon to target the Muslim Brotherhood. As we noted, “The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were chased out of the country by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over a decade ago. The Jordanian chapter is similarly aligned and was previously targeted by King Abdullah. The Lebanese faction is not as well known, but their support for Hamas is well understood.” {Go Deep}
A few things are obvious.
First, President Trump and Secretary Rubio knew in advance they were going to need the strong influences of Qatar and Turkey if they were going to stabilize the interim Gaza reconstruction governing system. Secondly, both Trump and Rubio knew Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wouldn’t like that; however, pragmatically Trump and Rubio are doing what is in the best interest of the region as a whole, not being narrowly focused on Israel. Additionally, these appointments have upset the Israel-first influencer group in the U.S.
President Trump is restructuring mid-east stability without the need for direct U.S. intervention. Instead, under President Trump’s approach conflict resolution is the responsibility of the regional stakeholders with strong support from President Trump. It is a similar outlook conveyed to Europe about needing to be responsible for their own defense and security solutions while the USA role is supportive in nature.
In this approach the sharp tendrils of U.S. influence start to be untangled, and the national security focus returns to the USA domestically. Mutually beneficial national sovereignty replaces toxic and unending globalist intervention. This is a similar worldview that President Trump also takes toward trade agreements.
Multilateral trade agreements like the Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP) or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), or even the NAFTA/USMCA trade agreement are rejected in favor of direct bilateral free trade agreements with individual nations.
In Trump’s trade policy the multilateral deals are dissolved, while the bilateral deals are affirmed. The same outlook holds true for massive institutional agreements that end up with large entanglements often carrying disproportionate costs and disparate benefits. Like NATO, the USA usually ends up with the largest price tag and least benefit from the agreement.
Is NATO/Europe going to fight China over Taiwan? Of course not. If they were, Canada wouldn’t be making deals with Beijing, and Europe would not be allowing China to purchase stakeholder interests in the European car market. The same pragmatic and reasonable outlook applies right now toward how the EU has responded to the Russia/Ukraine conflict; only “willing” if the USA puts our blood and treasure on the line.
This nationalistic outlook is honestly encapsulated in this recent soundbite from President Trump when asked about Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney making a trade agreement with China. President Trump genuinely doesn’t care. WATCH:
Canada can make whatever deal they want with China; however, that doesn’t mean it will work out well for Canada when the USMCA is dissolved and a new bilateral trade deal between the USA and Canada is renegotiated. Factually, it means Canada will end up in a worse economic place, just look at the history of countries that hugged Big Panda. It is their own independent right to be blind to the risk.
Despite all the warnings from President Trump, Europe became dependent on Russia for low-cost energy; how’d that work out for them? Germany now seriously regrets their green energy approach, but there’s nothing President Trump can do to stop multinational assemblies from being collectively stupid; the only thing he can do is mitigate any collateral damage to the USA.
Instead of European leaders calling President Trump every time Turkish President Recep Erdogan does something against their interests, eventually the group will learn how to engage him individually. In a world of bilateral respect, the lessons from Trump could even have the downstream effect of training the EU to drop their obsession with Russia-bad everything.
The Ukraine conflict could end when Europe finally realizes it’s much easier to turn on a Nordstream gas valve than it is to rebuild 30 German nuclear power plants. President Trump’s refusal to commit U.S. troops to Zelenskyy’s security guarantee will hopefully hasten that conversation.
The same pragmatic realism applies to Greenland. Europe will never respond to any increase in strategic threat presented by China or Russia in the Arctic, and the U.S. will shoulder all the costs if that risk were to materialize. Strategic pragmatism combined with economic realism is why President Trump is focused on the security of the North American continent.
Lastly, there is a segment of MAGA that is angered by President Trump’s interim and necessary approach to removing our foreign policy entanglements in both the European and Mideast continents. Those who are short-sighted don’t see how President Trump is strategically and factually withdrawing U.S. policy from a world of enmeshed dependencies, because in reality charity –along with security– begins at home.
Thankfully, the former Lyndon LaRouche assembly from Promethean Action have begun to recalibrate their British-centric focus, and they’ve started to look at Trump policy beyond the ramifications to London and through the more accurate prism of Trump’s global pragmatism. President Donald Trump isn’t trying to unilaterally destroy British imperialism, not directly. Instead, that old, stuffy and elitist collapse is a consequence of reestablishing independent sovereignty.
Smile, live your very best life and watch it all unfold. After all, Davos is going to be a must-watch event next week.
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Letting Blair stick his globalist nose in isn’t optimal…
Worse, you know it’s bullshit
…He should not be there…
The Jews in Israel can be as unhappy as they please. The same with the Christians there!
Just as long as Ilhan Omar, Turkey, Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, ISIS, Mohammad and Allah are happy … … well … … that should be plenty good enough for all of r us.
Allah Be Praised !!!
bibi..is even more upset..there do not will another war with Iran….
Given your penchant for posting contrarian comments, you probably should have added a huge “sarc” tag to this one.
No way that Trump didn’t infor/coordinate this with Israel weeks ago.
and you know this….how?
Why? Israel is not as loyal an ally as traitors in Congress are obsessed with.
Ther3 will be no lasting peace as long as Turkey and/or Qatar is part of the equation. Gaza will just be rebuilt as a base from which to attack Israel. You may just as well include China and Russia to arbitrate the Greenland issue.
Why has PDJT not stopped Qatar from funding the Islamization of the West including their funding of subversion in American Universities? It seems to be the rather large elephant in the room.
I have been waiting (impatiently) for months for someone to raise the issue or put the question to Trump or anyone in his administration but nobody has done so – not Sundance, not Levin or Bannon or any of the grifters who like to boast about their access to the President even though they report on the very funding described above.
Also, I fail to see anything positive about the inclusion of Qatar or Turkey in the peacekeeping/rebuilding effort for Gaza from the perspective of any entity desirous of peace in the region.
Somebody, anybody – please enlighten me on that one.
CanaCon I will do my best.
To negotiate with a group they must relate and trust you. so you bring in people you have relationships with that can help you get it done. The palastinian peoples have been under the boot for many years, There response as with any outgunned group is unconventional warfare, propaganda and terrorism. the smack them down ten times harder then they smack you was not working
Trump removed their funding, Qatar, Iran and USAID. Survival requires they negotiate. There safety and success demands disarmament and a no nonsense policeing and protection force. that will be the job of now long time allie Egypt bankrolled by Qatar. Turkey has agreed to bring in the horns of the most violent of the Muslim Brotherhood factions as a peace offering to Sissi
The blood and guts ends for a while in hopes that a generation of peace may change the underlying dynamics that have been manipulated for the last 80 years to create human suffering and feed the war pigs.
Turkey, bringing in the horns like they did at the Hagia Sophia.
Might be a good time for anyone to actually read the book of Ezekiel and see who is aligning with whom.
The so-called Palestinians are nothing more than Arab intruders into the land of Israel. They’re not under anybody’s boot. They have more freedom in Israel than they have anywhere in their own countries and not only that Gael was completely independent of Israel or didn’t you didn’t you know are you so out of touch that you imagine the Israeli’s had Gaza under their boot?
What a clown show, to fall for this Arab propaganda.
The Arabs are problems in every single country. The problem is Islam, which is a militant ideology, not a religion.
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I don’t know if they are Arabs. If they were they would have glommed onto Arabia and gotten a free house.
Trust me i am not a supporter of the “Palestian Cause”. That said you have to be naive to not see that the Palestians are.constantly under attempts.to control them.
Again do not misinterpret my position, there loudest and most violent leaders have brought this on them. Terrorist attacks rightfully yield military response which feed the propagandists. What is being attempted is an attempt to return hope to both sides acknowledging both sides.
Point of fact not all palestines are Arabs. The Coptic Christian population in jerusalem was.quite large and vibrant when Israel was officially laid.out at.the end of ww2. Most resettled in Jordan and are still there
The so-called ‘Palestinians’ are Arab intruders in the land of Israel. They’re not under anybody’s boot. They have more freedom in Israel than they have anywhere in their own countries and not only that, Gaza was completely independent of Israel! Or didn’t you know? are you so out of touch that you imagine the Israelis had Gaza under their boot?
What a clown show, to fall for this Arab propaganda.
The Arabs are problems in every single country and the scourge of the earth. .The problem is Islam, which is a militant ideology, not a religion.
just to be clear, there are many good Arabs, but they are bad Muslims if they don’t adhere to the tenets of the Koran, which demand that all infidels be either converted or put to the sword.
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You lost me at the Palestinians under the boot. Please read this very carefully.
Watch: Israeli children sing, “We will annihilate everyone” in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
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Personally I think using bad behavior of one to excuse or justify the bad behavior of another looks somewhat foolish when one sides violence towards the other is so well documented over the past ” several” decades. Be happy,stay safe.
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If the palastinian peoples have been under the boot for many years, then it has been under the boot of Hamas.
Some two million Palestinians live in Israel and enjoy prosperity and full equal rights there.
The clandestine
CIA with its unlimited budgetis in charge of American politics and American foreign policy as well, and the CIA hired tens of thousands of Nazis after World War II and is a very antisemitic organization that would like to see the destruction of Israel to make way for the New World Order and the Islamization (=subjugation, enslavement) of us all.
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Remember that part in the Bible where it says they holler, Peace, Peace, and certain destruction comes?
Wrong post
New Discourses just began a podcast about Sayyid Qutb, a founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Here is an article about Erdogan’s advisor promoting Qutb’s thinking:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/81350/Erdo%C4%9Fan-s-adviser-Aktay-releases-book-highlighting-MB-s-Qutb
floraofsolomon
I recently listened to that New Discourses podcast.
Very interesting.
I’m not sure if Qutb was the founder of the MB, rather I think his book Milestones formed the intellectual underpinnings for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Very interesting was the fact that Qutb’s book was so strongly influenced by Leninist Communism.
This must have something to do with why there often seems to be collaboration between leftists and Islamists.
I went to a few sites to look him and his book up to prepare for future episodes, am still looking into his background and timing of involvement with MB. MB apparently is a few decades older than his major books.
Should be another interesting series.
From the Counter Extremism Project website: “Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author and the lead theologian of the Muslim Brotherhood. His extremist theories have helped inform the tenets of an ideological movement often referred to by analysts as Qutbism. Born in Asyut Governorate, Egypt, in 1906, Qutb was executed by hanging in 1966. His writings—particularly Milestones and In the Shade of the Quran—are believed to have inspired the leaders of future Islamist terror groups, including al-Qaeda founders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.”
Have a great night!
Did Trump win elections in Israel and Venezuela running 3 countries and looking at Iran next?
Nope,only the one that counts……mine. This is what a clean up in isle 5 looks like sport. This is what leadership looks like, though I get your confusion since it’s been so long since you witnessed it.
I’m frighteningly provincial to the point where I care more about my state than any other state. And I care about the U.S. more than any other country. But President Trump’s actions make sense to me, sometimes only after reading Sundance. I see how untangling ourselves from the Middle East (Gary – clean up on isle 5) and from the EU is going to work as the President is successful. More peace in the world and stronger at home seems to be the goal.
From the Artic to Tierra del Fuego, it’s all the Americas. MAGA!
Turkey, Qatar and Hamas are all Muslim Brotherhood – same ideology. Qatar and Turkey would love to preserve Hamas so they can’t be on the ground in Gaza.
The Saudis and UAE will not give a penny so long as Hamas is still ruling Gaza. Hamas is having about a half of the land and all the people.
Nobody is going to disarm Hamas. Nobody want and nobody cares. It’s going to be done by the IDF. Trump knows it too.
There is no reconstruction of Gaza with Hamas ruling.
Israel did all of the fighting and dying that brought Hamas to the table, but then Israel was kept out of the process after that. I don’t see this ending well.
Tony Blair? Is this a “Keep your friends close, but …” strategy?
Most Americans probably realise that Tony Blair is/was our version of O’Bama.
No other point need be made except
1/ I was stupid enough to vote for him before I grew up at the age of 55.
2/ He waited until he retired to convert to Catholicism – his wife’s faith.
3/ His sister in law became a “devout” moose lime about the same time.
4/ He was groomed by the Club of Rome/ Bilderberg Group//Davos Mob/masons before grooming became mainstream.
Sorry President Trump another blind egg being hatched there.
Good one #4 resonates Hakim Jeffries is from similar Cults. Half our congress is from those same cults the other half the corps. Have them bought and paid for.
However pragmatic the Trump plan may be, it is still not going to change the fact that the reason for Hamas’ existence is solely for the destruction of Israel, and Turkey and Qatar support this. How this dynamic plays out in reality remains to be seen. But Hamas, Qatar and Turkey will continue to work to achieve the aims of the Muslim Brotherhood and Israel’s destruction. Netanyahu understands this.
I can intellectually understand the need for ‘strong’ support in the Gaza endeavor, needing Turkey and Qatar to be involved. This will highlight any pro Muslim intentions on their part, with regard to stabilizing the region. I can also understand Israel’s disappointment in these selections. However, it is also interesting to note influential countries in the region that were not selected….namely Saudi Arabia.
The sooner we can disentangle from the mess in the middle east, the sooner we can more fully engage the mess inside our own borders.
Watch the chess board closely. These are the weeks where decades happen
I hope this works, for all involved. I don’t see how it can, but I’m not Trump. The hatred Muslims have for Jews goes way back. But, I do pray, that the “secularists” (those who are more about stability and financials in the mideast), can be effective. Just my two cents.
Mostly agree with your sentiments. I look at it as–Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t, but nothing in the past has worked so why not give it a go!
Sun is dancing so brilliantly in this world of growing gray? You always have a way of making the unknown easier to see and appreciate. You, Sundance, shine like a beacon for us all.
One of these things is not like the others / One of these things just doesn’t belong…
Looking at you, Tony Blair. Seriously, what is that teabag doing in the context of Gaza? Maybe he’s there to give the Gazans a different western “satan” to focus on and hate. Get their minds off the US.
If in Bebe’s shoes, I wouldn’t be happy either. Imagine, giving two Islamic countries who’s mandate by their false god allah to kill all Jews and Christians that kind of control.
It all changes two generations after the Palestinians place Israel on the map in their school books, till then nothing changes.
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Mr. President, crush it all.
All of it was nothing more than an elaborate bank heist on the American taxpayer.
RAV this morning is claiming PDJT has invited Putin to the board.
As if we didn’t have enough splodey heads everywhere.
And the games continue… I look forward to the dust-settle.
That would be brilliant but unlikely.
There are a lot of Russian citizens living in Israel…
Getting cheap energy from Russia was a smart move. But politically, the west has always been hugely uncomfortable with any sort of alliance between Germany and Russia. That was the reason that both NATO membership for Russia was refused, and the energy relationship between Russia and Germany was destroyed.
This macro view you share with us is not accomplished quickly, but it is liberating for all peoples, leading to potential prosperities.
This approach is based on God’s fundamental principles of acknowledging sovereignties of nations that – btw – God does create for different people groups.
Tearing down the globalist order and allowing other nations to see that Americans are not the monsters our previous administrations portrayed us as being is very good for the long term.
I continue to rejoice and smile as I watch the Hand of God move through this President to destroy the globalist iteration of the Tower of Babel.
Thank you Father God.
The Zionists currently in power in Israel aren’t happy because 47’s Board of Peace and its composition totally upend the Zionist plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Christians and Muslims by driving out those that are left, absorb all of Gaza into Israel, and then “settle” it.
Neighboring countries caught on to this scheme long ago when “Palestinians” were driven into refugee camps in their countries. It’s not that those countries hated the Palestinians. They just didn’t appreciate being forced to become involuntary accomplices to the Zionists’ ethnic cleansing operations.
It is essential to distinguish between Zionists, and Israelis and Jews generally. It is the Zionists, both Jewish AND Christian, who immediately label as “anti-Semitic” or “anti-Israel” anyone who disagrees in the slightest with either their agendas or their methods. They are wolves wearing sheepskins who scream “anti-sheep” at anyone who objects to their murder of the goats.
Trapper,
I agree!
This book 📕 is worth reading.
When there is documentary evidence…that always gets my support!
It is also available on Amazon.
JFK and RFK’s Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence by Ken McCarthy | Goodreads
The book begins with mentioning the letter and op- ed Albert Einstein wrote.
References the Deir Yassin massacre, which most historians believe was
the starting point of the Nakba.
It has Timelines of events and what obstacles JFK and RFK were facing,
their efforts to find a political peaceful resolution.
This debacle has been going on for far too long.
“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend
in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before
Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
Father John Sheehan
Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420) please pray for and protect the remaining original Christians in the Holy Land and the Levant +++
Don’t worry they’ll get over it!
Just curious. If it’s okay for Canada to make trade deals with China, why is Venezuela forbidden to trade with Russia or China? Canada is on our border and Venezuela is in South America for goodness sake. Doesn’t pass the simple smell test.
Tony Blair? I trust Putin more.
actually I was thinking Putin should be on one of the panels.
I trust the first 100 people listed in the Boston phonebook more than Blair.
Sorry but Bibi not being happy does not factor into this as far as I’m concerned…..and as far as we should be concerned.
Trump is so much smarter than the “experts” think he is, if sundance is right about this.
I don’t watch Judging Freedom any longer, I got tired of the “experts” telling me how dumb Trump is.
Israel’s not happy? Who asked?
Trump has done some really amazing stuff just this last year so stand well back and give him some elbow room
The sign of a good negotiated settlement is that neither party is 100% satisfied.
For those of you in Rio Linda, here’s the real elephant in the room: Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews, is a Zionist extremist. There, I said it, it seemed like someone needed to. The fact that the majority of Jews don’t understand that yet has always been irrelevant, one way or the other. We’ve been left with a detailed description of how this will all wind up. IYKYK.
Prime example of failing upwards.
Dude Trump is a mastermind, you gotta hand it to him. Not only is he preserving his legacy after 2028, he also has established a board that actually puts checks on Israel – quite possibly the first time that’s ever happened.
I hope Netanyahu is mad, that means we can start seeing some fairness over there.
When nothing in the past worked why not try something new?
I will say it again: As a Christian, I support Israel according to God’s command.
That does not mean I support lay governments such as Bibi’s and more than my support for America was an approved Obummer or Brandon.
ANY more than….
They have not released the last dead hostage. Good luck with all that!
Turkey and Qatar??? SERIOUSLY??? Never mind the likes of Tony Blair.
Sorry, Sundance, this is a CF waiting to happen.
How to trick the Dems into siding with Israel in one easy step.
The words “live your best life.” Simple, yet profound, heed them, take them to heart. Importantly, share them, especially in times such as these.
So much for all those people who said Trump was a puppet of Netanyahu.
Trump isn’t running for re-election. He’s looking at the 3 years left and trying to reorder the entire world governance knowing all along that the US economy will hum and produce and that will win MAGA/GOP elections. This is his one shot, 3 years to reshape the globe, and he’s taking it. So I won’t criticize the lack of attention on the domestic agenda. The attention is there as well through DHS, Dept Treasury, DOJ (Hameet), Dept Energy and Dept Education.
Turkey is still mad they can’t engage in the mass white slavery operation they had when they were the Ottoman Empire. Read about that sometime and let it sink in. The West should never forget what Turkey actually is, what they aspire to, and what they will do with power.
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