A draft charter sent to about 60 countries by the U.S. administration calls for members to contribute $1 billion in cash if they want their membership to last more than three years, according to the document seen by Reuters.
“Each Member State shall serve a term of no more than three years from this Charter’s entry into force, subject to renewal by the Chairman,” the document, first reported by Bloomberg News, shows.
“The three-year membership term shall not apply to Member States that contribute more than USD $1,000,000,000 in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first year of the Charter’s entry into force.”
With the higher-level Board of Peace comprising three US property speculators out of seven members, the question is how several billion dollars in income will be spent if not to redevelop Gaza to the detriment of the two million-plus survivors of Israel’s two-year onslaught.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has convened his top advisers to discuss Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza, after it emerged that the US did not coordinate with Israel on its creation. Netanyahu’s office said the initiative “runs contrary to its policy” following the announcement of a Gaza Executive Board that includes the Turkish foreign minister, a Qatari official, former UK prime minister Tony Blair, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The Board of Peace, part of Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Israel–Hamas war, is expected to temporarily oversee Gaza and its reconstruction through two newly unveiled senior bodies: a founding Executive Board focused on diplomacy and investment, and a Gaza Executive Board supervising on-the-ground administration via the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.
Three recent victims of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza
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