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Trump convenes first meeting of 'Board of Peace' · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has held its
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  Speaker 1: first meeting in Washington, d C. With members pledging a
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  Speaker 1: multi billion aid package to rebuild Gaza. Representatives from more
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  Speaker 1: than forty countries attended the meeting, one month after the
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  Speaker 1: group was officially launched. Trump said members have agreed to
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  Speaker 1: pledge seven billion dollars for a Gaza relief package, a
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  Speaker 1: fraction only of the estimated seventy billion needed to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: the territory. Trump also announced that five countries have agreed
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  Speaker 1: to deploy troops to the territory as part of an
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  Speaker 1: international stabilization force. Several key US allies were absent from
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  Speaker 1: the talks, but Trump suggested more countries would soon join
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  Speaker 1: the Board.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's the most consequential board, certainly in terms
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  Speaker 2: of power and in terms of prestige. There's never been
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  Speaker 2: anything close. Because these are the greatest world leaders. Almost
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  Speaker 2: everybody's accepted, and the ones that haven't will be a
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  Speaker 2: little cute. It doesn't work. You can't play cute with me.
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  Speaker 2: But they're playing a little bit. But they're all joining everybody,
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  Speaker 2: most of them very immediately. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The Board of Peace was originally intended to oversee a
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire and reconstruction in Gaza, but its mandate has seemingly
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  Speaker 1: expanded since, and critics see Trump's new council as an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to undermine the United Nations.
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  Speaker 3: The inauguration of the Board of Peace in Davos, Switzerland,
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  Speaker 3: in late January, Donald Trump was not shy about its potential.
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  Speaker 2: This board is the chance to be one of the
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  Speaker 2: most consequential bodies ever created, and it's my enormous honor
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  Speaker 2: to serve as as chairman.
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  Speaker 4: It was very honored when they asked me to do it.
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  Speaker 3: The Board of Peace was originally supposed to be part
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  Speaker 3: of Phase two of Trump's Gaza peace plan, but now
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  Speaker 3: it's become a work in progress with an expanding mission.
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  Speaker 3: The draft charter now says the Board will sack conflicts
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  Speaker 3: the world over. There's a one billion dollar fee to
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  Speaker 3: become a permanent member. The US says sixty countries have
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  Speaker 3: been invited, an odd mix of world leaders Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister Benjamin metnyahou Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Russia's Vladimir Putin,
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  Speaker 3: and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, whose country is fighting a
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  Speaker 3: bloody war with Russia. Canada was invited, but Trump later
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  Speaker 3: took back the invitation. Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are joining.
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  Speaker 3: Several countries have already signaled they won't take part or
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  Speaker 3: have said flat out no, including traditional US allies France,
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  Speaker 3: Germany and the UK. Pope Leo has also declined and
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  Speaker 3: says he backs the United Nations to settle conflicts. Trump
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  Speaker 3: denies that the board is meant to replace the UN,
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  Speaker 3: but has complained about the UN's ineffectiveness in the past.
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  Speaker 2: I United Nations could do more. I wish we didn't
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  Speaker 2: need a Board of Peace, but.
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  Speaker 3: There are worries that the one billion dollar price tag
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  Speaker 3: means only rich countries can pay to play a club
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  Speaker 3: imposing piece as it wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier, I spoke to Yossi Meckelburg. He's a senior consulting
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  Speaker 1: fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program at
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  Speaker 1: Chatham House, and I asked him how much progress can
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  Speaker 1: really be made for lasting peace in Gaza without key
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  Speaker 1: players at the table, like, for example, the Palestinian.
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  Speaker 5: Authority become become a trend in a US film policy,
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  Speaker 5: and not to include Palestine. It happened in the Trump
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  Speaker 5: first administration when they announced the peace plan back then,
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  Speaker 5: and it was President and Prime Minister President I'm sorry
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  Speaker 5: and Prime Minister Nathania out there, but Palestine representative.
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  Speaker 4: And this is just a repeat of the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: You can't have peace unless all sides that engage in
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  Speaker 5: this conflict are there and resent and involved and engage,
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  Speaker 5: and this is not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: But we also need to think that the Board of Peace.
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  Speaker 5: Started as specifically dealing with with Gaza, with the easily
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  Speaker 5: Palestine conflict, and now it became some sort of a
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  Speaker 5: substitute for the United Nations without some of the major
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  Speaker 5: major powers there. So again it's all it's all out
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  Speaker 5: of the Trump's playbook, which we basically play day by day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the countries who have joined the so called Board
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  Speaker 1: of Peace, are they really interested in peace in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East or justin staying in Donald Trump's good graces.
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  Speaker 4: Probably more the latter than the earlier.
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  Speaker 5: And you see again when you add to the Board
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  Speaker 5: of Peace, for instance, people that that there is an
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  Speaker 5: ic C, a rest over the head. It's it's a
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  Speaker 5: bit bizarre and that's not going to to bring peace.
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  Speaker 5: I think, yes, Donald Thump should get credit together with
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  Speaker 5: his negotiators for bringing a cease fire. But again, since
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  Speaker 5: the seas fire, more than six hundred Palestines have been
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  Speaker 5: killed in Gaza. The situation is improved, but I think
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  Speaker 5: that with no sense of urgency, considering the magnitude of
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  Speaker 5: the humanitarian disaster there not doing. You know, Israel banned,
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  Speaker 5: for instance, thirty seven international non governmental organization the Deal
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  Speaker 5: with Aid in Gaza from operating there.
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  Speaker 4: UNRA was outlawed by Israel.
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  Speaker 5: In the future of it is bleak, So I think
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  Speaker 5: less photo opportunities, less ceremonies, less self congratulatory and more
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  Speaker 5: action on the ground that we'll see, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: permanency is fire, end of pocumation.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Hamas is not.
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  Speaker 5: Armed, and moving into the political sphere then into solving
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  Speaker 5: the Israel Palestinian conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe very briefly because we're almost going off air.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you expect those need to undermine the
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  Speaker 1: work of the UN.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is one of the aims of it,
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  Speaker 5: to present something alternative. The United States owe quite a
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  Speaker 5: bit of money to the UN. It's not going to
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  Speaker 5: pay probably some of the money we'll move there, and
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  Speaker 5: and presenting something which arrivals to the UN. But the
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  Speaker 5: chairman Trump is going to make all the decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Does Yosie Michaelberg of Chatham House. Always great to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks someone, thank you.