US president Donald Trump will head a so-called board of peace that will supervise an international stabilisation force in Gaza. It puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”, which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years. The board will report to the security council but will not be subordinate to the UN, or subject to past UN resolutions. It will supervise an international stabilisation force (ISF), whose membership is also undetermined, but which the US wants to deploy by January. The countries who the US has approached – including Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – are tentative.
