The Board of Peace: the new UN or Trump's vanity project?

和平委员会:新联合国还是特朗普的虚荣工程?

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2026-02-19

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The Board of Peace began with the grand ambition of reconstructing Gaza and securing a lasting end to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. But with Donald Trump as chairman for life, its ambitions have grown: it wants to become a wider international peacekeeping organisation. As members meet for the first time in Washington DC, will their lofty ambitions translate into action on the ground? Or is it all just a vanity project? This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory Guest: Gabrielle Weiniger, Israel correspondent, The Times. Host: Manveen Rana. Producer: Harry Stott, Olivia Case. We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com Read more: Tony Blair to attend Trump’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting Further listening: Trump's Greenland play and the future of transatlantic relations Clips: OneIndia News / Youtube, AP / Youtube, CTV, BBC, Channel 4, ABC News. Photo: Getty Images. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story.

  • I'm Manvin Rana.

  • This is a board like no other.

  • There will never be a board like the board that we're going to be announcing.

  • Everybody wants to be on the board.

  • Created to oversee the Gaza peace process,

  • Donald Trump's Board of Peace has become something very different.

  • It's become an obsession.

  • I think it's something like nobody's ever even imagined.

  • So it's called the board of peace and watch for it because it's going to do some fantastic things.

  • It's an attempt to redraw diplomatic norms.

  • We can do other things.

  • We can do numerous other things.

  • Once this board is completely formed,

  • we can do pretty much whatever we want to do and we'll do it in conjunction with the United Nations.

  • The board has attracted a motley crew of world leaders.

  • The controversial president of Belarus, the Saudis, Viktor Orban,

  • the prime minister of Hungary, but no UK, no France, no Germany.

  • And what's more,

  • the board that's meant to be determining the future of Gaza has a representative from Israel.