{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "bskyPostRef": {
    "cid": "bafyreie33exekzkkjm2tdbqluzqy7mvrwymq35tgo33zfqv5jprkvk3uam",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:qefo6jhzy4lvocnzakfk7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj65l4hcbid2"
  },
  "coverImage": {
    "$type": "blob",
    "ref": {
      "$link": "bafkreiaknu6zid5wfc3zngt2d2kn5siqm45llbg7x6yysggfb7vbsg5moi"
    },
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "size": 140908
  },
  "path": "/post/208960/donald-trump-board-peace-gaza-money",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-10T18:54:35.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "Republican Party",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Board of Peace",
    "Middle East",
    "Gaza",
    "Palestine",
    "Israel",
    "Money in Politics",
    "Money",
    "Reuters",
    "envisioned",
    "siphoned from State Department funds",
    "20-point peace plan",
    "charter"
  ],
  "textContent": "Enthusiasm to actually fund the Gaza redevelopment proposal is waning.\n\nThe Board of Peace, a pet project cooked up by Donald Trump late last year, has received just a tiny part of the total $17 billion pledged to the charter by various countries, reported Reuters Friday.\n\nTen countries promised to cumulatively throw billions of dollars at the post-war remodel, which Trump has envisioned as a sprawling seaside playground similar to Dubai. Some of the nations that pledged their funds for the reconstruction effort—and the prerequisite peace plan—include Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey.\n\nBut practically none of them has actually put their money where their mouth is.\n\nA person with direct knowledge of the peace board’s operations told Reuters that just three countries have donated to the board’s operations thus far: the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and the U.S. itself. Together, their funds amounted to less than $1 billion.\n\nThe person added that the Iran war has “affected everything” and thwarted rehabilitation efforts for the devastated region.\n\nThe board was already off to a rocky start in February, when dozens of countries convened for the project’s inaugural meeting. Trump, however, had a difficult time pronouncing his peers’ foreign names. Last month, Semafor reported that $1.2 billion of Trump’s own pledged cash for the board was actually siphoned from State Department funds, effectively forcing the American taxpayers to pay for the enormous Trumpian construction plan. At the time, Trump said he would defer $10 billion to the Gaza scheme.\n\nCountries interested in being permanent members on the board are required to pay $1 billion for their spot.\n\nTrump initially floated his “Board of Peace” idea back in September as part of a 20-point peace plan to control Gaza, promising to include major heads of state as well as former world leaders, such as former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.\n\nBut the board’s charter makes little mention of Gaza. Instead, its goals appear to be as lofty as they are broad, seeking to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.”\n\nThe concept came under renewed scrutiny in January as Trump aggressed Greenland and NATO. The U.S. president has also invited leaders of nations with terrible track records on human rights, such as Russia and Saudi Arabia, to join the board.\n\nLongtime U.S. allies warned that the “Board of Peace” could upend the current world order, with several refusing to join the board at all, including France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Slovenia.",
  "title": "Trump’s Board of Peace Is Already a Mess"
}