On January 16, U.S. president Donald Trump announced with imperial arrogance a “Board of Peace,” naming himself as its chairman, to oversee the governance of Gaza. This board is composed primarily of top U.S. diplomats, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “Trump’s announcement of the official creation of the Gaza Board of Peace is not merely a new diplomatic initiative,” Israeli Palestinian journalist Jack Khoury points out in the article published here. “It is a declaration with far deeper meaning: the restoration of an international — and above all American — protectorate over the Palestinian people.”