Trump Moves to Activate Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ and Install Technocratic Government

Great-power attempts to impose outside governance in Gaza echo Britain’s 1922 League of Nations Mandate and the short-lived 2005 EU Rafah Monitoring Mission—both schemes collapsed once the local balance of force shifted. Today’s plan fits a century-long pattern: external trusteeships seek to separate Palestinian day-to-day administration from militant power but rarely disarm the dominant faction. The Board-of-Peace model also revives the 1994 Oslo logic of ‘technocrats first, sovereignty later’, yet it arrives after Hamas has survived two years of total war and still retains its weapons. If implemented, the arrangement would test whether international custodianship can outlast a well-entrenched armed movement; success could reopen debates on confederal solutions, while failure may cement a 100-year trend in which external governance experiments—from the Mandate, to the PLO’s 1982 Tunis exile, to the 2007 Gaza takeover—end by reinforcing, not eroding, the power of local militias.