The American president, in his new and additional function as chairman of a so-called Board of Peace, last week hosted the leaders of some two dozen countries whom he has invited to join as members. The venue was yet another institution he recently renamed after himself: the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
The ostensible purpose of this inaugural meeting is laudable: the pacification and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. The board’s origins lie in Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza.
