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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Explaining Trump’s “Board of Peace”

I have been seeing far too many misinterpretations and too many accusations resulting from those misinterpretations of the Trump Board of Peace.
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However, it has now been expanded into a new concept, so this is an explanation.

1. The Board of Peace idea started with Gaza as a way of getting international support for ending Hamas and rebuilding the mess that Gaza has become, and
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as a plan to create a framework for negotiating peace worldwide.

2. Members have been by invitation. Members will have seats for three years (renewable), with members contributing $1 billion not having their terms expire.
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3. This board really comes from the fact that the United Nations has been a failure at doing what it was created to do. The objections to the Board of Peace among many European nations, and especially among third-world and Muslim nations,
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have been because they fear that it will replace the United Nations organizations and, perhaps more to the point, end U.S. support for the UN, which today is 25% of its regular budget and almost 100% of most of its affiliated agencies.
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In fact, President Trump has already canceled funding for many of those agencies.

4. To correct misinformation: The Board of Peace will have no influence on how Gaza is developed.
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It is not an attempt to undermine Israel, as it cannot, and it will give no special access to Gaza to any other nation.

So, that is it."
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Addendum: Roger answered some questions re the Trump's Board of Peace
A. First, the $1 Million is a donation for non-renewable membership. I doubt either Turkey or Qatar will pay it, certainly not Turkey which has severe economic problems at home...
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but the focus of the Peace Board is not Gaza anymore and membership has nothing to do with being involved in Gaza or any other areas of conflict anymore.

In any case, Trump's 20 point plan includes two things that are not talked about by the media that prefers drama.
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First,that everything in Gaza is contingent on disarming and ending Hamas. As Hamas has not complied, and as Hamas is still in Judea and Samaria, that ends that. And secondly, Israel has a veto over what nations can participate in Gaza.
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B. Members invited will be invited for a term of one year renewable. If a member wants to join without the need to ask for renewal, the fee is $1 Billion. The objective is to use the funds so the US does not have to subsidize activities like it has done for 80 years...
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with the UN, for meetings sending people to make peace where there are conflicts, (such as India-Pakistan, Miyamar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, and so many more). Years ago, back in the 90's, Trump appeared on TV saying that he believed the UN needs to be replaced with...
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something real that can make peace and not be an intrusive bureaucracy, and two weeks ago, he withdrew US money from 77 UN agencies.

C. All people need to do is listen to what Trump says and read the documents, and not the media analyses that tend to want drama and
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political attacks over fact. Trump has said (1) Nothing will happen without Israeli approval, (2) That the best solution ultimately is to move the Arabs out of Gaza to the places they came from.
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D. It is an experiment. Getting Nation-states to commit to peace finding rather than games and pandering at the UN. It is really to be a free ranging idea forum to develop ideas outside politics.
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D. It is an experiment. Getting Nation-states to commit to peace finding rather than games and pandering at the UN. It is really to be a free-ranging, idea forum to develop ideas outside politics.
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E. This is an attempt to get countries to commit to an effort to help stop conflicts and to use their influence to do so. It is really nothing more than that.
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I suppose, at most, it may influence domestic opinion in these countries to look for constructive behavior rather than excuses.

F. This is proposed to be limited to one job -- finding ways to negotiate peace where there is a conflict, and to prevent conflict by negotiation.
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Unlike the UN, no giant expensive bureaucracy, no major real estate, and no 75 agencies all at US expense.

G. We have 80 years of diplomacy -- and what was accomplished? There are more wars today, more terrorism today than any time since WWII and
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a UN that has become an expensive job corp for the relatives of political leaders' worldwide that panders to Muslim violence, refuses to condemn terrorism, and has countries such as Libya and Iran heading committees on human rights.
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And we have 80 years of the USA subsidizing Europe, acting as their policeman when they have interests threatened, paying 75% plus of their defense while they have refused to pay their share, and
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allowing Europe to levy massive tariffs on the USA while paying almost none to the US. Diplomacy? The USA is ridiculed worldwide on that, and any Americans who have lived outside the US know it. Trump is trying to reset things.
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