This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of President Trump’s latest political invention: the so-called Board of Peace. Yet a less prejudiced reading of history allows us to see Trump’s political design — whether in Gaza or beyond — not as an aberration, but as part of a familiar pattern. It requires no particular insight to conclude that Trump’s Board of Peace is not concerned with peace, nor genuinely with Gaza. The Board of Peace discards all of this in favor of a hollow, improvised structure tailored to satisfy Trump’s volatile ego and advance U.S.-Israeli political and geopolitical interests. Judging by this historical record, it is reasonable to conclude that the Board of Peace will eventually become yet another defunct body.