Hillary Clinton Endorses Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza [View all]

Why would the former Democratic presidential nominee endorse one of Trump’s more grotesque ventures?

https://prospect.org/2026/06/30/hillary-clinton-trump-board-of-peace-gaza/


President Donald Trump, center, with Vice President JD Vance to his left, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to his right, arrives for a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, February 19, 2026, in Washington. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo

On Saturday, The Guardian published a leaked draft memo that would give Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” and its contractors in Gaza blanket legal immunity from any charges of wrongdoing. The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge.” This is only the latest example of the crass power grab in Trump’s Gaza peace plan, which U.S. representatives strong-armed the U.N. Security Council into endorsing back in November 2025.

Meanwhile, on June 18, Hillary Rodham Clinton published an absolutely bizarre op-ed piece in the Financial Times endorsing Trump’s Board of Peace and its grand plans for Gaza. The op-ed was titled “The World May Not Like Trump’s Gaza Plan—but There Is No Alternative.” Neither article has gotten much attention in U.S. media.

Clinton wrote, “There is no alternative framework waiting in the wings. No rival coalition is quietly preparing a more viable proposal. The 20-point plan is not the one many of us would have drafted, but it remains the only framework backed by sufficient leverage, political engagement and potential resources to move the parties towards implementation.” Say what? This is total malarkey. There had better be alternatives.

Trump’s Gaza design, a real estate grab masquerading as a peace plan and economic reconstruction, can move forward only in the context of total Israeli domination of Gaza and victory over Hamas and Hezbollah, goals that look less likely by the day. The Board of Peace epitomizes Trump’s corrupt conflation of his family financial interests with U.S. foreign policy.

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