Two days after Witkoff’s announcement of Phase Two of the “Peace Plan”, the White House issued a statement that carefully sought to put the main focus on “the formation of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG)”, the formal name for the Palestinian Technocratic Committee, consisting of 15 Palestinian technocrats under the leadership of Dr. Ali Shaath, a civil engineer, born in Khan Younis in Gaza, but now based in the West Bank, who was formerly the Deputy Minister of Transportation of the Palestinian Authority. While all of this is positive news, the most glaring problem with all of the Palestinians’ aspirations is that whatever power and authority the committee will have is entirely subservient to not one, but two layers of neo-colonial governance, dominated, in the top tier, the “Board of Peace”, by Americans, and in the second, the “Gaza Executive Board”, by a mixture of Americans and representatives of the various Middle Eastern countries involved in the long negotiations for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The chair of the “Board of Peace” is Donald Trump, described as “asserting direct political authority over Gaza’s post-war framework while framing the project as a US-led peace, reconstruction, and demilitarization initiative”, while the other seven members of the Executive Board are the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Marc Rowan, the US billionaire CEO of Apollo Global Management, Ajay Banga, the Indian-American President of the World Bank and Robert Gabriel Jr., the US Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to the President for Policy.
Author: Andy Worthington
Published at: 2026-01-27 23:00:08
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