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The extract below is from the Sunday Telegraph.  Similar articles are on Huffington Post, Reuters, CNBC among others.  All behind paywalls.Trump ‘wants nations to pay $1bn to join his Gaza peace board’US president’s plan for the strip angers Netanyahu while report suggests White House may be seeking to usurp UN"Donald Trump is asking countries that want a spot on his new “Board of Peace” for Gaza to pay $1 billion (£747 million) which he will control, according to a report.A draft charter for the proposed group, which will oversee the rebuilding of the strip, establishes Mr Trump as the inaugural chairman who would have a veto over new members, Bloomberg reported.According to the document, states would be restricted to a three-year term of membership unless they “contribute more than USD $1,000,000,000 in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first year of the Charter’s entry into force”.The White House has started to unveil administrators who will supervise Gaza as part of the second phase of the US president’s peace deal.They include Sir Tony Blair, Steve Witkoff, the White House envoy, and Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law.An “Executive Board” will oversee the postwar management of the enclave for the Board of Peace, and will include other world leaders who are expected to be announced at Davos next week.The charter for the group, which on Saturday was sent to dozens of heads of state with an invitation to join the board, suggests that Mr Trump is trying to set up an organisation to rival the United Nations....."https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/17/trumps-gaza-peace-board-angers-netanyahu/

Ivonne Holliday ● 1d1 Comments

"Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him"Sidney Blumenthal"While Trump strides across the stage posing as a world conqueror, the Quinnipiac poll shows him to be an incredible shrinking man – 57% opposed to “running” Venezuela; 73% opposed to sending troops there; 55% opposed to taking over its oil sales; 86% opposed to militarily seizing Greenland; 55% opposed to buying it; and 70% against military action against Iran. According to the AP-NORC poll, 61% disapprove of his foreign policy in general. The Reuters-Ipsos poll showed only 17% in favor of Trump acquiring Greenland and 4% in favor of military force.""Trump claims to stand above any and all restraints: “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” ... He is the Superman, the Ubermensch.Trump’s brief words to frame his philosophy were better explained by Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil, published in 1889, which later became an ur-text against the “slave-faith” of the Enlightenment and for Naziism and the cult of personality. Nietzsche contrasted the superior “master morality” with the “slave morality”. The “noble” and “aristocratic” master “does not require to be approved of; he passes the judgment: what is injurious to me is injurious in itself; he knows that it is he himself only who confers honor on things; he is a creator of values. He honors whatever he recognizes in himself: such morality equals self-glorification.”"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/17/americans-on-trump-foreign-policy

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