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Putin invited to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace,’ Kremlin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to join the U.S.′ “Board of Peace” for Gaza, the Kremlin said Monday.Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would study the details of the proposal to join the peace council created by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year. The “Board of Peace” is seen as a vehicle for maintaining a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza after their protracted conflict.
“President Putin has indeed received an offer through diplomatic channels to join this Board of Peace. We are currently studying all the details of this proposal,” Peskov told Russian state news agency TASS.
“We hope to contact the U.S. side to clarify all the details,” he added.
Putin invited to join Trump's 'Board of Peace,' Kremlin says
The "Board of Peace" has been created by U.S. President Donald Trump to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.
The incongruity of a war criminal responsible for horrific acts against humanity being asked to sit on any board among civilized nations, much less one with this name, is visceral. Though there's a kind of symmetry to the board being created by a war criminal to address issues surrounding the fate of a place where war crimes were committed.