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Board of Peace, Machinery of War

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

We live in an attention economy, and it’s important to look at how ours is being squandered. Take Gaza: nothing screams caring for the people of Gaza like holding your meeting about their future in their holiest month, without them. And yet this is precisely the moment when Trump’s “Board of Peace” held its initial meeting. And it is precisely the moment when conscientious Americans must refuse to be distracted.

More than two million Palestinians, nearly all the residents of Gaza, are entering Ramadan for the third time, in tents, with starvation levels of food and water, missing loved-ones. According to a new study released by the Lancet medical journal, Israel’s assault caused far more violent deaths than previously reported — over 75,000 — more than half of them women, seniors and kids – in the 16 months after October 7, 2023, compared to 49,000 deaths previously reported by the Palestinian health ministry. 1

Hundreds more have died in Israeli assaults, with U.S. supplied weapons, since the leaders of those two countries declared a supposed ceasefire last October. 2

Now, while Palestinians continue to be bombed and starved, the president and his son-in-law are convening their........

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