The photographs have been taken, the hands have been shaken. A 75-year-old red line has just been erased in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, the inaugural meeting of the “Gaza Board of Peace” (BoP) concluded. President Donald Trump was generous with his praise, calling PM Shehbaz Sharif a key partner. Sharif returned the favor, hailing Trump as a “man of peace.”
But cut through the diplomatic smiles and the PR machinery, and you are left with a horrifying reality: For the first time in history, a Pakistani ruler openly attended a formalized meeting that includes Israeli officials. There was no Palestinian representative at this table. It was the US, Israel, and a handful of Muslim nations signing away the future of Gaza.
Here is the unfiltered breakdown of what Pakistan just legitimized. Why this summit is a dark stain on our diplomatic history.
1. The $17 Billion Payoff – Gaza Board of Peace
The headline of the summit was money. Trump announced that the Board members have pooled a $7 Billion aid package. While the US will independently contribute $10 Billion for the “reconstruction” of Gaza.
- The Reality: This isn’t charity; it is hush money.
- The Catch: This funding is heavily conditional. The money will only flow into the “Green Zones” (the South). By accepting this framework, Pakistan and other nations are quietly turning a blind eye to the “Devil’s Plan”—the complete and permanent Israeli military annexation of North Gaza. We are effectively being paid to look the other way while the map is redrawn.
2. Pakistan’s “Red Line” is a Smokescreen
The government is desperately trying to control the narrative back home to avoid public backlash. Yesterday, the Foreign Office stated that while Pakistan is willing to be part of an International Stabilization Force, we will NOT participate in any “disarming or demilitarization mandates.”
- What it Means: The government wants applause for refusing to do the IDF’s dirty work of raiding Palestinian homes for weapons.
- The Hypocrisy: Refusing to disarm resistance fighters is the absolute bare minimum. The actual outrage is that our leadership is sitting at a boardroom table with the very occupiers dropping the bombs. You cannot claim to stand with Palestine while collaborating in a US-Israeli oversight committee that the PLO has explicitly boycotted.
3. The Two-State Lip Service
PM Shehbaz Sharif used his address to reiterate that peace is impossible without a sovereign Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders.
It was an empty speech designed purely for local television screens in Pakistan. Delivering a generic pro-Palestine monologue while actively participating in a forum that normalizes an Israeli presence without Palestinian consent is diplomatic theater at its worst.
Verdict
Pakistan did not play a “smart diplomatic hand” in Washington. We walked into a trap. By taking a seat at the Board of Peace, Islamabad has legitimized a post-war architecture dictated by Israel and the US. We crossed a line we can never uncross, trading our historical moral high ground for a seat at a fundamentally compromised table.
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