It is commendable that President Donald Trump has appointed a Board of Peace to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza along with the disarmament of the remaining Hamas terrorists.
In doing so, Trump is like a one-man United Nations, doing the work in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world that the sad sack UN cannot or will not do.
Trump has not only ended multiple wars across the globe, but he has also ended fighting between countries that did not even know they were at war.
That’s a joke, of course, but you get the drift.
Last week Trump announced creation of the international board that will include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witcoff, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as members.
It will also include representatives from countries like Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Argentina and a host of other nations. Leaders from 60 nations have been invited. He talked about it at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Trump, of course, will be the chairman. And if peace prevails in Gaza, Trump could be in for a real Nobel Peace Prize instead of the secondhand one he was regifted by Maria Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader.
While he is working on this peace process in Gaza, Trump should also consider creating a Board of Peace for Minnesota, the “Land of Ten Thousand Fakes.”
It is there where feckless Democratic politicians with their reckless rhetoric, led by blowhard Gov. Tim Walz, are turning Minneapolis into a maelstrom.
In reason turned upside down and inside out, Minnesota Democratic politicians are opposing ICE’s attempt to rid the state of illegal immigrants wanted for murder, rape, robbery, child sexual abuse, drug smuggling and so on.
It is not so much that Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are in favor of harboring criminal illegal immigrants, it is just that they hate Trump.
There was hardly a peep from Democrats when their beloved Barack Obama did the same thing when he was president.
But Obama, of course, had a kinder, gentler approach when it came to deporting illegal immigrants. Trump, by comparison, is a bull in a china shop.
Both Walz and Frey are now under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly impeding ICE through their shrill and fiery rhetoric which has led to rioting following the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
There is also the belief that they are seeking to divert attention from investigations into the state’s rampant fraud and abuse of federal welfare programs that are estimated to be in billions of dollars.
While ICE has operated in Massachusetts in the face of opposition from Gov. Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, it has yet to meet organized rioting — at least not yet.
But that is no thanks to the aggressive rhetoric coming from the three leaders.
Wu, mayor of a sanctuary city, said Boston is preparing for an ICE showdown. “The federal government is basically at war against peaceful American cities. This is not new over the last year, but the escalation continues to be alarming at every step.”
Campbell, the state’s “chief law enforcement officer,” told the State House News Service that, without any proof, the killing of Good by the ICE agent “could be murder.”
Of the Trump administration, Campbell said, “They are sowing fear. They are killing U.S. citizens. They just kidnapped a president, or leader, in Venezuela for oil.”
Not to be outdone, Gov. Healey said, “What’s going on right now with ICE in this country is horrifying.”
The tactics of ICE, she said, are “just incredibly cruel and callous.”
Not one of the three made any mention of a single child, woman or U.S. citizen who has been cruelly and callously raped or murdered by a criminal illegal immigrant.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
