Last month, I suggested that giving the U.S. President a “FIFA Peace Prize” was like awarding a “Save the Seals” trophy to a Great White Shark in a tuxedo. Well, I must apologize. I was wrong. The shark hasn’t just been given a trophy; it’s been given a seat at the head of a new global committee, and Gianni Infantino is currently under the table shining its shoes.

Welcome to the Board of Peace (BoP). If you haven’t heard of it yet, don’t worry—neither has anyone with a functioning moral compass. Launched at the World Economic Forum, it is the latest “stability” initiative designed to “reconstruct” the very places the host nation has spent the last year helping to deconstruct. Honestly, calling this the “Board of Peace” is like calling a tectonic plate shift a “Landscaping Opportunity.” It’s less BoP, and more of a B.O.P.—a Bunch Of Pretenders.

And let’s talk about the bill, shall we? President Trump has pledged $10 billion of American taxpayers’ money to this ad-hoc, invitation-only clubhouse. That is ten billion dollars of hard-earned cash being funneled into a “Board” that operates with all the transparency of a lead-lined bunker. It is a staggering sum being used to build a “Mediterranean Riviera” on the literal graveyard of a population. This isn’t reconstruction; it’s a high-stakes real estate flip funded by the public purse, turning the ruins of Gaza into a beachfront investment opportunity while the people who actually lived there are still sifting through the rubble for their relatives.

And right there, front and center at the launch, was our favorite Swiss-Italian globetrotter, Gianni Infantino. Wearing a red “USA 45-47” hat and grinning like a man who just found a twenty-dollar bill in a pair of old trousers, Gianni pledged $75 million to build “FIFA Arenas” and a 25,000-seat national stadium.

But here is the crux of the matter, the absolute, gold-plated, diamond-encrusted insult at the heart of this farce: Gianni totally erased the Palestinians from the football map.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has been a full member of FIFA since 1998. They are a recognized Member Association. In any other corner of the globe, the local Member Association is the sole authority for football development. If Gianni wanted to build a pitch in Barnsley, he’d have to talk to the FA. If he wanted a stadium in Munich, he’d call the DFB. But when it comes to Gaza, he didn’t even bother to check his contacts list.

Gianni bypassed the PFA entirely. He didn’t just skip a phone call; he signed a deal with a foreign political board to build on Palestinian land without the PFA’s consent. This isn’t “diplomacy”; it is a calculated act of geopolitical complicity. By ignoring the PFA, Infantino is signaling that Palestinian sovereignty—even in sport—does not exist. He is treating a member of his own football family as a ghost, a non-entity to be managed by “The Board.”

This is more than just a snub; it is an indirect depiction of his own involvement in the normalization of a genocide. He is providing the “humanitarian” lacquer for a project that silences the opposition. He isn’t building pitches for the people; he’s building them to help the world forget the people ever had a right to the land. It’s the ultimate “White Savior” move: coming in to “fix” the house while keeping the owners locked in the basement.

It is no wonder that earlier this week, Infantino was formally reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC). While he’s busy playing “reconstruction” with a red hat on, legal experts are looking at his role in aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity. Specifically, the complaint targets his refusal to sanction Israeli clubs based in illegal settlements and his active role in suppressing the PFA’s legal rights. You can’t claim to be a man of peace when you’re helping the arsonist decide where to build the new fire station while the owners are still being evicted at gunpoint.

As for the IOC, their “investigation” into this breach of neutrality was a farce that lasted barely 24 hours. Kirsty Coventry promised to “research” the matter on Friday, and by Saturday, the case was closed. Apparently, wearing a campaign hat and signing $75 million deals with a partisan political board is “entirely in keeping with the role of an international sport federation.” The Olympic Charter, it seems, has the structural integrity of a wet paper towel when faced with a powerful man in a red hat.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so profoundly depressing. But hey, at least when the world finally ends, we’ll have a lovely 25,000-seat stadium in Gaza to watch the fireworks from. Just don’t expect the PFA to be invited to the opening ceremony. In Gianni’s world, they’ve already been scrubbed from the record.