Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd
It Could Happen Here
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4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Dana breaks down what’s being planned for Gaza, the so-called Board of Peace, and how this is a model for global conflict in the future.
Sources:
UNOCHA on ceasefire violations - https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-situation-update-353-gaza-strip
BBC on the Yellow Line - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxl6zkenqo
Aljazeera on the 20 point plan - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/16/us-declares-phase-two-of-gaza-ceasefire-but-what-did-phase-one-deliver
The Huffington Post on Putin’s invite - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-has-invited-vladimir-putin-to-join-his-gaza-board-of-peace-kremlin-says_uk_696e0478e4b0fb912e9948f8?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1768820090
Aljazeera on Board of Peace - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/18/trumps-board-of-peace-appears-to-seek-wider-mandate-beyond-gaza
Who is Nikolay Mladenov - https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/15/who-is-nickolay-mladenov-the-diplomat-tasked-with-disarming-gaza
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | CallZo Media. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:13.8 | My name is Dana Alperd. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm a professor of political science and a researcher of Arab and Palestinian politics. |
| 0:20.8 | Since I last recorded an episode, those in power have been very busy. |
| 0:26.5 | The world looks different from a month ago. |
| 0:30.2 | What would the assault on Minneapolis, the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro, |
| 0:34.9 | the, as of this recording, possible invasion of Greenland, |
| 0:38.9 | it's been hard for even the best of us to keep up. As Nemek from the series Andor would say, |
| 0:45.0 | the pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the |
| 0:51.1 | imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single |
| 0:56.0 | incident. I will never not squeeze in an end or reference when I can. Given that this is the state of the |
| 1:02.3 | world, what's happening in Palestine has largely slipped out of most people's feeds, and certainly the |
| 1:08.6 | media headlines. But lots is happening. Lots of dangerous things |
| 1:12.5 | are happening. And I'm going to take this episode to give an update about what's been going on. |
| 1:18.1 | Since the ceasefire was announced three months ago, 449 Palestinians have been killed by |
| 1:23.6 | Israeli attacks, and another 1,246 have been injured. Over a hundred of those killed |
| 1:30.3 | were children, according to UNICEF. The Gaza Strip has been reduced even further, with a new, quote, |
| 1:37.3 | yellow line demarcating where Israeli troops will remain, and where Palestinians are not allowed to go. |
| 1:44.1 | They literally placed concrete yellow blocks |
| 1:46.6 | on the ground in Gaza. And as the BBC notes from a report January 16th of this year, Israel continues |
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