George Orwell warned us about this in 1984. He described a world where the government was divided into four ministries: the Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war; the Ministry of Truth, with lies; the Ministry of Love, with torture; and the Ministry of Plenty, with starvation.

For decades, we treated this as a warning about state totalitarianism. We were wrong. It was a business model.

The Board of Peace Resolution 2026 / 1 does not establish a governing body for Gaza. It establishes the corporate merger of these four departments into a single entity. It has privatized the totalitarian state and hidden it behind the dull, beige language of a corporate bylaws document.

Here is how the Board of Peace has operationalized Orwell’s four ministries.

1. The Ministry of Peace.

War is peace. The occupation is the ...