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wThis characteristic is restraint, donald trump announced UN Security Council support of his Gaza peace plan as “one of the largest confessions in history”.
An action, he said, that will bring “Peace to the whole world”A moment of “true historical proportions”,
At Truth Social, the US President personally thanked all Security Council countries, including the 13 countries that voted in favor of Resolution 2803, which supports his 20-point plan for the besieged and devastated region.
He also thanked countries in the region, including Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, who supported the effort.
The resolution establishes a so-called “Peace Board”, or “BOP” as it is now affectionately called, and authorizes the creation of a multinational stabilization force that would be “deployed under a unified command” to govern. Gazaworking in cooperation with Egypt and israel,
His right-hand man, US Ambassador Mike Waltz, described it as “paving a new path for the Middle East”. Palestinian Foreign Minister Versen Aghabekian protested against Shaheen, part of the administration Hamas In the occupied West Bank it said it was “the first step on the long road towards peace”.
It’s certainly another victory for Trump, who has campaigned on being president of peace despite being the main supplier of the weapons Israel used in its devastating two-year bombing of the Strip. He often claims to be over Eight wars in eight months.
And to their credit, their planning has caused the worst of the fighting to end, and Israel’s siege of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has eased (though supplies are still far short of needs).
Now that it has been formally approved at the UN Security Council level, there will be some progress.
There is no doubt that action will be taken to begin building this international force, and, as Trump has teased, announcements on BOP membership may be coming soon.
This may or may not include the deeply divisive personality of Tony Blair, whose role in the 2003 US and British invasion of Iraq still casts a shadow over the region.
But fundamental issues remain. This proposal has already been criticized by one of the key stakeholders, HamasWhich rejected the imposition of an international guardianship mechanism on Gaza and, of course, the intended disarmament of its militants.
Israel prime minister benjamin netanyahuEager to appease members of his far-right government, who have publicly supported Gaza disengagement, he again reiterated his rejection of Palestinian statehood, which is not a foregone conclusion but is mentioned in Trump’s plan.
And so, as before, there remain obstacles, deliberate conspiracies and fundamentally existentially opposed viewpoints that have hindered the difficult task of trying to find a fair, equitable and workable peace settlement for Israel and Palestine.
In short, all the problems that the world has been trying to solve for generations have not disappeared just because the UN Security Council endorsed a 20-point document with no timelines, a vague outline and, importantly, no details.
Fundamental questions left unresolved for decades have not been addressed.
as i It was written earlier, These include Palestinian self-determination and Israeli occupation; accountability for violations of international law; And a path to dismantling the never-ending layers of trauma and violence, allowing for just peace and security for all.
Another major flaw is that the fate of the occupied West Bank is not even mentioned in the 20 points.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, millions of Palestinians still have no home to return to, traumatized by the killing of 69,000 people since October 2023, according to local officials. Most of this area is not even debris but is covered in dust.
Most people are still struggling to obtain basic needs, including food and medical supplies.
The future remains frightening and uncertain for them.