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The UN Security Council on Monday authorized an International Stabilization Force for Gaza by adopting Resolution 2803, which backs the Donald Trump peace plan. This plan has more holes than a block of Swiss cheese. Despite its many flaws, however, the UNSC’s approval allows Gaza to move to stage two of the process, something Israel has been adamantly resisting.
The plan has many deficiencies, such as the lack of any reference to a two-state solution or Palestinian self-determination and the absence of any Palestinian agency. Though several countries had reservations about the text of the resolution, it passed with 13 votes in favor and none against, with both the Chinese and the Russians abstaining.
The Chinese representative said the text was “vague and unclear” and that “Palestine is barely visible in the draft.” The Russian representative described the resolution as something “we just couldn’t support.” He said the document could become a “fig leaf for unbridled experiments” by Israel and the US. Both countries were upset they were not consulted and that the UN had become a forum to merely rubber stamp what the US had already decided.
They are right. However, politics is the art of the possible. What else would have been possible in the current circumstances? There was no viable counteroffer on the table that the US would not veto. There was one suggestion by President Gustavo Petro of Colombia to use the so-called Uniting for Peace resolution in the UN General Assembly. However, no resolution was presented at the UN and, more importantly, no superpower to endorse it.
