In November 2025, the UN Security Council endorsed Resolution 2803 which completely marginalised the UN while handing over the rebuilding of Gaza to the US. Yet one issue was made clear from the start, as China had stated: “Palestine is barely visible in the draft.” Russia also added its own warning, although tied to the two-state paradigm which is not reflected in the resolution’s text: “The main thing is that this document shouldn’t become a fig leaf for unbridled experiments conducted by the United States and Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”  

As US President Donald Trump continues to invite world leaders to join his Board of Peace, the earlier warnings strike clear although the rhetoric is shifting even from countries initially opposed to the US plan for Gaza, such as Russia. Pragmatism does not define Trump’s plan, for example. It only exploits a gap which the UN left unattended for decades.........

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