Trump’s Gaza Plan Turns the UN Into His Enforcer
In his latest report for The Media Line, Gabriel Colodro takes readers inside a diplomatic experiment that has turned the United Nations on its head and placed President Donald Trump at the center of Gaza’s future. After years of railing against the UN, the US president has pushed through a 20-point Gaza plan that the Security Council not only adopted, but also wrote into international law. The resolution backs a multinational force to demilitarize the Strip and a technocratic Palestinian body to help govern it—on paper, under UN authority, but in practice under a Peace Council chaired by President Trump.
Professor Eytan Gilboa tells Colodro that this is the first time the Security Council has embraced a Trump peace initiative, calling it a calculated move to use UN backing to improve both the plan’s legitimacy and the UN’s own image. Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel sees something more radical: a UN that has failed so badly in Gaza and Lebanon that it is “handing it to Donald Trump” because only Washington can enforce the deal.
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From there, the article widens out. Former Mossad Deputy Director Ram Ben-Barak asks who will actually confront Hamas on the ground. Member of Knesset Zvi Sukkot warns that Hamas may be badly damaged, but is already looking for a way to rebuild. Haskel, looking at Lebanon and Gaza side by side, argues that without real power and a willingness to fight, any international force will just watch terrorism grow.
Colodro’s piece ends with a sharp question for readers: Is this resolution a genuine chance to reshape Gaza, or the opening chapter of the next war? To see the full range of voices wrestling with that choice, you’ll want to read his article to the end.
