Trump Praises UN for Gaza Peace Plan

In stark contrast to his customary anti-UN rhetoric, U.S. President Donald Trump has praised the UN Security Council for its endorsement of a new peace plan for Gaza and the Middle East. His November 17 Truth Social post reads:

Congratulations to the World on the incredible Vote of the United Nations Security Council, just moments ago, acknowledging and endorsing the BOARD OF PEACE, which will be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World. This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations, will lead to further Peace all over the World, and is a moment of true Historic proportion! Thank you to the United Nations, and all of the Countries on the U.N. Security Council, China, Russia, France, The United Kingdom, Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, South Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia. Also thank you to those Countries that weren’t on this Committee, but strongly backed the effort, including Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkiye, and Jordan. The members of the Board, and many more exciting announcements, will be made in the coming weeks.

The UN, for its part, is “prepared to play ‘any role’ needed to advance the breakthrough Security Council resolution endorsing the United States-led Gaza peace plan,” according to UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq, cited in a UN news release, which continued:

Although the UN has no defined role in either finalizing the Board of Peace chaired by President Trump — which will oversee the transition and reconstruction of Gaza — or the planned stabilization force, Mr. Haq said the UN was “committed to implementing the roles entrusted to it in the resolution.”

It is tasked with scaling up humanitarian assistance for stricken civilians across the Strip following more than two years of war between Hamas and Israeli forces “and supporting all efforts to move the parties toward the next phase of the ceasefire.”

The Council endorsed the US peace plan and a temporary international force for Gaza by 13-0 on Monday [November 17], with Russia and China abstaining.

The specific action is UN Security Council Resolution 2803, which makes clear from the language that it regards itself as the ultimate source of all authority for what happens in the Middle East. The resolution authorizes not only the creation of a Board of Peace, but also a “temporary International Stabilization Force.” In practice, of course, this will mean, as with all other international peacekeeping efforts authorized by the UN Security Council, from the Korean Peninsula to Cyprus to Iraq, that the supreme command will be the UN, not, as Trump seems to imagine, the American president. If past is precedent, we can soon expect blue-helmeted troops to begin patrolling Gaza and perhaps other contested territories in Israel and Palestine. We can only wonder what the other “exciting announcements” in coming weeks will entail.

Unconstitutional Foreign Aid, Intervention

While Trump is to be commended for his many actions opposing the UN and the globalist agenda, such as withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and from the World Health Organization, and for boycotting various globalist events, such as the ongoing COP30 climate conference in Brazil, his commendable interest in securing peace between warring countries is something that the globalists can turn to their advantage. Trump has made no secret of wanting to be known as the “peace president” — a desire that UN globalists can harness to their own benefit, if Trump gives them an opening.

It bears mentioning that there’s nothing amiss in an American president using his good offices to help negotiate peace between third parties. It becomes constitutionally problematic, however, the moment that negotiations give way to foreign aid, military commitments, and the like. What Trump seems to envisage for Gaza is some kind of U.S. military presence, along with the usual “aid packages.” Any sort of “Marshall Plan for Palestine” should be opposed, not only on “America First” grounds, but on constitutional grounds as well.