The UN Security Council unanimously approves Trump’s Gaza/PA plan
When was the last time the Security Council voted unanimously on anything in the Middle East involving Israel? In this case, Russia and China abstained – but still, the whole thing makes me suspicious.
The resolution implements a mandate for Washington and partners to launch an international stabilization force in Gaza and a Board of Peace, which Trump will chair and which will serve as a transitional government authority.
The resolution also sets parameters for Israeli troops to withdraw from Gaza, leaving some in place to guard against resurgent terror threats. …
“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement,” stated Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, after the vote. “There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”
The resolution also states that “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after the Palestinian Authority undergoes reforms and Gaza’s reconstruction is “advanced.”
Of course, Hamas has responded with its usual F-you, saying it must have its “weapons of resistance.”
I think the agreement is basically some sort of internationally-accepted fantasy. Then again, the details of what will really happen are as-yet-unknown – perhaps even by the main participants, including Trump (who won’t always be around and whose successor might have very different ideas). In other words: what will Hamas be forced to give up? How will they be forced? How weak are they at this point? What might take their place?
And of tremendous and overarching importance is: what will the “Palestinians” be teaching their children for the next twenty years or so? Who will oversee this? If it’s the same-old same-old, nothing will help.
Board of Peace, room and board, bored to tears, subterranean boring ongoing, subterranean capture, uncertain — but by all means see to it that the belligerent Israel feed their enemies like there is no tomorrow for food consumption.
… the whole thing makes me suspicious.
Exactly.
More theatrical posturing from the UN.
(That being said, they’re most of them—with the exception of Trump and a few others—just fine thank you with the erasure of the Jewish State—GOOD RIDDANCE. And if Israel insists on disagreeing, well…tant-pis.)
IMO, the UN Security Council is complete crap. Who listens to them anymore? This is not “news”.
Since Hamas has no intention of disarming, the “plan” isn’t going to happen anyhow. Nor are surrounding Arab states at all likely to help, and they certainly won’t accept “refugees” from Gaza. They saw what happened in Jordan and Lebanon.
So, what has been accomplished is the return of the still-living hostages and many of the dead, and Israel with a much larger security zone around Gaza, and Hamas very substantially damaged, with more limited ability to attack Israel for some time to come.
If the Israelis will be allowed by their crazy Supreme Court to begin executing terrorists convicted of murder, the sick cycle of hostage-taking to get the murderers released could stop, which would be a step forward.
Caroline Glick has thoughts: “Hamas has no future.”
https://x.com/tperkins/status/1990914916652298343
Meanwhile, Lee Smith has even bigger ones (as he tries to navigate the enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a puzzle, or whatever, that is the Middle East…kinda like Dubai chocolate but nowhere near as inviting)…
“Farewell to the Abraham Accords;
“MBS’s White House visit marked a return to normalcy in the Middle East, and a U.S. pivot toward China”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/farewell-abraham-accords-lee-smith
H/T Powerline blog.
Note: Might wanna read the above in conjunction with something I linked to earlier:
“Neither American nor Conservative;
“The flagship paleoconservative publication got everything about Donald Trump’s Middle East policy wrong—and then melted down.”—
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-kirchick/american-conservative-trump-middle-east/
…in which we discover that Obama was/is really a Pat Buchanan paleocon—either that or the paleocons are Obama/Jarret-adjacent…
Is the UN approval of Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan a recommendation or a warning?
Merely a trap.
…the problem being that they will NEVER give up.
None of ‘em.
Never.
Ever.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418039
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418020
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417999
(In their defense, though, the destruction of the Zionist Entity is a tremendous—perhaps the most important—mitzva…)
+ Bonus
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418023
Plus, one can expect a whole lot more of THIS (though I’m not sure it can in any way be described as an “escalation” over what’s been happening over the past two years).
Still…
https://instapundit.com/757425/
And so, WELCOME to business as usual…