{"id":307579,"date":"2025-11-17T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=307579"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:34:03","slug":"trumps-ploy-at-the-un-is-u-s-imperialism-masquerading-as-a-peace-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/trumps-ploy-at-the-un-is-u-s-imperialism-masquerading-as-a-peace-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Ploy at the UN Is U.S. Imperialism Masquerading as a Peace Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Nov 2025 – <\/em>The\u00a0Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) this week aimed at eliminating the possibility of a State of\u00a0Palestine<\/a>. The resolution does three things. It establishes US political control over\u00a0Gaza<\/a>. It separates\u00a0Gaza<\/a>\u00a0from the rest of\u00a0Palestine<\/a>. And it allows the US, and therefore\u00a0Israel<\/a>, to determine the timeline for Israel\u2019s supposed withdrawal from Gaza\u2013which would mean: never.<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0imperialism<\/a>\u00a0masquerading as a peace process. In and of itself it\u2019s no surprise. Israel runs US foreign policy in the Middle East. What is a surprise is that the US and Israel might just get away with this travesty unless the world speaks up with urgency and indignation.<\/p>\n

The draft UNSC resolution would establish a US-UK-dominated Board of Peace, chaired by none other than\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0himself, and endowed with sweeping powers over Gaza\u2019s governance, borders, reconstruction, and security. This resolution would sideline the State of Palestine and condition any transfer of authority to the\u00a0Palestinians<\/a>\u00a0on the indulgence of the Board of Peace.<\/p>\n

This would be an overt return to the British Mandate of 100 years ago, with the only change being that the US would hold the mandate rather than Britain. If it weren\u2019t so utterly tragic, it would be laughable. As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Yes, the proposal is farce, yet Israel\u2019s\u00a0genocide<\/a>\u00a0is not. It is tragedy of the first order.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, according to the draft resolution, the Board of Peace would be granted sovereign powers in Gaza. Palestinian sovereignty is left to the discretion of the Board, which alone would decide when Palestinians are \u201cready\u201d to govern themselves \u2013 perhaps in another 100 years? Even military security is subordinated to the Board, and the envisioned forces would answer not to the UN Security Council or to the Palestinian people, but to the Board\u2019s \u201cstrategic guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US-Israel resolution is being put forward precisely because the rest of the world\u2014other than Israel and the US\u2014has woken up to two facts. First, Israel is committing genocide, a reality witnessed every day in Gaza and the\u00a0West Bank<\/a>, where innocent Palestinians are murdered to the satisfaction of the\u00a0Israel Defense Forces<\/a>\u00a0and the illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Second, Palestine is a state, albeit one whose sovereignty remains obstructed by the US, which uses its veto in the UNSC to block Palestine\u2019s permanent UN membership. At the UN this past July and then again in September, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for Palestine\u2019s statehood, a fact that put the Israel-US Zionist lobby into overdrive, resulting in the current draft resolution.<\/p>\n

For Israel to accomplish its goal of\u00a0Greater Israel<\/em>, the US is pursuing a classic divide-and-conquer strategy, squeezing Arab and Islamic states with threats and inducements. When other countries resist the US-Israel demands, they are cut off from critical technologies, lose access to\u00a0World Bank<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0IMF<\/a>\u00a0financing, and suffer Israeli bombing, even in countries with\u00a0US military<\/a>\u00a0bases present. The US offers no real protection; rather, it orchestrates a\u00a0protection racket<\/em>, extracting concessions from countries wherever US leverage exists. This extortion will continue until the global community stands up to such tactics and insists upon genuine Palestinian sovereignty and US and Israeli adherence to\u00a0international law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Palestine remains the endless victim of US and Israeli maneuvers. The results are not just devastating for Palestine, which has suffered an outright genocide, but for the Arab world and beyond. Israel and the US are currently at war, overtly or covertly, across the Horn of\u00a0Africa<\/a>\u00a0(Libya<\/a>,\u00a0Sudan<\/a>,\u00a0Somalia<\/a>), the Eastern Mediterranean (Lebanon<\/a>,\u00a0Syria<\/a>), the Gulf region (Yemen<\/a>), and Western Asia (Iraq, Iran).<\/p>\n

If the UN Security Council is to provide true security in accordance with the UN Charter, it must not yield to US pressures and instead act decisively in line with international law. A resolution truly for peace should include four vital points. First, it should welcome the State of Palestine as a sovereign UN member state, with the US lifting its veto. Second, it should safeguard the territorial integrity of the State of Palestine and Israel, according to the 1967 borders. Third, it should establish a UNSC-mandated protection force drawn up from Muslim-majority states. Fourth, it should include the defunding and disarmament of all belligerent non-state entities, and it should ensure the mutual security of Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n

The two-state solution is about true peace\u2014not about the politicide and genocide of Palestine, or the continued attacks by militants on Israel. It\u2019s time for both Palestinians and Israelis to be safe, and for the US and Israel to give up the cruel delusion of permanently ruling over the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, is Director of Columbia\u2019s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as Special Adviser to three UN Secretaries-General [Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. His books include <\/em>The End of Poverty<\/a>, Common Wealth<\/a>, The Age of Sustainable Development<\/a>, Building the New American Economy<\/a>, and most recently,<\/em> A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism<\/a>. Sachs was also an advisor to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as to the first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \u00a0Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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