UNSC Green-Lights Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Gaza Plan, 13-0 With Russia & China Abstaining

Great-power orchestration of Middle-East security is not new: in 1982 a U.S-led Multinational Force landed in Beirut under UNSCR 521, and the 1994 Oslo security arrangements imported foreign monitors to Hebron—both unraveled once local actors balked at external tutelage. Like those episodes, today’s vote reflects a century-long pattern: outside powers trade security guarantees for political concessions, while local factions weigh sovereignty against survival. The near-unanimous Council vote, despite Russian-Chinese misgivings, signals a post-Ukraine thaw where Washington can still marshal multilateral legitimacy when Arab heavyweights (Qatar, KSA, UAE, Egypt) line up; yet the abstentions telegraph that Beijing and Moscow will exploit any implementation stumble. Over the long arc, the resolution tests two deep trends: (1) the gradual outsourcing of conflict management to ad-hoc coalitions rather than UN blue helmets, and (2) the persistent collision between demands for Palestinian self-determination and Israeli security maximalism. If the force succeeds it may, like the 1979 Egypt-Israel peacekeeping mission, anchor a durable regional realignment; if it fails, it could join the litany of imposed frameworks—from the 1922 Mandate to the 2003 Roadmap—that left the core national questions unresolved, merely resetting the clock for the next eruption sometime before 2125.