Trump’s UN victory is a path to a stalemate in Gaza

MembersTrump’s UN victory is a path to a stalemate in Gaza

Though Palestinian statehood remains a non-starter, the US scheme is likely to result in part of the coastal enclave remaining in the hands of Hamas, not usher in an era of peace.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Nov 20, 2025 at 4:13 pm

| Topics: Trump, Gaza

(JNS) US President Donald Trump got his way at the UN Security Council on Monday when it approved his 20-point plan for the future of the Gaza Strip. The resolution endorsed the deal that secured a ceasefire in the war that followed the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. With Russia and China abstaining rather than vetoing the measure, Trump received the world body’s endorsement for, among other points, the creation of an International Stabilization Force to police Gaza and a Board of Peace to govern it.

The president celebrated the vote in typically hyperbolic fashion, declaring: “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.”

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