The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and Occupation

The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and Occupation

The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns UN Resolution 2803 that aims to shield the Zionist occupation from accountability for its genocide and campaign of settler colonial expansion. This move will only further cement the occupation by masking it in a facade of peace, even while it continues the genocide against the Palestinian people. True peace can only come from the self-determination of Palestine, and this can only be achieved by completely ejecting the occupation forces through the people's resistance.

The US-backed plan for Gaza has been approved by the UN Security Council, positioning Donald Trump in a leading role for the territory's administration. The resolution, which passed 13-0 with abstentions from China and Russia, creates a so-called "international stabilization force" and outlines a "potential pathway to Palestinian statehood" after meeting "specific goals." However, beyond its facade as a "peace plan," this US-led initiative represents a a new tactic to continue the occupation of Palestinian land and a deliberate attempt to undermine genuine Palestinian self-determination. It is a false "peace" contingent on surrender and designed to open the door for more American economic domination in West Asia.

The resolution states that for two years, a Trump-led "Board of Peace" will oversee foreign troops, a panel of Palestinian technocratic "experts", and a local police force with vague pretenses of who it will consist of. The stabilization troops are tasked with "securing borders" in cooperation with a trained Palestinian police force and facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza through coordination with neighboring Egypt and genocidal "Israel."
Trump, the so-called leader of the peace board, has followed the US imperialist policy of unrelenting support for "Israel." Since Oct. 7, the US has delivered ninety thousand tons of arms and equipment on eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships. These weapons have been used to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and destroy more than 80% of all infrastructure in Gaza and 95% of all agricultural land.

The Trump administration's talk of "peace in the Middle East" is empty and distracting rhetoric. In practice, US support has been instrumental in allowing "Israel" to commit hundreds of violations since the so-called October 10th ceasefire went into effect. While the US completely ignores these violations, the State Department tirelessly publicizes false claims of ceasefire breaches by Palestinian resistance forces to justify a possible return to all-out war by "Israel."

The US is not dedicated to peace. It is only committed to ensuring its own flow of profit through the domination of its proxy, "Israel," and its own multinational corporations. These players each want their own piece of lucrative reconstruction contracts, along with the the extraction profits of resources and trade, all fueled by genocidal displacement. In a presentation shown to the Trump administration by industry giants on the possible benefits of the reconstruction of Gaza, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) appear alongside bullet points about the benefit "private industry investment” may have in Gaza in terms of building out "key infrastructure" like data centers and "gigafactories."

Forced Surrender is not Peace
The stabilization force is also mandated to oversee the complete demilitarization of Gaza, including the permanent decommissioning of weapons held by resistance forces. This authority is backed by a provision allowing the force to "use all necessary measures," effectively demanding the surrender of Palestinian armed resistance and self-defense.

The Palestinian people, living under the gun of a brutal and ongoing Zionist occupation, have never conceded their fundamental right to resist their oppressors. Yet, the UN, under the direct command of the US, actively works to deny and nullify this right. This violates the very UN Charter which explicitly guarantees all occupied peoples the right to fight for their liberation by any means necessary.

The resistance factions in Gaza have condemned the measure and reaffirmed their right to resist. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stated: "We reject the clauses related to disarmament and condemn labeling the resistance as terrorism, as this empties our people’s legitimate right to self-defense and transforms the international force from one of protection and separation into an offensive force that grants the occupation cover to continue its policies."

The UN's Historical Legacy in Palestine
UN resolutions, proposed by imperialist powers at the head of the UN Security Council, namely the US, UK, and France, have constantly conspired against Palestinian self-determination in favor of "Israel." The Zionist colonial project was inaugurated by the UN itself with the 1947 Partition Plan (Resolution 181), which illegitimately partitioned Palestine, at the time under British colonial mandate, to create a settler-colonial state for the Zionist movement. This act sanctioned the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, known as the Nakba.

The 1948 Nakba Zionist militias, which would later form the "Israeli" army, conducted a campaign of terror and mass expulsion. This included the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, with massacres in already surrendered villages like Deir Yassin and Tantura used to terrorize the native population into flight. This deliberate policy displaced over 750,000 Palestinians, the majority of the indigenous population at the time.

The imperialist framework continued after Israel's 1967 military occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, which displaced 300,000 Palestinians. While the UN passed Resolution 242 after the war, with a preamble that emphasized “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war,” it was deliberately designed to be unenforceable. It also nullified Resolution 181 and removed the demand for "Israel" to give back the lands it seized past the UN partition plan, setting the precedence for UN vacillation and submission to blatant Zionist rejection and violation of international law.

The core demand for "Israeli" withdrawal in Resolution 242 was deliberately weakened. Despite arguments from Arab states for a full retreat to the 1967 lines, the resolution's architects never intended this. The original language, which called for a withdrawal from "all the territories," was diluted after the "Israeli" administration persuaded the US to remove the key word "all." This omission, acknowledged by US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, proves that the resolution was specifically designed not to force Israel to relinquish all the land it captured in 1967. As with countless subsequent resolutions, the imperialist architects ensured there would be no consequences, allowing Israel to formally annex the entirety of Jerusalem in 1980.

From Haiti to Palestine: Foreign intervention disguised as peace forces
The recent plan for Palestine, approved by the UN Security Council, takes inspiration from imperialist intervention other nations plagued by US intervention, exemplified by the so-called "Gang Suppression Force" (GSF) in Haiti. Just as the GSF empowers foreign troops to suppress the Haitian people under the pretext of fighting gangs, the new resolution for Gaza paves the way for a parallel structure of foreign military administration, aimed at crushing the legitimate Palestinian resistance and securing the interests of the Zionist entity and US monopoly capital. Similar to the GSF which was granted power to arrest and kill Haitian citizens at will, this new international "peace keeping force" in Gaza would be allowed to act with force to suppress any challenge to the zionist entity.

As the primary sponsor of this decree, the US justifies the creation of the GSF on the gang violence that has afflicted the Haitian people for decades. While it is true that over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite, while over one million people have been driven from their homes, the political hand of the US is directly backing these gangs. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-US government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify US control over the Caribbean.

The appointment of a foreign “Force Commander” for the GSF makes clear its function as a colonial occupation army, serving as a counter-insurgency force, designed to suppress the people’s movement for liberation and keep the country destabilized so the imperialists can continue to exploit it.

The histories of Haiti and Palestine are marked by prolonged foreign subjugation. Refusing both nations their fundamental right to self-determination will never lead to stability. Lasting peace is impossible without confronting the root cause of war: the imperialist plunder of resources and the military occupation of their lands. True justice demands the recognition of self-determination, sovereign control over economic and food systems, and the right of besieged peoples to resist aggressive and violent oppression.

Fighting for a People's Justice
International institutions continue to abet the genocide, but the people are organizing for genuine justice. The "Right to Resist" International People's Tribunal, convened by the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) and a broad coalition of over 200 endorsing organizations, in Barcelona on November 22 - 23, was a bold action of solidarity with the Palestinian people's right to resist occupation and to struggle for the right to return.

The Tribunal provided a space where true justice could actually be asserted. Political obstruction and structural limitations have rendered official international bodies like the ICC and UN ineffective, a catastrophic two-year period of mass violence, genocide, and environmental ruin has gone legally unchallenged. It is for this precise reason that this people's tribunal was formed to document events, outline the applicable legal principles, and demand accountability where it has otherwise been absent.

While the US uses the imperialist-controlled United Nations to wield international law as a weapon to repress all forms of peoples' movements, even as it ignores it through its own actions, true peace and justice can only come through the actions and struggle of the people themselves.

The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Haiti, and all oppressed nations against continued foreign occupation, often disguised as "peace missions." Peace-loving people across the globe must continue to take to the streets, organize protests and popular tribunals, and engage in direct action to strengthen international solidarity with these nations.