UN Security Council Resolution 2803 represents a victory for American diplomacy, enforcing the law of the jungle. On November 17, 2025, in New York, Russia and China abstained, despite holding the power to block the resolution with their veto—a privilege reserved for the five permanent powers. I have read the resolution. The condemnation of Gaza is buried within its deliberately ambiguous overarching framework. The “Board of Peace,” a so-called council led by Trump, is now tasked with governing the battered Strip, aided by an international “stabilization” force whose mission is to disarm the Palestinians. Or, to put it more bluntly, to eradicate Hamas.
This ignores the fact that Trump himself, upon announcing the Pentagon’s plan, explicitly stated that Hamas was already a decapitated movement. Yet, the Israeli government clearly disagrees with the Pentagon, and has already demonstrated its express genocidal intent through indiscriminate killings, even after the supposed truce.
Netanyahu’s regime considers every Palestinian a terrorist, women and children included. This UN resolution risks becoming a formal smokescreen to “finish the job.” It appears the world has abandoned the Palestinians to their fate. It is, of course, convenient for everyone to look the other way and continue the ostrich policy, heads buried in the sand to avoid the daily reality in Gaza. A token mention of the Palestinian right to self-determination is included in the resolution, but it serves only to secure the abstentions of Russia and China and the complicity of Arab states. How can anyone believe that a de facto colonial administration of the Strip will bring peace? Does it not, instead, provide a formal cover for genocide? I hope I am wrong…
In theory, Article 8 of the resolution sets a deadline for December 31, 2027. But let us imagine the Stabilization Force (ISF) fails to pacify the resistance by then. It is painfully clear it will simply keep its boots on the ground, continuing its work under a UN mandate—or by that point, even without one. These will not be UN Blue Helmets; this force is engineered to appease Israel, not to stop a genocide—a word conspicuously absent from the resolution, as if the very concept does not exist. Of course, no one can claim to know the future, which may yet prove different from my well-founded fears.
The Israeli military (IDF) pledges to withdraw only after the complete annihilation of its enemies, as if the resulting wasteland—sinking into global indifference and labeled ‘peace’—were not enough. The plan to train a Palestinian police force and establish a Palestinian technical committee seems a cruel farce for the benefit of hypocrites, relegating Palestinians to a permanently subordinate role. Judge for yourselves: is this peace?
And yet, hope endures in the spirit of ordinary people. Millions have poured into streets worldwide to protest their governments’ complicity or incompetence. Hope sailed the seas, challenging the criminal blockade of aid with the Flotillas. Hope fuels those who refuse to be deceived by a hollow peace. We will continue to protest, to demand a genuine peace for the martyred Palestinian people and for all communities ravaged by war.