Trump has managed to get his Gaza peace plan passed at the UN, but the fallout for him and Netanyahu over this con has only just begun. Right, so the UN Security Council has just signed off on Donald Trump chairing a foreign board to run Gaza, a multinational force with authority to use “all necessary measures” to disarm the very groups Israel has spent the last two years trying and failing to destroy whilst committing genocide, and a transition plan that keeps Israel’s perimeter exactly where it is while pretending the occupation has somehow ended. And the only people cheering are Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which should have been the giveaway from the start. Because when every faction actually living under the siege rejects the plan, when even the Jerusalem Post is warning this looks like 1982 Beirut all over again, and when Netanyahu is already talking about driving “Hamas and its supporters” out of the region, you can see what’s going on. This isn’t peace. It’s the same i*legal occupation having been rewritten in a different diplomatic font. Right, so the UN Security Council has just passed a “peace plan” for Gaza that Gaza didn’t write, Gaza didn’t approve, Gaza wasn’t asked to shape and Gaza is now being told it must live under, and that alone tells you exactly what kind of political game is being played here. It passed with thirteen votes in favour, Russia and China stepping aside with abstentions, arguably now letting the plan fail as it people start to see what its actually about and what is going on here and the Americans dressing it up as the diplomatic breakthrough they’ve been insisting is just around the corner, Trump bragging about ending another war, when this has never been war, its been genocide and he’s been the one mostly funding it; and everyone else pretending the optics are fine because, on paper, this looks like a stabilisation blueprint instead of what it actually is, which is an attempt to rebrand the occupation under international colours.