Donald Trump's Gaza takeover plan has fallen at the first hurdle, but then it was always going to when peace meant jumping to Israel's tune. Right, so here’s the thing about Trump’s grand Gaza plan: it’s only “historic” if you judge history by how fast a policy collapses under the weight of its own nonsense. The United States marched into the UN Security Council with a straight face and sold a blueprint that puts Trump in charge of Gaza’s transition, hands sweeping authority to a Board of Peace that still hasn’t been staffed, and demands an International Stabilisation Force that nobody is actually willing to send. And of course they told the world this was the path to order, because Washington always does, even when the plan depends on foreign soldiers enforcing a demilitarisation mandate that no Palestinian faction has agreed to and no contributing country is prepared to take on. So you look at the resolution, you look at the silence that followed, and you realise the truth: the takeover isn’t stuck, it never changed. Right, so Trump’s Gaza plan has already hit the point where the only way you can describe it honestly is to say that the packaging looked impressive, the machinery looked complicated, the Council vote looked decisive, and none of it has changed the basic fact that you cannot impose a new order on Gaza if the countries you need to carry it don’t believe the mandate is workable, legitimate, or safe. The United States pushed through a resolution that creates a governing body chaired by Trump, installs a transitional administration with sweeping authority, and orders the formation of a multinational force to stabilise Gaza and begin demilitarising the territory. On paper this is a takeover. In the real world it is a blueprint that has been collapsing the moment anyone outside Washington tries to translate it into actual troop numbers, legal responsibilities or political realities. The core of the plan is simple enough when you strip away the choreography. The Board of Peace is written in as the transitional authority over Gaza. It has the power to oversee reconstruction, manage borders in cooperation with neighbours, supervise the training of a new Palestinian police force and certify when Israel’s security thresholds are met.