Trump’s Gaza “peace” plan: A cruel joke in a conflict and peace illiterate world

“The Peace Throne Is Empty and the UN Cancelled” • Illustration AI-generated by Jan Oberg

“The Peace Throne Is Empty and the UN Cancelled” • Illustration AI-generated by Jan Oberg

The fact that the outlandish and quackish Trump “peace” plan for the genocided Gaza was passed by the UN Security Council defines the end of every understanding of true peace.

Jan Oberg

November 18, 2025

The UN Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution on November 17, 2025, endorsing Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. It authorised an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), backed a transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace”, and declared that conditions may now exist for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and eventual statehood. The vote passed 13–0, with Russia and China abstaining. This is UN SC Resolution 2803.

This goes against everything the UN stands for. Of course, China and Russia wisely abstained. They want no involvement and co-responsibility with this fake peace plan and are smart enough to see that it will never lead to true peace.

I ask myself – did the Trump Regime give the UN its death knell yesterday? It remains to be seen, but the consequences will be devastating and, tragically, associated with the name of its otherwise decent S-G, who has been completely outmanoeuvred.

On October 14, the China Academy and its editor, Mimi, of “China Roughly” conducted the interview below with me, which begins with my harsh criticism of this nonsensical, absurd, and unacceptable way of making peace.”Peace.” No wonder the video title: “Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Plan Was Hilarious from the Start – Best US Joke Ever.”

I call it a joke, and I will add that, if this has anything to do with peace, there is no need for political satire anymore. This is a satire on peace, intellectualism, international law and political ethics.

Quick and simple reasons for that:

  • A party to a conflict can not be a mediator or peacemaker; it has to be a neutral third party. The US has been on the side of Israel all the time and is the leading enabler of its genocide.
  • A war criminal and habitual international law-violator cannot be a mediator or lead a peace process; Trump and his suggested “peace” board member, Tony Blair, both have that status, albeit being non-convicted.
  • The conflicts that lie under and cause the unspeakable violence in Gaza, characterised by words such as apartheid, historical injustices, asymmetry, nuclearism, occupation and Zionism, as well as Hamas militancy, are not analysed or addressed. The underlying conflict, not the surface violence is the key to solving a conflict. This “peace” plan is pure symptom treatment.
  • The larger conflicts in the Middle East region that this conflict is part of are not addressed.
  • The whole project smacks of contemporary colonialism – we Westerners put ourselves up as those who shall run Gaza, and we have decided that it shall be demilitarised while we say nothing about Israeli militarism, occupation and nuclearism.
  • There is no understanding of this particular type of a-symmetric conflict which requires different approaches from symmetric conflicts.
  • All involved parties have not been addressed with three simple but fundamental questions: What do you think this conflict is about? What do you fear most and what future would you prefer or accept to live with – from which a mediator begins to look at possible arrangements and various possible futures.
  • There is no idea about consultations leading to a negotiation table. It is all done from outside by an incompetent, impossible “mediator” who has snatched the conflict from the weaker party.
  • Professional peace-making would build economic and other relations into a plan in such a way that the parties to a conflict would see it as more advantageous to cooperate than to fight each other in the future. There is no mention of anything like that, and of course, there will be more violence and no peace.
  • Professional peace-making would have utilised the world’s most experienced peace-making machinery, namely the United Nations. Instead of experienced, principled, trained and neutral UN peacekeepers and other UN elements drawn from around the world, this plan will deploy personnel from countries with a special political and/or economic interest that have no training in peacekeeping – perhaps, God forbid, even NATO countries.
  • A professional peace-making would have focused on post-violence processes and institutions such as forgiveness and reconciliation, a truth commission, security sector reform, de-militarising all sides, and discussing how schoolbooks, culture and cooperative projects could help the parties to live with what has happened and, slowly but surely, become partners in a process leading eventually to peace, stability and cooperation among all parties.

One could go on and on.

The fact that the UN Security Council has passed this cynical, miserable humbug “peace” resolution and virtually all parties and media call this a peace plan speaks volumes of the world’s peace illiteracy, of its peace and overwhelming endorsement of militarism.

That the UN Secretary-General goes along with this sidelining of his organisation and the defilement of everything the UN stands for only adds to the tragedy.

And why is true peace, as predictably as tragically, now dead?

Because people of low intelligence and/or being uneducated in conflict understanding prefer violence to non-violence.

Because we have no peace education, no peace academies, no university-level peace research and public education. Because media, politics and research have cancelled, tabooed and disappeared peace, by and large, since the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia – that is, the ravaging of the US-led unipolar world that is now coming to its end, also with this resolution.

Because not a single government leader has an adviser who knows the slightest about alternatives to militarist “solutions” – knows about mediation, peace-making and reconciliation – as a science and an art.

Because kakistocrats and the MIMAC – the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex – see all problems as something to use a hammer on because they only have a hammer in the toolbox.

Because peace requires creativity, knowledge and empathy – which are no longer characteristic of, or needed in, foreign policy- and security policy-making.

I am sure that with this Las VeGaza “peace” plan, Trump will be a high-ranking candidate for the 2026 NATO-aligned Nobel Peace Prize – that is, if it doesn’t finally decide to give it posthumously to Adolf Hitler…

PS The countries of the Security Council that made this fatal decision are: The US, Russia, China, France, the UK (all permanent members) + Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panthatama, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia – in other words, mostly countries will follow orders from Washington. As mentioned, China and Russia abstained.
Also, on November 19, Francesca Albanese issued a crushing critique of this resolution as a violation both of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and of the UN Charter itself. Read here.

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2 Responses

  1. Sadly, it is the last nail in the coffin of the United Nations and international law. The Israeli genocide in Gaza has not only killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent people and totally destroyed the Gaza Strip, it has also put an end to many important international organisations we built after the Second World War to end the scourge of war. The worst aspect of this fraudulent “peace plan” is that it has rewarded the country that has carried out the genocide and punishes its victims. Israel, with US backing and its active involvement, has attacked Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Qatar, and is now being rewarded with this so-called peace plan. All in all, it is another step towards the destruction and colonisation of Palestine, with the collusion of the countries which claim to be democracies, and it has also laid bare the cowardice, humiliation and abject subservience of most Arab regimes. It is a sad day for humanity and is not even good news for the US empire, because it shows the height of its overextension and pride before the inevitable fall.

  2. Thank you so much, dear Farhang for sharing your wisdom and despair. That said, we must still go on to a) point out the madness and b) combat it with better ideas – no matter what. You’ve always been a loved brother in arms…

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