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The US bulldozed the prospect of Uniting for Peace in Palestine

On 17 November, the UNSC deadlock was broken when, with 13 votes in favor and two abstentions (Russia and China), members adopted a US draft resolution (UN Resolution 2803) to establish a Board of Peace as a “transitional authority” to oversee Gaza reconstruction and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) with a mandate lasting until end of year 2027 – “subject to further action” by the Security Council.The ISF will work “in close consultation and cooperation with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel,” the resolution said.“I assume that the US, at Israel’s urging, was very unhappy about the prospect of Uniting for Peace,” and “that a lot of pressure was brought to bear on the UN and on the members of the Security Council to vote as they did,” said Richard Falk, President of the Gaza Tribunal Project, a civil society initiative promoting an alternative model to implement international law in Gaza, and from 2008 to 2014 a former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.But, he told The Electronic Intifada, “it’s a very strange context in which the perpetrator of genocide and its principal supporter are rewarded by presiding over a supposed peace process,” he said. “That’s very perverse.”Meanwhile, “[Palestinians] have been excluded from these post-high-intensity genocide negotiations altogether. They’ve had no role in shaping their own future or shaping the intended future of Gaza,” he said.The resolution has received public condemnation from Palestine rights advocates, including experts in international law.“[Resolution] 2803 puts Gaza in the hands of a puppet administration, with the US as the new manager of an open-air prison, further crushing Palestine’s right to self-determination and any path to peace,” wrote Francesca Albanese, current UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.It’s “a US colonial outrage, a ratification of genocide, and a flagrant abdication of UN Charter principles,” wrote Craig Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer and former UN official who resigned due to the organization’s failure to respond to a “textbook genocide” in Gaza.