UNSC Backs Trump Gaza Plan, Green-Lights Foreign Stabilization Force

Great-power schemes to police the Levant have a checkered past—the 1982–84 Multinational Force in Lebanon dissolved after the Beirut barracks bombings, and the 1956 UNEF in Sinai evaporated when war returned in 1967. Like those episodes, today’s vote reflects the recurring impulse to insert external troops when local power balances collapse. The deeper trend is the gradual multilateralisation of the Israeli-Palestinian question: since Oslo (1993) outsiders mostly funded but did not directly govern territory; now the Council is mandating boots on the ground, hinting at a partial trusteeship model reminiscent of the League of Nations mandates a century ago. Over a 100-year horizon the move matters because it tests whether the international system can compel both a non-state actor (Hamas) and a U.S. ally (Israel) to cede some control—something the UN has rarely achieved. If it works, it could reopen a pathway to Palestinian sovereignty; if it fails, it may join a long list of short-lived interventions that left the underlying conflict, and regional trust in multilateral fixes, even weaker.