Trump’s “Peace Council” Is Great-Power Madness Spoken in the Language of Peace

Although it is no longer covered by the mainstream media to the same extent, the genocide in Gaza continues. Palestinian men, women, and children are still dying under Israeli attacks, all despite the “peace agreement” that is supposedly still in place.

The plan is divided into phases, and we are now supposed to be in the transition between phase one and phase two, even though the Israelis continue to attack Gaza and still do not allow humanitarian aid unhindered access. Nevertheless, the rest of the world behaves as if the peace plan is still moving forward.

Among other things, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced the basis for his so-called “Peace Council,” which was stipulated as a kind of transitional administration in Gaza in the original peace plan. However, the framework that has now been presented bears no resemblance at all to the vision that was promised at the United Nations when the Security Council adopted the peace plan last year.

The newly presented framework looks more like a president who, in his eagerness to appear “peace-making,” has created a forum in which he can decide the course of the world. A kind of imperial administration with the United States at the helm.

In contrast to the original proposal adopted by the UN, there is nothing temporary or Gaza-specific about Trump’s Peace Council. There is no end date and no specific mandate for the council beyond the vague hope of “peace.”

Trump alone can decide who is to be part of the council, he can appoint his own successor, and heads of state who wish to join the council can only serve for three years at a time—unless they pay the neat sum of one billion dollars for the “work of the council.”

It is not specified, however, who would actually receive that money.

The demand must be to strengthen the United Nations and international law. Trump’s contempt for those principles must not be allowed to spread in the world. Only through genuine cooperation and mutual respect between nations can peace be achieved in the world’s flashpoints.

None of these elements were present in the proposal adopted by the UN Security Council. The council therefore has no basis in international law, although the United States is hardly known for caring particularly much about that aspect.

The intention of the United States is clearly to create a counterweight to the UN and international law. The UN, despite its own flaws, operates far more on the basis of reaching agreement among countries. That dimension is completely removed by Trump in his Peace Council, where the United States holds all the power and everyone else is expected to be grateful just to be invited into the club.

And if we look at who has been invited, there are some striking omissions from the guest list. Most obvious is the fact that a council that is supposed, among other things, to work for peace in Gaza has no members from Palestine. Neither the Palestinian Authority nor any of the other groups that wield influence in Palestine.

Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited—and he has accepted. To say that this is like putting the wolf in charge of guarding the sheep is an understatement. Netanyahu has opposed the demand for a Palestinian state throughout his entire career; believing that this would change now is wishful thinking.

Trump’s Peace Council is therefore nothing more than the last attempt by a dying empire to remain relevant. It underscores that the United States now openly scoffs at everything related to international law and UN mandates. The United States views the world as a place where might makes right, and Trump now underlines this with the farce that is the “Peace Council.”

The demand must be to strengthen the United Nations and international law. Trump’s contempt for those principles must not be allowed to spread in the world. Only through genuine cooperation and mutual respect between nations can peace be achieved in the world’s flashpoints.

This is possible—but only if the rest of the world finally confronts U.S. imperialism and says, “enough is enough.”

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