🛑 The UN Just Voted for Colonialism in Gaza :: Let Me Try to Explain this Infuriating UN Vote
Security Council Resolution 2803 hands Gaza to a U.S.-run “Board of Peace” and a proxy occupation force — with Israel at the table and Palestinians locked outside.
Family,
The United Nations just did something so disgusting that even longtime insiders are calling it a return to open colonialism.
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Now, let me explain what the UN Security Council just did to Gaza.
What just happened at the UN?
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, backing Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza.
Former senior UN official Craig Mokhiber — who spent decades inside the system — described what happened better than anyone else: the Council effectively handed control of Gaza over to a U.S.-run colonial administration, with Israel sitting at the table, and no real Palestinian role in deciding their own future.
The plan creates two new bodies:
A “Board of Peace” – a U.S.-led governing authority that will run Gaza’s administration, aid, reconstruction, borders, and “any other tasks that may be required.”
An “International Stabilization Force” – a U.S.-directed armed force that will operate in “cooperation with” Israel and Egypt, controlling Gaza’s borders, demilitarizing the Strip, and policing Palestinians.
Both ultimately answer to Donald Trump. Both are required to consult with Israel. Neither is required to consult with the Palestinian people.
It is, in every sense, a colonial trusteeship imposed on a people still under genocide.
In plain language: what this resolution actually does
Here’s what Resolution 2803 means behind the diplomatic polish:
It denies Palestinians the right to self-determination in Gaza and hands power to a U.S.-controlled Board instead.
It extends Israel’s illegal occupation, explicitly allowing Israeli forces to stay in Gaza, including in an indefinite “security perimeter.”
It superimposes a second occupation — U.S.-led — on top of the first one.
It gives the U.S. a veto over any future Palestinian statehood by making any “pathway” to independence hinge on U.S.-defined “reforms” and U.S.-controlled processes.
It says almost nothing about accountability for genocide, apartheid, torture camps, or reparations. Instead, it shifts the bill to international donors — essentially a bailout for Israel.
That’s the core: Palestinians are not treated as a people with rights. They’re treated as a problem to be managed by the very states that armed and protected their killers.
The UN versus its own court
The resolution doesn’t just betray morality. It openly contradicts international law and recent rulings from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The ICJ has already found:
That Palestinians have a right to self-determination on their own land.
That Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem are illegally occupied and that the occupation must end quickly and completely.
That Palestinians do not need to negotiate their basic rights with the very regime oppressing them, and no political process can override those rights.
Resolution 2803 tramples all of that.
Instead of ending occupation, it extends it.
Instead of empowering Palestinians, it disempowers them.
Instead of enforcing rights, it turns those rights into favors the U.S. and its partners may grant if Palestinians pass enough “reform and development” tests designed in Washington, Paris, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv.
The text says that after the Trump-led bodies decide Palestinians have met undefined criteria, “the conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”
Read that again: not self-determination itself — just a possible pathway, controlled by the same government that armed Israel’s genocide.
That is not law. That is blackmail.
A proxy occupation dressed up as “stabilization”
The “International Stabilization Force” is sold as a mission to protect civilians, monitor the ceasefire, and help aid flow.
But if you read the mandate, it’s clear who it exists to protect.
It is to:
secure the borders — in other words, keep Palestinians caged
demilitarize Gaza — strip only Palestinians of weapons and defense
decommission the resistance — not the army that flattened their homes
train Palestinian police — so they can police their own people under occupation
operate in collaboration with the Israeli military and under the political direction of the Trump Board
This is not a neutral peacekeeping force. It is a proxy occupation army, designed to control the survivors of genocide, not the perpetrators of it.
The resolution even allows Israeli forces to remain in Gaza until the U.S.-led Board and Israel jointly decide otherwise. Palestinians are not given a say in when occupation ends on their own land.
This is why Mokhiber calls it a “colonial outrage” and a “ratification of genocide.”
The UN as an instrument of empire
The United Nations Security Council is supposed to be bound by the UN Charter and by the highest rules of international law — especially the rules against colonialism, racial domination, and acquiring territory by force.
Instead, with one vote, it just:
endorsed a 19th-century style colonial scheme
handed the survivors of genocide to their co-perpetrators
ignored the ICJ’s findings
and gave the U.S. a formal role as colonial administrator of Gaza
Russia and China abstained, but they didn’t veto. Not a single Council member had the courage to vote no.
The veto that has been used over and over to block Palestinian rights suddenly disappeared when it could have been used to protect them.
In Mokhiber’s words,
“In one minute of voting, the Security Council has lost all legitimacy.”
If the Council can simply ignore the law — and its own court — then it becomes exactly what the global South has always feared: a tool of imperial power, not a guardian against it.
What do we do now?
Craig Mokhiber is clear, and I agree with him completely: this plan must be opposed.
That means:
fighting it in every capital that might contribute troops or money,
pressuring governments to end their complicity,
isolating Israel diplomatically,
deepening boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaigns,
demanding arms, fuel, and tech embargoes,
pushing for prosecutions of Israeli and U.S. officials in every available tribunal,
and filling the streets with demonstrations, strikes, civil disobedience, and direct action.
It also means something else: recognizing that the UN General Assembly and the world’s majority of states still have tools like Uniting for Peace to bypass a captured Security Council. There is still a path to real protection for Palestinians — but only if the global South and global civil society force the issue.
If they don’t, the UN will slowly die of self-inflicted wounds, and history will mark this resolution as one of the fatal ones.
Family, if you want reporting that tells you the truth about what just happened — not the sanitized press release version — I need you with me.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
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