Involvement of UN, an enemy of Jewish state, may bring new challenges to Israel.

Involvement of the United Nations, an enemy of the Jewish state, may bring new challenges to Israel.

Trump should see it as a moral obligation to take on the role of the defender of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East region, during the demilitarization and reconstruction of Gaza.

In the spring of 2025, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump and who is now acting as an advisor to US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, engaged Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change (TBI) to develop a postwar transitional plan leading to the demilitarization of Gaza. The proposal by TBI conceived the establishment of the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA). GITA specified the establishment of a board composed of up to ten members, including at least one qualified Palestinian representative. The board will be responsible for issuing strategic directions.

Trump’s 20-point peace plan, conceptually, reflects the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA) of Tony Blair’s proposal. On September 29, 2025, the 20-point plan was announced to the public. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was present during the introduction of the plan.

Tony Blair’s proposal explicitly states that the Gaza International Transitional Authority should be legitimized by a UN Security Council resolution. Following on this notion, a week ago the US initiated a process to receive UN Security Council approval for the Gaza security force as well as to obtain a two-year mandate.

Not everybody sees this step of the American administration as beneficial to the well-being of the State of Israel, considering the continuous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hostility of the United Nations (UN). Anne Bayefsky, the President of Human Rights Voices and the Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, points out that on October 8, 2023, the UN Security Council met on the demand of Palestinians and did not condemn the barbaric invasion by Hamas into Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. Further, Professor Bayefsky foresees that “prior to Hamas’s disarmament, the resolution will wrest control of borders with Gaza away from Israel and hand it to the UN. The resolution creates an international force of human shields for Palestinian aggressors should Israel attempt to defend itself from Gazan assailants in the future.” UN Security Council should condemn Hamas for the October 7 atrocities and must ensure, according to the UN charter, Israel’s right to self-defense.

There are other voices that advise looking at the previous experiences of the United Nations in peacekeeping missions and to learn from the successful ones. Although it is necessary to note that the US official stressed that the International Security Force (ISF) will be an “enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force”.

John Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute, identifies three components of the successful peacekeeping mission: “a clear mandate, enough troops and the authority to act.” As an example to follow, John Spencer recounts the UN peacekeeping missions in Kosovo. The Kosovo (Stabilization) Force (KFOR) of 50,000 troops was deployed to stabilize the region, separate combatants and rebuild the government, doing this under UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

Trump’s administration ruled out the deployment of American combat troops in Gaza and is asking Muslim countries, including Indonesia, Egypt, the UAE and Turkey to send military personnel to the International Security/Stabilization Force (ISF). Although Israel already stated it will not let the Turkish soldiers close to their borders.

Let’s look at the turning points of the chain of events that start with the October 7 treacherous Hamas’s attack on Israel and the taking of 251 hostages by terrorists to Gaza. This led to enormous struggle and desire by the State of Israel and its citizens to get the hostages back from the unyielding and unwilling to negotiate Hamas. Next comes the introduction of Trump’s 20-point peace plan, with one of the points stating uncompromisingly the release of all live and murdered hostages.

Donald Trump, a dealmaker and realist, was aware that the only way to get the hostages back is to get Qatar and Turkey on his side, two countries supporting and financing Hamas and, therefore, may have a real influence on the decisions made by the terrorist organization.  And, the State of Israel and parents, brothers and sisters had received their sons, daughters, brothers and sisters back, 20 alive and as of now, 24 remains of butchered Israelis.

As in every deal, there is a price to pay for cooperation. We have here a Faustian bargain arranged with the devil, the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Qatar and Turkey. To get hostages back, Donald Trump had agreed to give Qatar, Turkey and other antagonistic to Israel Muslim countries a say in the decisions leading to ceasefire and demilitarization of Gaza.

The next event, in this chain of events, is the US presentation of a draft resolution to the UN Security Council (UNSC) to legitimize the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza as well to get approval for Trump’s peace plan. The resolution is currently being appraised by the members of the UNSC, and the voting on it is expected by November 17, 2025. The Arab League of the Muslim countries, in cooperation with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) group of states, is keeping a grip on the United Nations decision-making. Not surprisingly, the US presentation of a draft resolution to the UN Security Council was encouraged and welcomed by Muslim states.

If the US draft resolution is approved by the UNSC and the UN becomes a part of the demilitarization, reconstruction and security in Gaza, Israel is facing the possibility of biased and even hostile attitudes from United Nations membership supporting the Palestinians, including the Muslim countries which are part of the International Stabilization Force.

The above situation elevates the role of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkaff to the impartial defenders of the interests of the State of Israel and its citizens. They have a moral obligation to defend the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East.