US president Donald Trump will head a so-called board of peace that will supervise an international stabilisation force in Gaza. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council on Monday night, aimed at turning the precarious Gaza ceasefire into a real peace plan, is one of the oddest in UN history.
It puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”, which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years.
No one knows who else will be on the board of peace – only that it will, as Trump declared on social media, “be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World”.
The board will report to the security council but will n
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