by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, December 1, 2025
The November 18 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval of the Trump Administration and Zionist Israel drafted “peace plan,” Resolution 2803, effectively transfers the administration and occupation of colonized and occupied Palestine to the imperialist U.S. and Israel.
The vote, 13-0, with two abstentions from China and Russia, legitimizes the U.S.-backed Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people. It unequivocally places the UN on the side of the Israeli-U.S. colonial project. It violates all preceding resolutions, actions and legal interpretations that delegitimize colonialism in general and support the right of Palestinians and all colonized people to resist, including with arms.
But these UN “principles” exist on paper only. They have been ignored with impunity given that any transgression can only be enforced with a unanimous UNSC vote.
UN’s Unanimous Vote to Further Enslave Palestine
By this UNANIMOUS UN vote two million Palestinians are now UN mandated to submit to living in concentration camps on less than half the landmass they were originally confined to in Gaza before the recent Israeli attack, not to mention the historic UN-backed colonization/partition of Palestine that was similarly legitimized when the Russian Stalinists voted for the 1948 Palestine partition that originally established the racist, Zionist, colonial, settler state of Israel.
This newly revamped and shrunken Palestinian prison house for oppressed and colonized Palestinians is to be administered by an “International Stabilization Force” controlled by the U.S. and Israel!
A Trump‑headed “Board of Peace” and the “International Stabilization Force” is to operate in consultation with Israel to oversee the now UN-sponsored project.
That the resolution was passed in the context of a U.S.-Zionist genocide that slaughtered 67,000 Palestinians informs us once again that the United Nations exists as nothing less than the usually blunt instrument of world imperialism, including its lesser players, Russia and China, than a world body aimed at resolution of major world conflicts.
945 UN’s Colonial History
Indeed, the UN, formed in 1945, reflected the post-WWII world relationship of forces following the defeat of fascist Germany by the combined forces of the then Soviet Union, the U.S. and England. At that moment in history, the Soviet Union, the major military adversary and victor over Hitler’s Nazis Germany, and having lost some 27 million people in the war – almost more than the combined losses of the rest of the world – was embarked, under the leadership of Russian Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, on a policy of “peaceful coexistence” with world imperialism.
The Stalin counterrevolutionary leadership had scrapped much of the historic gains and revolutionary program of the great 1917 Russian Revolution some two decades earlier. The USSR’s “peaceful coexistence” with world imperialism was further codified with the UN’s founding, including agreements that the then colonial world order would remain largely intact. This included British and French imperialism’s colonial empire. Such were the wartime and post-WWII agreements reached by the victors at the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam.
The November 18, 2025 UN unanimous agreement is a violent throwback to this monstrous period in history when colonialism was formally ratified by the victorious world powers.
U.S. imperialism and its client state Zionist Israel now have the UN’s authority to finish their slaughter and continue to decimate the Palestinian masses should they resist. And, if any nations dared to lend aide to the Palestinian struggle, the imperialist beast will no doubt invoke the UN to justify their violent repression.
U.S. World’s Chief Imperialist Power
Today, this U.S. imperialist beast, with troops in 110 countries stationed on 1100 military bases, ranks first in the world in engineering domination and repression against the world’s people. By comparison imperialist China and Russia, surrounded by U.S. bases, have but a handful of military bases outside its borders, with China but one and Russia, six, mostly in its former republics.
US wars of intended conquest and exploitation in El Salvador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Grenada, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Korea, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Libya, to name a few, are the stock in trade of U.S. imperialism. Today this includes Ukraine, where a 2014 U.S.-abetted and fascist-led coup replaced the elected government and proceeded to slaughter all those who resisted, especially the Russian-speaking population in the east. [See Socialist Action booklet, “Ukraine in Turmoil” for a detailed account.]
U.S. Wars Against Working People at Home and Abroad
Today and yesterday’s U.S. wars abroad are matched by the ever-deepening attacks on working people at home, from the mass ICE and National Guard racist deportations, to the de-industrialization of the country, the cheap or free labor common to the prison-industrial complex, systemic racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination.
At the center of all these monstrous policies, inherent in the capitalist-imperialist system, is a bi-partisan political regime that exists to advance the interests of an elite ruling class, the one percent who rule at the expense of the vast majority of the U.S. and world’s people.
Challenging this system in its entirety via the democratically organized and massive actions of the working class and its allies among the oppressed and exploited lies at the core of Socialist Action’s reason for existence.
*Featured Image: Hamas Rejects UN Security Council Resolution Authorizing Security Force in Gaza. Src: FDD, Defense of Democracies, hostile to Hamas
Jeff Mackler is the National Secretary, Socialist Action, December 1, 2025