'Beyond Orwellian': Netizens slam US-drafted UNSC resolution on so-called 'Gaza peace plan'

Social media users erupt in outrage after the UN Security Council passes a US-drafted resolution calling for an “international force” in Gaza to pursue “demilitarization” and dismantle resistance infrastructure despite ongoing Israeli occupation and atrocities.

The UNSC on Monday adopted the resolution to establish the so-called International Stabilization Force (ISF) in the coastal sliver.

The force, reportedly to be formed by the United States, Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt, would operate under the pretext of reconstruction and security. Critics have, however, say that a proposal forwarded by US President Donald Trump that includes the force’s deployment ignores the core issues of Israeli occupation, accountability for war crimes, and Palestinians’ right to self-determination and compensation.

“The UNSC resolution is kind of beyond Orwellian. It's comical. It's like a parody of Orwellian,” Sam Husseini, an American writer and political activist, campaigning to expose the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza among other things, wrote on X. By Orwellian, he was referring to the dark and oppressive world portrayed by George Orwell, especially in his novel 1984.

‘US-Israel colonial outrage’

Human rights lawyer and former UN official Craig Mokhiber described the resolution as “horrific,” lamenting that not a single council member had the courage, principle, or respect for international law to vote against it.

He described Trump’s 20-point proposal, which the US president claims is aimed at ending the Israeli genocide in Gaza that began in October 2023, as a “US-Israel colonial outrage.”

“This proposal has been rejected by Palestinian civil society and factions, and defenders of human rights and international law everywhere.”

Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement has agreed to hand over all the remaining Israeli captives in the territory and even transfer Gaza’s administration to a Palestinian body, obligations it has astutely stood by so far and vows to fully fulfill, despite the proposal’s sheer failure to exact commitments on the part of Tel Aviv.

Mokhiber said Monday would mark “a day of shame” for the countries kneeling before “the US empire and its violent Israeli client,” but expressed certainty that “the struggle for Palestinian freedom will continue undeterred, with or without them.”

Palestinian university professor Sami al-Arian called the deployment authorized by the resolution “imperialism by another name,” saying, “Freedom and self-determination are not gifted. They are earned through steadfastness and resistance.”

Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha, who has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary on sufferings of Palestinians, scoffed at the council for failing to demand a ceasefire for two years, but rushing to pass “a US plan to administer (occupy) Gaza.”

Omar Hamad, another Palestinian writer, regretted that slivers of hope among Palestinians for peace are always dashed by Washington and Tel Aviv in the most gruesome manner.

“Every time hope grows within us, they come with their knives and slaughter us in every possible way.”

Pro-Palestinian activist and analyst Robert Inlakesh called the scheme a “violent regime change” drive.

Noted Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah criticized Russia and China for abstaining in the face of the resolution instead of vetoing it.

US-based scholar Assal Rad said the council had failed at everything it was created to do “unless it was created to give legitimacy to imperialism.”

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink peace activism body, denounced the UNSC for providing “universal approval” to the US to employ a so-called “peace plan” in Gaza, despite Washington having served as the main supplier of the weapons with which the Israeli regime has been waging the genocide.

Journalist Ahmed Eldin condemned the council for “blessing the US occupation of Gaza,” through the deployment of troops to disarm Palestinians. He also lambasted the Trump proposal’s seeking to mandate a so-called “Board of Peace,” which would be tasked with overseeing an interim authority of technocrats to govern Gaza, as well as the proposal’s mandating Israeli withdrawal only after Palestinian resistance fighters’ “surrender.”

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