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Israel and the Peace Council: New Opportunities

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25.02.2026

For Israel, the emergence of the “Peace Council” represents both a new challenge and an opportunity. This concept, operating outside the UN framework, illustrates the rise of ad hoc coalitions and the dilemmas of multilateralism. For years, the UN system has failed to evolve alongside globalization. The current model no longer corresponds to today’s world.

While many have criticisms of President Trump, it must be acknowledged that he will remain in history as someone who shifted the paradigms — and the process is likely not over.

What are we witnessing? The European Union is divided, and a coalition outside the UN framework has been formed — developments that carry significant strategic implications for Israel.

The emergence of the “Peace Council,” backed by Washington, combined with a coalition of willing states operating outside the UN framework, fits into a broader transformation of international governance. This dynamic recalls the ad hoc coalition model used in Ukraine while exposing contradictions within Western and European states.

A clearly unprecedented architecture, parallel to the UN system

The Peace Council, officially designed to support the stabilization of Gaza, presents:

a potentially global mandate;

powers comparable to those of the Security Council;

governance independent from the UN system.

At the same time, the UN’s financial crisis weakens its operational role.

Taken together, these developments suggest a shift toward parallel crisis-management mechanisms, at a time when the international system has largely demonstrated its impotence in the face of a Security Council permanently blocked by competing interests.

Gaza has become the laboratory for a new intervention model

What the framework means:

An international stabilization force

20,000 international troops;

disarmament of Hamas;

maintenance of public order.

International administrative governance

An Executive........

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