Handing control of Gaza to a Trump-run “board” for two years cut across longstanding UN principles of self-determination and national sovereignty and against colonialism. It was also vaguer than any other UN peacekeeping resolution in modern times.

Nonetheless, the Arab world and Europe decided to vote for the resolution once wording had been added to at least give lip-service to a future sovereign Palestinian state. It was the best way, their diplomats argued at the time, to keep Trump engaged in Gaza, with the hope of achieving a durable peace.

Trump suggested a plan that was basically “TBD” and the UN voted for it (definitely for reasons that would stand on their own merits and not to gain favor!). Sounds like it’s doing exactly what it proposed which is whatever Trump feels like doing (at least whatever IL will let him do in the case of Palestine).