Decent analysis from KD of the diplomatic clusterf*** at the UN. Good to see Russia doing something vaguely useful on this for a change:





'As the US prepares to present the UN Security Council with a ham peace plan for Gaza, Russia just pulled a fast one on them all.
Right, so the United States is walking into the Security Council tomorrow pretending it’s about to unveil a peace plan, when everyone who’s read the documents knows it’s a colour-coded land grab dressed up as diplomacy. They’re calling it stabilisation, which is an interesting choice of wording when the map splits Gaza into a green zone Israel gets to rebuild and police, and a red zone where more than two million Palestinians get penned in like cattle with no reconstruction at all. And they’re pushing it fast, hoping to get a vote in before anyone joins the dots between that map and Israeli ministers openly saying there will never be a Palestinian state and that Gaza will be “cleared” indefinitely. Russia’s already thrown its own text into the pile though, it’s own rival peace plan so the whole show is finished before they even file into the room. Tomorrow isn’t a peace discussion. It’s the moment the containment map the US have tried to smuggle through gets held up to the light — and you can see exactly what it is.'