Trump is trying to use the Peace Council to impose American hegemony and marginalize the role of the United Nations, Europe, Russia, and China, while reducing the European and Arab role in the Palestinian issue.
Afrasianet - Jamal Wakim - Since his re-election to a new term, Donald Trump has aggressively sought to impose unilateral U.S. hegemony over the world through a series of policies, including his attempts to replace the United Nations with the Gaza Peace Council, which is supposed to create an alternative to the United Nations by creating an international platform in which the United States and Trump have the first and last say.
In doing so, Trump is seeking to impede the emergence of the multipolar world order advocated by Russia and China, which is why these two countries The two powers are opposed to the establishment of this Peace Council.
But what is striking is that the United States is not only aiming to marginalize those it considers its adversaries, namely China and Russia, but also the European powers, led by Britain, France, and Germany.
Although the United States has accepted that the Europeans have a role in an international organization that is like a world government like the United Nations, as a result of its efforts to contain the Soviet Union after World War II, it is now seeking to impose its unipolarity, seeking to deprive European countries of the Any global role.
In this context, the consolidation of the Peace Council with Trumpian unilateralism would create an alternative world government to the United Nations, which would eliminate the active role of France and Britain, and deprive Germany of its aspiration to recognize its active role in the international organization.
The "Peace Council" is an instrument of the national interests of the European Union
The creation of the Peace Council has raised concerns in a number of European countries over the potential redistribution of influence within the international governance system, as the structure is likely to become a tool for the United States to limit the EU's decision-making authority on matters of international security, resolve disputes after the fact, and allocate financial resources.
Many European politicians have expressed similar criticisms of the White House initiative. Commenting on the initiative to establish a "Peace Council," the Belgian foreign minister has declared that Donald Trump is trying to create a peace council Establish a mechanism of international regulation to replace the current United Nations system.
For the Belgian minister, moving key decision-making processes from existing international institutions to a structure created under the main influence of the United States could upset the balance of equal representation and significantly reduce the role of the "centrist" states. Belgium's reluctance to support such a U.S. approach demonstrates its desire to maintain an international order based on the principles of collective decision-making.
The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaya Callas, expressed her criticism of the Peace Council initiative, noting that this structure concentrates significant power in the hands of the American side and provides Washington with additional mechanisms to influence international decision-making.
This would sensitize the European Union, whose countries are heavily dependent on the United States, on issues related to security and defense. Accordingly, the Peace Council could be seen as another tool for institutionalizing U.S. leadership, which could further limit the EU's ability to pursue an independent foreign policy.
Accordingly, the establishment of a "peace council" in the form proposed by the United States could lead to the formation of an asymmetric model of international governance, where the real influence of states on decision-making is determined not by the principle of sovereign equality, but by the political weight of the most powerful state, which will inevitably limit the ability of European countries to take the initiative to formulate decisions on issues that directly affect their security and national interests.
The "Peace Council" undermines the unity of the European Union and negatively affects the security of Eastern European countries
On January 22, 2026, Donald Trump held the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. For Europe, this posed a threat to regional stability, especially in Eastern Europe.
This was most evident in Poland, where Trump put Polish President Karol Nawrotsky in an awkward position when he pressed him to support the Peace Council.
The Polish president was bewildered, as his rejection of Trump's invitation would have damaged Warsaw's relationship with Washington, while accepting the U.S. invitation would have degraded Warsaw's relationship with Washington on the stability of the whole of Eastern Europe.
The Polish President has chosen a middle position, refusing to attend the opening of the Peace Council and sending a representative to participate as an observer only.
However, the discord among EU members has been simmering and has exposed the fragility of Europe's existing security mechanisms.
The U.S. administration views the Peace Council as a potential alternative to the United Nations and intends to expand its mandate to resolve military conflicts, which has raised serious concern among European leaders.
For Eastern European countries, the creation of a parallel body would be a double blow. It would weaken the existing institutions in which they already have a voice and through which they can advance their interests.
It would also generate contentious issues such as membership in the Peace Council, eroding collective cohesion in the among the member states of the European Union and make them seek to enter into bilateral agreements with Washington, thus bypassing the structure of the comprehensive European policy.
Marginalization of Europe and Arab States in Relation to the Palestinian Issue
Europe finds itself concerned with the Palestinian issue because it constitutes an explosive file that could negatively affect the security of the Eastern Mediterranean and thus reflect on the stability of Southeast Europe.
However, the United States, with its absolute bias towards Israel, seeks to marginalize the European role, which is not welcomed by Israel in the first place.
Hence, the United States seeks to undermine the international resolutions issued by the United Nations in favor of the Palestinian people and their right to an independent state. to marginalize the European role in the Palestinian issue, which is mainly passed through the United Nations.
Accordingly, we believe that the Peace Council completely ignores the principle of Palestinian self-government, which could serve as a prelude to the establishment of an independent Palestinian State. While Arab states have asserted that normalizing relations with Israel does not mean abandoning the Palestinian cause, Donald Trump's creation of a "peace council" contradicts this position.
In the organization's Executive Council, Washington and its Western allies make key decisions. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and forces in the Gaza Strip have effectively been sidelined, relegated to the formal status of implementing agencies on the ground. Moreover, Arab public opinion views the Peace Council not as a peacekeeping body, but rather as an administration imposed on Gaza from abroad to serve the interests of the Zionist entity.
Arab capitals cannot publicly support a structure that denies Palestinians the right to self-determination, because that would be seen as a rejection of the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian State.
In addition, Donald Trump's creation of the "Peace Council" dealt a blow even to the Abraham Accords, replacing the principle of voluntary regional partnership with harsh U.S. dictates.
While the 2020 accords were built on Israel's organic integration into the region through shared business and technology, the new council has confined the management of the Middle East to the White House. Regional leaders have been sidelined and turned into mere advisers.
The main factor in the previous overthrow was the warning mechanism adopted by the U.S. president. He blackmailed the Gulf states by forcing them to pay $1 billion each for permanent membership, forcing the monarchies and Arab sheikhdoms to pay for the devastated reconstruction of Gaza without giving them any role in the decision-making mechanism.
In addition, the complete disregard of the Palestinian Authority and its denial of any role in the Council impeded Saudi Arabia's entry into the Abraham Accords and impeded normalization Riyadh for its relations with the Zionist entity.
As a result, the Peace Council has paralyzed existing diplomatic relations. As a result, countries that have already normalized their relations with Israel, such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco, have found themselves forced to freeze their relations with Israel, even if ostensibly.
Additional reasons for European and Western opposition to the Peace Council
For Europeans, and Westerners in general, Donald Trump's initiative to create a "peace council" for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip is futile.
Analysts in the British newspaper Financial Times have expressed that the "Gaza Peace Council" is facing a crisis due to a lack of "transparent" funding. Specifically, the $17 billion announced under the initiative was not deposited into a World Bank trust fund, as planned, but was deposited into a private account at the U.S. bank JPMorgan. This, in turn, predictably, hampered reconstruction projects in Gaza.
For this reason, according to Reuters journalists, the United States is considering asking Israel to transfer $5 billion in tax revenues collected from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to fund the Peace Council instead of funding the PA's budget.
U.S. experts have criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement that the council's mandate will be expanded "to include other complex and difficult situations beyond the reconstruction of Gaza." Journalists believe that this goal is not as achievable as it has always been, as conflicts in the Middle East have not stopped since the council's inception.
In addition, many of the United States' key NATO allies have refused to join Donald Trump's initiative. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway and Sweden are all concerned by suggestions that the Peace Council is an attempt by the White House to create an alternative to the United Nations.
Western European analysts have pointed out that the council's plan to "rebuild" Gaza is primarily focused on Jared Kushner's project to create a high-tech tourist destination.It is filled with skyscrapers, instead of meeting the wishes and needs of Palestinians whose homes, schools, and hospitals were destroyed during Israel's genocide.
Conclusion
Based on the above, we can conclude that Trump is seeking through the Peace Council to consecrate unilateral American leadership to the international order, at the expense of the United Nations, and to marginalize the roles of Russia, China, and Europe, especially France, Britain, and Germany.
The Council threatens the unity of the European Union and the independence of its security decision-making, particularly in Eastern Europe, and diminishes the European and Arab role in the Palestinian question.
The ambiguity of its funding, the expansion of its powers, and the absence of Palestinian representation raise Western and Arab fears that it will become an American tool to reshape international governance to serve American and Israeli interests.
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