{"id":32387,"date":"2025-10-05T00:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32387"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:04:42","slug":"mike-waltz-sees-trumps-gaza-plan-as-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32387","title":{"rendered":"Mike Waltz sees Trump\u2019s Gaza plan as \u2018once-in-a-generation opportunity for peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said he believes President Donald Trump\u2019s new Gaza peace plan could represent a \u2018once-in-a-generation opportunity for Middle East peace.\u2019
\nOn Monday, Trump released his Gaza peace plan, which Israel agreed to. Despite U.S. criticism of the U.N.\u2019s actions in Gaza, the plan relies on the international body\u2019s assistance. When asked how this would work, Waltz said that the U.S., while working with the U.N. in Gaza, will \u2018continue to call it out\u2019 and will \u2018demand reforms.\u2019
\nIn an interview with Fox News Digital, Waltz highlighted a key issue with the U.N.: aid delivery in Gaza. The U.N.\u2019s numbers show that nearly 90% of its aid trucks were intercepted by armed groups or crowds of hungry people between May 19 and Aug. 5. The U.S. has pointed to Hamas as the main culprit, saying operatives of the terrorist organization steal the aid to make money by selling it.
\n\u2018We can\u2019t have a situation where U.N. agencies \u2014 the U.S. pays for about a quarter of their costs \u2014 are actually delivering aid in a way that Hamas takes it over. Hamas uses it to make money reselling it on the black market,\u2019 Waltz told Fox News Digital.
\nThe U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been heavily criticized by the U.N., said on Friday that it had delivered more than 178 million meals since starting its operation in May.<\/p>\n

Waltz hit the ground running after his appointment to the role on Sept. 19, just days before the international body held its \u2018High-level Week.\u2019 During that week, leaders from around the world, including Trump, addressed fellow member states in New York City.
\nTrump has made it clear that his goal is to be a peacemaker, something Waltz emphasized during his sit-down with Fox News Digital. However, that doesn\u2019t mean he isn\u2019t bringing his own experience to the role.
\n\u2018Green Berets are called \u2018warrior diplomats.\u2019 We often have a big stick behind us,\u2019 Waltz, who was the first Green Beret elected to Congress, told Fox News Digital.
\nHe compared this ethos to Trump\u2019s handling of Iran over the summer.
\n\u2018He gave them opportunity after opportunity to walk away from a weaponized nuclear program, to handover their enriched materials, to engage in diplomacy and when they didn\u2019t, our amazing B-2s went and took it out,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Waltz said he was looking to follow Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s visions to carry out America First policies and \u2018make the U.N. great again.\u2019 He said the institution had moved away from its roots and was not acting as a place where everyone from around the world could work out issues, but the U.S. is looking to bring that back.
\nThe other major priority for the U.S. at the U.N., according to Waltz, is to get rid of \u2018the bloat.\u2019
\n\u2018Like any bureaucracy over 80 years, it has gotten too big, too bureaucratic, and therefore less effective. So I\u2019m not going to say that we\u2019re going to pull the DOGE up here, but we definitely need to make some cuts,\u2019 he told Fox News Digital.
\nWaltz pointed to a recent vote on Haiti as an example of the U.S. working to achieve results at the U.N. As a former congressman from Florida, he noted that the lawlessness in Haiti has spilled onto U.S. shores. However, Waltz believes the U.N.-backed gang-suppression force will restore law and order, without making the U.S. foot the bill.
\n\u2018In line with what the president has demanded, we\u2019re going to share the burden,\u2019 Waltz said. \u2018Other countries are involved. Kenya has taken the lead, El Salvador is taking a key role. Other countries are paying for it. It\u2019s not just all on the United States\u2019 shoulders.\u2019
\nWaltz acknowledged Americans\u2019 skepticism about the U.N., but he argued that it\u2019s essential for the world\u2019s leaders to meet on U.S. soil, and for Washington to remain at the table. He also pointed to the growing influence of international bodies on the American economy through regulation.
\n\u2018There\u2019s all these international bodies that can directly affect our economy and our way of life that touch aviation and how we fly around the world, space, telecommunications, radio, data,\u2019 he said. \u2018And just as we fight for deregulation in our own federal government, we certainly don\u2019t want global overregulation on many of our industries.\u2019
\nWaltz stressed that staying engaged globally is critical to protecting U.S. interests and preventing bad actors from filling the void.
\n\u2018We have to say engaged, I think, to fight for the values that we hold dear. And if anything, this president is a fighter. We\u2019re going to keep fighting for our way of life,\u2019 Waltz said.<\/p>\n

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