Pure evil.

There were no other words I could conjure on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 innocents, raped an untold number, ravaged entire villages in southern Israel and took 251 hostages back to Gaza — including American citizens, women, children and the elderly.

Three years later, the terrorists and their Iranian patrons have definitively failed.

The hostages are home.

The Abraham Accords are accelerating.

Regional partners are helping shape Gaza’s future.

And thanks to President Donald Trump, the same United Natons that was part of the problem in 2023 now has an opportunity — indeed, a mandate — to be part of the solution.

The UN’s moral inversion in the wake of Oct. 7 was surreal.

Senior leaders trafficked in caveats, equivocation, legitimization and delay — all while failing to rein in the special rapporteurs whose “independent expertise” they routinely invoke.

Take Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinan territories who rationalized Oct. 7 as a response to Israeli “oppression” — then used her UN role to target American companies like Microsoft, Caterpillar and Palantir for doing business in Israel.

Or consider Reem Alsalem, the rapporteur charged with combating violence against women, who denied that rape even occurred during the Hamas onslaught.

Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng, ostensibly focused on health, declared that “Hamas are not terrorists” and defended the legitimacy of its “armed struggle,” while other rapporteurs led demands for arms embargoes, economic blockades and sanctions against Israel.

All this after employees from UNRWA (the UN agency entrusted with aiding Palestinians) participated in the horrors of Oct. 7.

This was the moral absurdity: While innocent hostages from Israel and roughly 25 other UN member states were still being starved and beaten underground in Gaza, parts of the institution founded to promote peace and human rights were parroting Hamas’ talking points and denying the nature of the atrocities.

They falsely attacked Israel and its partners, and confidently predicted that the regional peace architecture President Trump had built would collapse.

The world’s “experts” were wrong about all of it.

They were poor historians, but even worse prophets: The Abraham Accords survived Oct. 7, the Gaza war and the conflict with Iran.

Better yet, they are still expanding.

Hamas and its Iranian backers were wrong, too.

The Oct. 7 attacks were meant to fracture Israel from the region and breathe new life into Tehran’s Axis of Terror.

They backfired spectacularly: New governments in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are casting off the Iranian yoke and turning Westward, and Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” is in shambles.

Just this summer I visited various allies in the Gulf.

At the height of the conflict with Iran, I sat in a restaurant in Abu Dhabi and heard Hebrew from diners at nearby tables — while Israeli Iron Dome batteries and personnel were helping defend Emirati skies from Iranian missiles.

A generation ago, that scene would have been impossible.

The same might be said of our efforts here at the UN, where we just convened members of the Abraham Accords for their first reunion since the first Trump administration.

The next day we hosted a ministerial summit between Morocco and Israel, where the two nations agreed to expand direct flights, elevate their diplomatic missions to embassies and move forward on new investment and tax agreements.

Those once-unlikely regional partnerships have given us a way forward in Gaza, where it once seemed there were only two options — Hamas could rule Gaza and continue its terror, or the IDF could stay in Gaza indefinitely.

President Trump put forward a third option: bring the hostages home, keep Hamas out of government, demilitarize Gaza, establish a technocratic Palestinian administration and bring Arab and international partners along for security and reconstruction.

We took that to the United Nations, where Security Council Resolution 2803 passed without opposition.

It endorsed the president’s plan, welcomed the Board of Peace and authorized an International Stabilization Force to secure Gaza, support vetted Palestinian police, protect civilians and humanitarian operations and prevent terrorist infrastructure from being rebuilt.

The results are now measurable.

All 251 hostages are home, and the cease-fire, while tenuous, has held.

The Board of Peace has 28 member countries, the ISF has completed its pre-deployment assessment and $17 billion has been pledged for reconstruction.

Much work remains, including the full decommissioning of Hamas and other armed groups — but there is now a framework where none existed before.

Oct. 7 was meant to destroy the possibility of a different Middle East.

Many within the UN accepted that premise; some even propagated it — staining the good work that can be done under its auspices.

In the 1,096 days that followed, President Trump has proved those voices wrong at every turn, corralling even naysaying institutions like the UN to advance what was once thought impossible in the Middle East: peace.

Mike Waltz is the US ambassador to the United Nations.