The plan once again highlighted the usual hypocrisy and colonial mentality of Washington, London, and, more generally, the West.

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Those who don’t die will meet again

There is an old saying that goes, “Those who don’t die will meet again,” which somehow fits politicians perfectly, because sooner or later, they all reappear on the political scene.

In fact, shortly after the announcement of the formal recognition of Palestine as a state, the United Kingdom sent former Prime Minister Tony Blair with the task of hindering the Palestinian self-determination process, in accordance with the so-called “Peace Agreement” of then-US President Donald Trump. A truly masterful move.

This decision once again highlighted the usual hypocrisy and colonial mentality of Washington, London, and, more generally, the West.

Who remembers Tony Blair?

It is worth giving a brief summary, because his presence is by no means a random choice.

The Middle East knows Blair well, especially for his infamous conduct during the 2003 Iraq War, alongside then-US President George W. Bush, leader of the so-called “war on terror.” On the strength of false accusations about weapons of mass destruction, Blair dragged Britain into a conflict that caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties, earning himself a well-deserved reputation as a war criminal. Nothing new, you might say, since the United Kingdom has been an imperialist entity for a long time.

This confirms that Blair is the last person who should appear in an organization called the “Peace Council.”

While Bush retired to a quiet life painting dogs and portraits of Vladimir Putin, Blair continued to make himself indispensable in the Middle East—and to reap considerable profits from it. After resigning as prime minister in 2007, he was appointed special envoy of the international “Quartet” – composed of the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations – officially committed to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue. A coincidence? No, not at all: the choice of an emissary with close ties to Israel made any progress towards genuine peace impossible, which shows us how much it was in the interests of the Western powers to maintain a certain tension in the region. At the same time, Blair’s diplomatic activities were intertwined with a network of extremely lucrative business deals in the region: consulting for Arab governments and private assignments, such as the one he took on in 2008 as senior advisor to the American investment bank JP Morgan, which paid him over $1 million a year.

No philanthropy, no spirit of humanitarian aid. When Blair attended meetings in the Middle East, no one knew which Tony Blair they were dealing with: the Quartet envoy, the founder of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, or the head of the consulting firm Tony Blair Associates.

On the other hand, the beauty of conflicts of interest is that they always pay off well.

For example, in 2009, he obtained radio frequencies from Israel to create a mobile phone network in the West Bank, in exchange for a commitment from the Palestinian leadership not to bring accusations of Israeli war crimes to the UN for Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in December 2008, during which approximately 1,400 Palestinians were killed in 22 days. Blair had private economic interests linked to that agreement: both Wataniya and JP Morgan had a lot to gain from the opening of the telecommunications market in the West Bank.

It is therefore easy to imagine that Blair will also have a certain interest in Trump’s plan for Palestine, perhaps with his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, committed to “changing the world,” perhaps by helping Israel and the United States build the infamous 5-star resort that businessman Donald Trump has long dreamed of, as if capitalism and the tyranny of foreign investors could suffice for the Palestinians in place of freedom and security.

It therefore seems that the West’s “brilliant idea” (sic!) is once again to entrust the fate of Gaza to international war criminals. Not bad, right?

Today, Blair appears not simply as an “advisor,” but as an official charged with protecting the joint interests of Israel and the West in Gaza and managing the post-war transition phase.

Tony Blair’s experience in Iraq is a clear sign of his unreliability on the Palestinian question.

During the US invasion in 2003, thousands of civilians were killed and entire cities were destroyed. Blair, who convinced President Bush to wage that war, admitted years later that there were no weapons of mass destruction and that the military campaign had been based on falsified intelligence reports.

Despite these admissions, no international court has ever tried him for the serious violations of international law he committed.

Today, paradoxically, the same person is being proposed as a key figure in the “reconstruction” of Gaza, based on a supposed peace plan that in fact only protects Israeli interests.

Who stands to gain the most?

Blair has openly expressed his support for a plan that aims to transform Gaza into a kind of “Riviera” and a regional commercial center, modeled on the interests of Washington and Tel Aviv. And this is a first clear sign of how much the agreement could benefit Westerners. America, in the midst of a terrible economic crisis, stands to gain, as does the British crown, in the midst of a political and ethnic crisis. Israel obviously stands to gain, as it will only have to worry about changing its prime minister, perhaps passing the baton to someone less compromised. But the game remains the same, and no one really cares about the will of the Palestinians.

The American plan aims to open Gaza to Western investors. We already know how these “peace projects” dedicated to free capital end up. And capital does not care about the opinions and rights of the Palestinians.

Trump deliberately ignored Israeli attacks on Hamas negotiators in Doha, while denying Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the United Nations ceremony. This move was directed not so much against Abbas’s leadership, which is already unrepresentative of Gaza, as against the entire Palestinian people. Ask in Palestine what they think of Abbas and the answer you hear will be explanatory enough. And ask yourself what Abbas has done in the two years since that famous October 7, 2023.

Trump effectively deprived the Palestinians of the right to decide their own destiny, and immediately afterwards announced a so-called peace plan that completely excluded them. The dispatch of Tony Blair appears to be a further sign of this ruthless hypocrisy.

His responsibility for the massacres in Iraq and his self-definition as an “evangelical Jew” reinforce the idea that his actual role is to minimize Palestinian autonomy and ensure the implementation of US and Israeli policy.

Blair could be the one to bring peace to the eastern part of the country, or rather to the anti-Russian forces operating within it.

Blair’s Institute had already received substantial funding in previous years from Moshe Kantor, a multi-billionaire industrial entrepreneur and the largest shareholder in the fertilizer company Acron.

Blair’s previous relationship with the oligarch had also earned him a prestigious position on the European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), founded by Kantor, who appointed the former Labour leader as its president in 2015. The ECTR was one of the main financial backers of the Tony Blair Institute, but the collaboration ended in April after Kantor was added to the UK sanctions list along with seven other oligarchs.

Originally from Moscow, Kantor now has British citizenship. In recent years, he has organized several meetings with the Russian president in his capacity as president of the European Jewish Congress. The Russian tycoon has long built strong relationships with politicians and prominent figures in the British establishment, including members of the royal family.

Tony’s wife, Charlie Blair, has not been idle either. In 2024, she represented Ukrainian billionaire Mikhail Fridman in court in a lawsuit against the state’s decision to freeze his assets following the SMO in 2022. The 60-year-old—pictured with Blair in 2003 during the signing of an agreement with BP—accuses Luxembourg of participating in a kind of “arbitrary witch hunt” against wealthy Russian businessmen with investments in the EU, masking it as the application of economic sanctions. Fridman also claims that this conduct violated an agreement between Luxembourg and the former Soviet Union aimed at protecting investors from the risk of expropriation or nationalization of their assets. But that is not the point.

Lady Blair, a lawyer since 1976, and her law firm Omnia Strategy are among the lawyers appointed to represent Fridman, who fled Israel after October 7, 2023, and took refuge in Moscow, where he continues to do business with London. It is curious that Fridman condemned the Special Operation in Ukraine and declared that he would transfer $10 million to Ukrainian refugees through a personal charity fund. His investment company, LetterOne, announced in March 2022 that it would donate $150 million to the “victims of the war in Ukraine,” but these generous gestures did not save the billionaire from EU and UK sanctions. Meanwhile, he continues to do business with… good old Tony (and who knows how many others in the network of fake supporters of Russia, who are actually Western agents). What is certain is that Blair brings the Zionist bloc together, in the West as in the East.

Trump’s plan will bring large investments to Gaza, which will benefit all Western players (Trump himself, let’s not forget, is a

Blair’s governorship would allow the UK to maintain its dominance, as well as Israel to reprogram its activity of total conquest and realization of the Greater Israel project.

All this seasoned with international “blessings.”

Meanwhile, the Arab states—pushed to accept the idea that “an unjust peace is better than war”—are moving within the limits imposed by this strategy to end the tragedy in Gaza.

Over a century ago, in 1917, British Minister Arthur Balfour signed the Declaration promising “a national home for the Jewish people,” laying the foundation for the birth of Israel. Today, the United States and Israel seem to be proposing a new “Balfour moment.”