by Amal Zadok
Tony Blair’s emergence at the heart of the new “Board of Peace” for Gaza marks not the return of a statesman, but of political regurgitate—vomited up from a gutter of war crimes, deceptions, and colonial hubris. Instead of retreating into the infamy earned by his legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Blair now attaches himself to President Donald Trump’s latest imperial project, propped up by Benjamin Netanyahu’s apartheid policy and Jared Kushner’s real estate ambitions. Together, this axis plots what amounts to the final grave robbery of a battered Palestine, formalized as Gaza’s “reconstruction”—a luxury enclave built atop ruin and mass graves.
Gaza as Investment: Blood as Collateral
Trump’s 20- and 21-point postwar plans for Gaza, revealed in September 2025, showcase overt imperial intent. At their center sits Blair, whom Trump lauds as “a good man,” tipped to lead or coordinate a transitional authority over Gaza’s wounded society. Under this plan, a “Board of Peace” would direct Gaza’s recovery and establish conditions for “future self-determination”—while every lever of practical power remains in U.S., Israeli, and select Arab hands (BBC News, 2025a; Times of Israel, 2025; Al Jazeera, 2025a).
The proposed “Gaza Riviera” is necro-liberalism realized: beachfront property schemes fronted by Kushner, with international developers already preparing bids (New Daily, 2025). Humanitarian aid is funneled through foreign agencies, bypassing grassroots Palestinian control. The population is told to cooperate, and “relocation” is discussed openly—a policy reminiscent of historic forced displacement (Al Jazeera, 2025a).
America’s blueprint—outlined in leaked texts and official releases—calls for assembling experts who built modern cities elsewhere in the Gulf. The local future is to be engineered by global investment partnerships, lured by special tariff deals and an unprecedented “special economic zone.” Security is strictly controlled by Israel, Egypt, and the U.S., with Palestinian freedom of movement mostly rhetorical (Times of Israel, 2025; Wikipedia, 2025).
This vision includes luxury resorts, a new port, and “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zones.” The reconstruction is immense: more than 50 million tons of debris, with infrastructure to be rebuilt in phases—initial temporary shelter followed by years of industrial and tourist development, requiring $53 billion or more (Le Monde, 2025; UN, 2025).
Blair: From Regurgitated War Crimes to Gaza Overseer
Blair’s record is infamous. His role in misleading the UK into the Iraq War, condemned by the Chilcot Inquiry, left devastation that fueled regional instability (Radio New Zealand, 2025; New York Times, 2025a). As Quartet envoy on Palestine, Blair was marked by “soundbites over substance,” with critics noting his tenure coincided with intensifying sieges and expanding settlements (BBC News, 2025a).
Blair’s appointment as Gaza’s “international overseer” draws near-universal condemnation. British and Palestinian officials alike regard him as “toxic” and “untrustworthy” (New York Times, 2025a; Radio New Zealand, 2025). The history of failed diplomacy and deep complicity with occupation now repeats as he resumes his role as consultant to empire—offering legitimacy and a veneer of respectability to external control (Reuters, 2025).
Numerous analyses of Blair’s prior interventions judge them “catastrophic,” noting that his actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine deepened occupation rather than fostering peace (BBC News, 2025a; New York Times, 2025a). Palestinians see him as emblematic of a long colonial legacy—a figure who returns only to erase, never to rebuild.
Empire’s Quartet: Profit, Power, and Erasure
Trump’s promised “peace” is colonialism repackaged. Trump claims liberation while coordinating with Netanyahu, whose regime depends on withholding Palestinian autonomy, and Kushner, who treats Gaza’s trauma as “real estate opportunity” (BBC News, 2025b; New York Times, 2025b). Investment is prioritized for external stakeholders, not the dispossessed; every skyscraper and tech hub is mapped onto the remnants of Palestinian life (Carnegie Endowment, 2025).
Policing and “stabilization” will be managed by an international force: select Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians, all vetted and coordinated under the board’s supervision. Yet Israel retains ultimate security authority, with rights to intervene if it feels “threatened” (The Conversation, 2025). Palestinian governance under this scheme is nominal—transitional technocrats with little democratic mandate, significant only as long as their priorities align with outside powers.
This roadmap turns Gaza into an experiment in disaster capitalism: exclusion of local voices, preference for foreign profit, and reduction of survivors to objects of resettlement or inconvenience (Carnegie Endowment, 2025). Lavish promises of investment mask the forced erasure, displacement, and denial of self-determination that define the plan.
International Reactions and Arab Proposals
Arab and European states propose alternatives—especially Egypt’s $53 billion recovery plan, emphasizing keeping Palestinians in Gaza while establishing a technocratic governance committee (UN, 2025; Wikipedia, 2025). The Trump administration rebuffs these, portraying Gaza as “uninhabitable” until depopulation occurs. Should Palestinian compliance be achieved, the Palestinian Authority may be allowed to return; if not, foreign trusteeship endures. Skepticism persists among Gulf states and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, wary that reconstruction funding may only invite future episodes of destruction (Wikipedia, 2025).
The Verdict: From Vomit, Only More Filth
Blair’s presence is a double insult—layered atop the long injustice of occupation. Trump, Netanyahu, Kushner, and their coterie tout “prosperity” and “recovery,” but deliver graveyard sovereignty: citizenship in name, dispossession in fact. Every charitable gesture conceals an ultimatum—surrender, displacement, erasure.
Gaza needs no more foreign overseers, failed statesmen, or disaster profiteers. What it demands, and deserves, is the right to determine its own fate, to rebuild, and to mourn its dead without their memory being washed away by the architects of erasure.
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