At the end of last May, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), a powerful thought center that also works as an international consultant and gives it a name, published a survey that almost went unnoticed. TBI had commissioned the democopic company Zogby Research Services to ask the Palestinians what future they wanted. A total of 1,435 of them participated in the field work; 426 in Gaza, 759 in the West Bank and 250 in East Jerusalem. The results disassembled many prejudices.
Just 4% of the Palestinians wanted Hamas to continue to rule the Gaza Strip. Nine out of ten Gazatis blamed that organization of their current situation. For a possible autonomous government in Gaza, 35% wanted to return power to the Palestinian authority and its current president, Mahmud Abbas. 27% preferred to take the reins an international transition coalition.
And again it has risen in the region (the group composed of the UN, the EU, the United States and Russia). His task never produced concrete results, but serious doubts in the critics of the former prime minister, who suspected that he had used the position to promote his own interests.
In recent weeks, as several British media have revealed, Blair has personally argued with US President Donald Trump, which would include the idea of a Palestinian transition government supervised by an international authority.
Blair has a close relationship with Trump’s son -in -law, Jared Kushner, who in addition to his real estate businesses has performed mediation tasks for the Republican President in the Middle East. which normalized Israel’s relationship with Arab countries such as United Arab Emirates or Baréin in Trump’s first mandate. Kushner, like his father -in -law, also has interests in the construction and real estate promotion business.
Blair and Kushner met with the president at the end of August to expose a post-scratch plan that had been working for some time. It was about rebuilding a region devastated by the Israeli offensive and starting to design a new government that discarded the participation of Hamas. which would mean the displacement of more than two million gazatis and the conversion of the strip into a new Las Vegas in the purest Trump style, caused international scandal and rejection.
The Tony Blair Institute immediately unmarked a proposal that had all the signs of a book genocide. But the former prime minister, who has never wanted to give up displaying his influence both in British domestic policy and in the international stage, continued to promote and sponsor his own plans for Gaza before the White House.
The newspaper Financial Times He suggests, citing sources that know the details of the project in which Washington works, which Blair has allegedly requested to be part of the future International Supervision Committee. One of those sources has even indicated that the former British prime minister has been proposed to preside over the so -called Gaza International Transitional Authority. TBI sources have decided, in the name of Blair, not make any comment regarding this information.
Trump wanted to have the participation of Arab countries in the design of a future plan for Gaza, and has partially admitted his reluctance to any future government is only of an international nature, due to the delegitimizing effect it would have on the Palestinian cause itself. Therefore, the proposed ideas would include, according to various sources, a Palestinian committee supervised by an international authority.
Blair’s participation runs the risk of struggling the revolts waters of the British left, which never forgave the politician that same left is the one that today criticizes Starmer to Starmer his initial warmth in the response to the tragedy of Gaza and his indisimulated follow -up of Trump and his policies. The story is repeated, and a former prime minister resurfaces to whom he accused himself precisely of the same thing: of a commitment to countercurrent for preserving the “special relationship” with Washington, at the expense of soliviating his own voters.
In recent years, the task displayed by the TBI has focused on challenges such as climate change, artificial intelligence or digitalization of citizen identification systems. The institution has been associated with the philanthropic organizations of technological giants such as the Larry Ellison Foundation (the creator of the Giant Oracle) or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to launch provocative, but interesting political proposals, which have had the attention of the Starmer government. Recently, to abandon the catastrophist tone, and recover nuclear energy as an indispensable complement to renewables. Shortly after, Downing Street announced a multimillionaire investment in new centrals.
