Dictator-loving former UK prime minister and at-large war criminal Tony Blair has a green light to implement his postwar plans for Gaza. The Times of Israel reported Thursday 18 September that Blair has US president Donald Trump’s permission to lobby regional and global allies.
Multiple undisclosed sources told the paper Blair had been told to:
…rally regional and international stakeholders around the former UK prime minister’s proposal to establish a postwar transitional body to govern the Gaza Strip until it can be handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
The Times said Blair had started crafting the plan early in the genocide. It has since evolved into a fuller framework for “effectively ending the war”:
…as the Trump administration has reached the conclusion that agreement from major stakeholders regarding the body that will replace Hamas in Gaza is essential for securing a permanent ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Blair meets Trump
Blair reportedly attended a White House policy session on the plans in late August 2025. The Times has seen a draft of the report:
Previous reporting has linked Blair to efforts aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza or at building a “Trump Riviera” in the Strip, but the former British premier’s actual proposal makes no mention of those ideas and even envisions the establishment of a “Property Rights Preservation Unit,” aimed at ensuring that any voluntary departure of Gazans does not compromise their right to return to the enclave or retain property ownership.
Trump’s son Jared Kushner attended the same meeting. Kushner previously touted Gaza as a potential real estate investment zone.
In March 2024, Kushner said:
Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods.
The Butcher of Baghdad’s latest scheme
The Times cited an anonymous ‘US official’ who said:
This spring, Kushner commissioned the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) — which was already engaged on the issue thanks to the former UK prime minister’s ties with Israeli, PA and Arab leaders — to come up with a postwar plan…
TBI has long served as a front for Blair’s ambitions and his regular (often unwelcome) public interventions. As the PM who led Britain into the illegal Iraq War, Blair is a pariah in his own country.
Along with the eternal stain that the disastrous invasion of Iraq left on his time in power, his domestic record speaks for itself. Because his government used token progressive policies to hide its true right-wing nature.
It abandoned and ignored working-class communities (along with Labour members and trade unions); continued financial deregulation to please wealthy elites; kick-started the privatisation of the NHS; propped up the very structures which created the capitalist crisis of 2007–2008; and lost five million voters between 1997 and 2010.
His government left people across Britain with a lack of trust in politics; and this helped to spark the disenchantment that fuelled the Brexit vote, with many people perceiving overwhelmingly that living standards had been deteriorating for decades.
But we’ll leave the final word to Maggie Thatcher, who once said her ‘greatest achievement’ was Blair’s New Labour.
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