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More details emerge from the White House meeting on the future of Gaza. After Jared Kushner, it is learned that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also attended.
The plan, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff, is described as "very comprehensive" and with humanitarian claims, but meanwhile on the ground, Israel continues to push its troops towards Gaza, destroying entire neighborhoods and forcing thousands of Palestinians to relocate amid hunger and lack of aid.
Blair's participation raises other dilemmas. We recall that his name and that of his institute, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), were linked last year to a controversial project developed by Israeli businessmen and the American consulting firm BCG, which envisaged the paid relocation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the return of Gaza to a "Middle Eastern Riviera", with tourist resorts, highways named after Gulf princes and a technological manufacturing zone that would bear the name of Elon Musk. Blair's institute itself has denied having been the author of this project, admitting only the participation of some employees in a few phone calls and exchanges of ideas "without formal commitment". But the fact that documents with the TBI logo circulated among the organizers of the plan led many analysts to see Blair as part of a much larger game to "redesign" Gaza according to the tastes of Trump and his Israeli allies.
Trump himself, months ago, had publicly floated the idea of a “Middle Eastern Riviera” in Gaza, to be built after the departure of the Palestinian inhabitants. At the time, the statement caused a stir and seemed like a provocation. But the fact that today, at the White House table for Gaza, in addition to Kushner, Blair also sat, who for almost a decade has been involved in the Middle East peace processes as an envoy of the International Quartet, makes this vision much closer than a fantasy.
Blair has insisted that his work and that of the institute he runs has always focused on “building a better future for Palestinians in Gaza” and that he has never supported plans for population displacement. But there is no shortage of criticism: as many analysts say, Blair’s very admission to a table where the “dismantling” of Gaza as we know it today is discussed is a clear message that the former British prime minister is no longer just an old broker, but part of a new vision, where power, business and politics are intertwined on the backs of a people who are surviving amidst destruction.
On the ground, meanwhile, Israeli tanks continue to demolish homes and the UN warns that the new offensive in Gaza City, where famine is already a declared reality, will have “catastrophic humanitarian consequences.” And it is precisely against this tragic backdrop that the White House discussions with Trump, Kushner and Blair look more like plans for reconfiguring a devastated land than like projects for saving the lives of people who are now disappearing in the rubble.
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