Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/washington-backing-plan-for-tony-blair-to-head-transitional-gaza-authority

https://archive.ph/ooQgt

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bradv@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 340d (1 reply)

The war criminal who lied to help Bush invade Iraq?

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

Yup. That same guy.

What could possibly go doing! /s

Hegar@fedia.io · 33 pts · 340d

Blair's think tank has been doing the planning for the whole gaza riviera bullshit.

He's been working closely with kushner and the israelis. According to a democracy now interview with a former state department mid east expert who's worked with blair in the past, this plan largely assumes that israel's genocide is successful.

Blair is being appointed because he's been planning exactly how to loot the ruins of gaza to profit trump's family and netanyahu's friends.

xenomor@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Goddamn, that ghoul is still alive?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 340d

More's the pity.

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Sounds likely a good appointment. Never seen Weak Misguided Dealings with the Middle-East from Tony Blair.

JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 340d

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Satan was unavailable.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

Based on the latest South Park episodes, we all know why.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 340d

I'm sure Palestine, a state that has never been fucked over by the British, will happilly accept this.

yesman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 340d

The last time the English had a mandate to "transition" in Palestine, terrorists blew up their headquarters. Later, when the Israeli authorities caught up with the vicious terrorist, they made him their 6th prime minister. Oh, and after the Nakba, the terrorist group he led, called Irgun, was rolled into the IDF.

None of this is hyperbole. Both the US and UK designated Begin and Irgun as terrorists at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin#1948_Palestine_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel#Bombing

Auk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 340d

Finally a fresh approach and not a reenactment of the British Mandate of Palestine.

OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 340d

Re-Colonization of the middle east.. Let's see history repeat itself again..

shiroininja@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

Coming back into the light like a ghoul of Christmas past

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 340d

The kakistocracy continues.

I can't think of anyone less suited for this role than war criminal and mouthpiece of dictators Tony Blair.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d