From Balfour to Trump/Blair: They Understand, They Just Don’t Care
Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan with Blair feels like Iraq and mandate Palestine returning, staged as if history never happened and as if we were all fools.
When I first heard the news, I thought they had managed the impossible. A plan even more careless, more reckless, more scornful than Trump’s so-called Gaza Riviera scheme, which imagined Palestinians “temporarily removed” while his real estate courtiers rebuilt the enclave into a beachfront resort.
This time Palestinians are “free” to stay on their own land. Shukr ya rabb! There are only a few “issues” with this plan, one of them being that it is a colonial construct.
According to Israeli and Western reports, under Trump’s 20-point “day after” plan control of Gaza would shift to a provisional transitional authority described as a “technocratic and apolitical Palestinian committee.” This committee would operate under the oversight of an international “Board of Peace” chaired by Donald Trump and composed of other world leaders and officials, among them former British prime minister Tony Blair.
The former British prime minister who followed George W. Bush…
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