A British proconsul in Palestine, or in what remains of it, almost as in the times of the mandate of the empire that was. It could have the face of Tony Blair, 72 -year -old former British Prime Minister and faithful partner of Washington since the time of the unfortunate war adventure in Iraq, the executor of the plan that the US administration of Donald Trump imagines for the future of the Gaza Striscia devastated by almost two years of Israeli military retaliation following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023: the plan President-Magnate has returned to recall, prediting in these hours an alleged imminent change of peace. Or at least of respite.
“I think that we are very close to an agreement,” said The Donald in an exchange of jokes with journalists in the White House. “It will be an agreement that will bring the hostages home and put an end to the war” in Gaza, he was sentenced. Agreement to be crown with the initiative he himself discussed days ago with the premier of Israel, Benyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, and with some managers of allied Islamic countries, Gulf monarchies in the lead, who – according to rumors – provides for a permanent transition phase for the strip. Waiting to proceed with the divisions of some “reconstruction” path. Always as long as you tear a placet on the cease the fire in Netanyahu, which Trump waits to meet face to face on Monday.
And without forgetting the unknowns linked to the veto on annexes in the West Bank that the president has promised to impose on the ultra -decay of friend of his friend Bibi. Incognithened behind which the maneuvers of those who try to file the projects of a ‘pax Americanà for the afterwards. First of all, the Riesumato Blair, a statesman lent for years to international consultancy (and to business) who, according to the revelations of some Israeli media, confirmed and pointed out by sources close to him through British newspapers such as the economist or the Guardian, has in fact self -certified for a role as a pro tempore governor. Head of an interim administration formally covered by the UN signs, with Arabic officials and at least one Palestinian ‘technician’ among his ranks that should take the future control of Gaza. With the approval of the USA, Israel and Muslim allies of the West; and the postponement of “years” of the declared objective of the return of the Strip to the Palestinian National Authority (ANP).
The starting point of this initiative is made up of reconstruction plans recently discussed by the same Blair with the Special Trump emissary for the Middle East and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, and with the son -in -law of President Jared Kushner, a well -introduced businessman introduced in the gulf like the former New Labor leader. To which is added the proposal to place Sir Tony in person at the helm of an international transition authority for Gaza (Gaza International Transitional Authority, or trip). Temporary administration that in the indications made by the London Tony Blair Institute (TBI) would be established under the aegis of the United Nations and would work as a control authority of Gaza for several years, before imagining a transfer of powers to a “reformed” ANP. The headquarters of the structure would be set across the border, to Al Arish, the capital of the Egyptian province of northern Sinai, except for a subsequent move to be carried out under the protection of a hypothetical UN multinational force by Arab majority.
The idea that all this can then give rise to a welding with the West Bank in a single Palestinian state to be established one day according to the model of Kosovo or Timor Est would instead remain confined to the auspices of a very uncertain future. Especially since the rhetoric exhibited once again at the Palazzo di Glass by Netanyahu does not offer spiragli sorts. The only real guarantee to the Palestinians would remain that relating to the exclusion of a mass emptying of the strip from its surviving inhabitants, largely displaced between the ruins. Guarantee that Blair suggests that he has claimed in exchange for his “availability”. Unlike the scenario of “transfers” incentivized evoked at the time by Trump with the very contested gimmick of the “Riviera del Middle East”.