Afrasianet - Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who played a historic role in the alliance with America to invade Iraq in 2003, along with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and former political advisor on Middle East affairs. The meeting addressed the "day after" Israel's control of the Gaza Strip and, as the American website Axios reported, discussed "ideas for how to govern Gaza without Hamas in power."
Last month, the British newspaper Financial Times highlighted the involvement of Blair's consulting firm in consultations related to the "Gaza Riviera," urban, tourism, and economic projects envisioned by Trump to colonize the coast of the Gaza Strip after its evacuation of its population.
Media outlets have reported coordination between the Tony Blair Institute in London, which participated in developing the post-war plan, and a group of Israeli investors in the American firm Boston Consulting, which played a key role in establishing the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The title the Tony Blair Institute gave the plan, "Great Trust: From a Destructive Iranian Proxy to a Thriving Abrahamic Ally," explains the importance of Kushner's presence, as he was the architect of the "Deal of the Century" and the "Abraham Accords" for Arab normalization with Israel, and was also behind the idea of the "Gaza Riviera."
The aforementioned meeting, and its connection with Israeli and American businessmen who sponsor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, sheds light on the ways in which plans for genocide and ethnic cleansing are intertwined with a special kind of people: Trump, Blair, and Kushner. These politicians transform plans for ethnic cleansing and the crushing of humanity into PowerPoint presentations, rebranding the hellish "doomsday" experienced by Gazans as "the day after the elimination of Hamas," and converting the blood and crushed bones of Gaza's children, women, and men into vast sums of money in the banks.
According to reports, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer will be present at the meeting between Trump, Blair, and Kushner. Although Blair's plan has reportedly been presented to "a number of governments and entities in the Middle East," it appears that these governments and entities will be limited to accepting whatever the American, Israeli, and British businessmen and politicians agree upon.
The US State Department's revocation of visas for members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the United States (and thus preventing PA President Mahmoud Abbas from traveling to New York to address the annual UN General Assembly) adds another dimension to the US-Israeli plans that goes beyond the "day after" in Gaza to the "day after" for the Palestinian political project as a whole, apparently in preparation for the inclusion of Netanyahu and his partners' plans for "reshaping the Middle East," as he calls them, including the annexation of the West Bank, the end of the Palestinian Authority, and the expansion of ethnic cleansing to include all Palestinians.