Tony Blair is a former British prime minister. As prime minister he joined America in invading Iraq in 2003. He subsequently served for eight years as envoy of the Quartet, a group comprising America, the EU, Russia and the UN, tasked with implementing a road map to Palestinian statehood. During his tenure Israel thumped Gaza four times and tightened its grip on the Palestinian territories.
Blair's government introduced Child Trust Funds, investment accounts for babies, as a totemic social-democratic policy. The scheme was later scrapped but served as the model for Donald Trump's "Trump Accounts" in 2025, in which children born between 2025 and 2028 receive a $1,000 government deposit into a tax-free investment account.
After the outbreak of war in Gaza in October 2023, Blair drafted a plan for a post-war mandate through his London-based foundation. The proposal, called the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA), would seek a UN mandate to be Gaza's "supreme political and legal authority" for five years. It is modelled on the international administrations that oversaw East Timor and Kosovo's transitions to statehood. The plan has backing from Gulf leaders and Jared Kushner, and reportedly Donald Trump's blessing. Gulf states would pay.
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