Tony Blair’s new mission; Broker for Tel Aviv

According to the Fars News Agency International Group, Israeli media reported on the role of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the “day after” the Gaza war. Channel 12 of the Zionist regime confirmed in early January that this former British official came to occupied Palestine on a secret trip at the end of last year and had meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Minister of War Benny Gantz.

These sources reported that Tel Aviv plans to use Blair to mediate with Western countries and convince them to welcome refugees from the Gaza Strip after the end of the current war. In the meetings that Blair held in Occupied Palestine, the idea was raised that he would mediate between Israel and Western countries regarding Tel Aviv’s plan to re-displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Not very strong denial

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a private organization founded by In 2016, Blair dismissed Israel’s Channel 12 report as “a lie” and explained in a statement that the report “was published without any connection with Tony Blair or his team, and no such discussions took place, nor did Tony Blair say such a thing.” This idea is fundamentally wrong. The people of Gaza should be able to stay and live in Gaza”.

After that, other Israeli media such as “Jerusalem Post” hastily followed this position and quoted a source close to Blair. They wrote: “Allegations related to Blair’s connection with the displacement of Palestinians are not true… such a dispute has never taken place and Blair will not enter into a dispute about such a proposal.”

The Palestinian displacement project did not come out of thin air

Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed newspaper today (Monday, January 8) by publishing this story written by “Bashir Al-Bakar” with the headline “Tony Blair; Israel’s broker to displace the Palestinians” referred to a proverb and wrote: “There is no smoke without fire. Since Israeli media are heavily censored during wartime, they do not publish such news without official approval. This is the reason why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Head of the Palestinian Authority also issued two statements strongly attacking Blair and describing him as an undesirable person in the Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 1, in a statement, following up on Israeli media reports about Blair’s leadership of a team for the voluntary relocation of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and holding “meetings and consultations with a number of countries for Acceptance of these refugees” announced.

This ministry, using the phrase “according to received reports”, although it tried to take the path of caution, announced: if this matter is true, this action is a hostile action against the Palestinian people. And their rights in their land and homeland are considered a clear violation of international laws”. The day condemned “dubious attempts” to appoint Blair or others to “remove Palestinian citizens from the Gaza Strip” and declared: “Blair appears to be seeking to complete the Balfour Declaration, which was issued by the British government in partnership with the United States, and a disaster.” for the Palestinian nation and caused dozens of wars to flare up in the region.

This statement continued: “We ask the British government not to allow the fate of the Palestinian nation and its future to be played, and we also ask the Secretary General of the United Nations to take any action to prevent To carry out such actions that violate international laws and legitimacy and only benefit the interests of Israel.

This Qatari newspaper further wrote that if there was no confirmed information about the preparations for the re-displacement of the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority would not have issued two statements with such severity and would not have warned about the consequences of this. He did not use this non-diplomatic tone against Blair.

In this regard, the Palestinian ambassador in London, Hossam Zamlat, also asked the British government to “ensure that no British person in any way is involved in the ongoing crimes of Israel.” He does not participate against humanity in Gaza.” On January 1st, he wrote on his page on the “X” social network: “Whoever does this, the legal consequences of such immoral actions and It will suffer crimes against the Palestinian people”.

In such a situation, Itmar Ben Gower, the Minister of National Security of the Israeli regime, welcomed the displacement of the Palestinians last week and called it a “moral step. And he considered it fair that it should be removed first of all for the residents of the Gaza borders and for all of Israel.. Such initiatives are a necessary element in the real solution for the day after the war”.

Question mark about Blair’s role in the project to resettle Palestinians from Gaza

According to this report , two important points are worth noting here. First, this denial of this news was not from Blair himself, but from a close source and the “Tony Blair Institute”. Second, the said denial was not about Blair’s trip to Israel. It is a big question mark why he traveled to occupied Palestine and this issue opens the way for many interpretations.

According to the Palestinian circles in London, the reason for Blair’s secrecy is this. that he does not want this process to become public, because it has numerous political and moral consequences for him and will bring widespread reactions not only from the Palestinian Authority, but also from the United Nations and even international parties.

According to al-Arabi al-Jadid, the leak of Blair’s secret meetings in occupied Palestine shows that Israel’s calculations are different from what Blair sees about this process, despite their agreement on the principle of the goal. While Israeli officials want the mediation to be held in public, Blair is trying to keep it secret, at least in the preliminary phase.

Israel once again emphasizes the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza since the beginning of the war

According to this note, the Palestinian displacement project The issue is not new, but has been raised since the beginning of the Gaza war, and a number of Israeli officials, including Likud Knesset representative Danny Danon, have raised it in statements since last November.

“The world is debating this,” Danone revealed. He even named Canada’s Immigration Minister Mark Miller and said he had spoken to him publicly about these matters, which the Immigration Minister denied. But the presumptive Republican candidate for the US presidency, Nikki Haley, bluntly stated in late December: “As I always say, the Palestinians in Gaza should cross the Rafah border into Egypt, and from there to other Hamas-supporting countries like Iran, Qatar and Turkey should go.” After that, a number of Israeli officials proposed the idea of ​​forming a team to look into the issue and ensure that whoever wants to leave Gaza for a third country, he can do so. Last month, Netanyahu revealed in response to Danon at a Likud party meeting that “our problem is the countries that have to prepare to receive refugees, and we are working to solve this issue”.

It turns out that Israel’s message has reached pro-Israel journalists in Europe, and for this reason, this issue is raised in French pro-Israel forums and channels. In the meantime, there are those who talk about the displacement of about 800,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. But anyway, this is an operational project to bypass Egypt’s opposition to the mass resettlement of Gazans to Sinai, which was proposed by Israeli authorities in the first weeks of the war.

Obstacles of the project to resettle the people of Gaza

The author states in the conclusion that the final implementation of this The project is related to the results of the current battle. But even if Israel ends the result in its favor, it does not seem feasible for several reasons.

One ​​of the most important obstacles of this project is the awareness of the Palestinians about the dangers of forced or voluntary resettlement. Is. Another obstacle is the resistance’s strong opposition to this issue, as it relates to the day after the war in the Gaza Strip. The third obstacle is the large number that Israel seeks to relocate, which is practically impossible. Some countries can accept hundreds or thousands of people, but it is impossible to accept hundreds of thousands. Human rights know and the European Union is also against it. Even the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, Josep Borrell, reacted to it and even condemned the voluntary relocation of the Palestinians.

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