It has been previously reported that the failed former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been marketing a post-Hamas Gaza plan, one that promises not to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians, a la Netanyahu, but which pursues a kinder and gentler path to subduing the population. Under Blair’s plan, an international body of experts will be handed the overlordship of Gaza, with a privatized army to discipline any troublemakers.
There is no timetable for the experts to hand over to the Palestinian Authority any actual power. Rather, any eventual Palestinian role in governing Gaza is to be “performance based”—that is, there is no guarantee it will ever happen, especially if Israel has any expertise in provoking confrontations and violence that could be blamed on the Palestinians.
In late August, Blair met in the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump on his technocratic governance scheme—called the “Gaza International Transitional Authority” (GITA)—and was said to have won his support.
