Western Diplomacy and the Laundering of Controversial Leaders

Editor's note: Honestly, does anyone actually trust the British? George Galloway is not arrested but he is detained for 9 hours by the counter-terrorism™ police at Gatwick London Airport under the Counter Terrorism™ and Border Security Act. Try to grip this for a minute: President Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa when prior to his vetted presidency of Syria, al-Sharaa was a terrorist foot soldier for al-Qaeda and at one time wanted by the US. This while George Galloway is detained for 9 hours at London Gatwick Airport. The world has flipped completely upside down before our very eyes. Appointing Tony Blair to oversee Gaza is a tone-deaf and morally bankrupt decision that insults both history and common sense. Blair’s hands are stained by the Iraq War — a catastrophe that destabilized the region and cost countless lives — and his past role as Middle East envoy proved him incapable of impartiality or compassion toward Palestinians. To place him in any position of authority in Gaza is to mock the very idea of justice and self-determination, turning a humanitarian crisis into yet another stage for Western arrogance and political theater.

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In Gaza, Outrage Spreads At Trump's 'Governor Blair' Plan

Palestinians have not forgotten Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq.

By Shaimaa Eid | October 2, 2025

Amid growing controversy over Donald Trump's plan to end the war on the Gaza Strip, one aspect has caused particular concern.

That is the suggestion Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair could be a "temporary governor" of Gaza.

Palestinians, exhausted by war and stripped of their homes and loved ones, view this move as an attempt to reimpose foreign guardianship over Gaza.

Voices of anger and rejection are rising from the displacement tents in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis.

Here, people fear an extension of old colonial projects resurfacing today under a new political guise.

'Colonial guardianship'

Palestinian journalist Rifka Al Amya describes the idea as "insulting and outrageous", telling Declassified: "I strongly object to the notion of Tony Blair or any foreign figure being appointed as a temporary governor of the Gaza Strip.

"I see it as a renewed form of colonial trusteeship that has long ignored the Palestinian people's right to self-determination."

Al Amya adds firmly that what is being proposed today, after two years of systematic genocide and 77 years of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and massacres, reveals a deep disregard for the history and struggle of the Palestinian people – and a desire to impose solutions that diminish our rights rather than restore them.

She believes that what is happening confirms that the international community has not only allowed violence against Gaza, but is also actively working to cement a political reality that takes us back to a time even worse than before.

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'No one here needs a foreign ruler'

Just a few metres from the sea in Khan Younis, Abdel Fattah Al Amssi, a man in his seventies, sits on the hot sands of Al Mawasi under the blazing sun beside his torn tent.

When we asked him about Tony Blair, he erupted angrily: "Blair? Isn't he the one who stood with Bush in the Iraq war? What did he do there except bring destruction?

"And now they want to send him to rule Gaza? This is an insult to the people of Gaza who have made sacrifices, and an insult to the entire Palestinian people."

Al Amssi then gestures with his hand toward the endless stretch of tents, saying: "No one here needs a foreign ruler. We have our own men and women capable of managing their country.

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The British and the US government's embrace of Ahmed al-Sharaa — a man once tied to al-Qaeda networks — reeks of geopolitical hypocrisy and moral decay. After years of denouncing him as a terrorist™, London now repackages al-Sharaa as a "moderate" statesman fit to lead Syria, with help from British-backed NGOs that specialize in political makeovers. This cynical rehabilitation exposes the rot at the core of Western foreign policy: terrorists™ are condemned when inconvenient, but recycled as partners when useful. By legitimizing al-Sharaa, Britain isn't promoting peace — it's whitewashing extremism for strategic gain and proving once again that power politics trumps (pun intended) principle.

Here is another very good historical reason not to trust the British. Absolutely nothing has changed with the British only that the imperial British corporate fascist model has become more sophisticated:

Oracle's Larry Ellison drops £257 million into Tony Blair's institute: