Anne Irfan

Anne Irfan teaches at UCL. She is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System and A Short History of the Gaza Strip.

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Balfour to Blair

6 October 2025

The British government has formally backed Donald Trump’s latest plan for Gaza, which proposes a leading role for Tony Blair in the Strip’s future governance. Under the Trump plan, which was devised in consultation with Israel but without any Palestinian input, a ‘technocratic apolitical committee’ will govern Gaza under the supervision of a ‘Board of Peace’ headed by Trump himself. The twenty-point plan states that the committee will include ‘qualified Palestinians’ as members, but names no one other than Blair.

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