Blair, Kushner and Hamas Serve ‘Trumpian Doctrine’ for Future Gaza

By Hassan Asfour
In May 2025, the British Telegraph published a report that the U.S. special envoy for the Gaza war, Witkoff, had turned to former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an adviser on the political landscape.

The report itself came as a “surprise,” but in reality it was unsurprising: Blair has political experience from his former office, yet he has also moved into roles that combine political brokerage and real-estate mediation. These traits give him a distinctive place within the “Trumpian doctrine” centered on the “cleansing of the Gaza Strip” (referred to in the media as displacement). In July 2025 the Financial Times reported that the Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a post-war plan for Gaza, an integrated project aligned with the core of the Trumpist stance, known as the “Gaza Riviera.” Blair wasted no time: he met with President Mahmoud Abbas and contacted Arab parties linked to the displacement plan.

As the comprehensive post-Gaza plan took shape along the lines of Trump’s cleansing idea, Jared Kushner — the husband of the American president’s daughter — joined the team drafting the “future” project. Thus the meeting of the Blair–Kushner duo at the White House with Trump, in the presence of Witkoff, was an early signal that the train of the post-war Gaza agenda had effectively left the station.

Trump’s meeting with the duo charged with completing the post-war project coincided with threats by what the author calls the “Jewish fascist state” to internally displace the people of Gaza City toward the central and southern areas before commencing an expanded occupation. This forms part of the broader blueprint emerging at the White House: a complex operation combining direct intimidation to prompt “voluntary” displacement, creating a coercive reality in the southern region, and opening the door to the post-war plan from the north of the Gaza Strip.

The Blair–Kushner meeting with Trump and his inner team was not an event primarily about humanitarian aid or negotiating a “partial truce”; it formed part of discussions on a comprehensive vision of what is to come, including some details of a temporary or transitional solution based on interconnected elements, among them:

Providing aid through specific security mechanisms involving the Israeli army and local implementing elements.
Preparing internal displacement zones under the control of the same security actors.
Reaching agreement on the local administrative committee to manage civilian life in the Gaza Strip.
Agreement on the overall and partial Israeli security role, including:
Arrangements for internal movement and the security dimension.
Finalizing a working mechanism for the Rafah crossing and its special controls.
Reconstruction, which includes:

Considering the composition of a “Gaza Reconstruction Council.”
Studying the financial costs and timeframe for reconstruction.
The political rules governing reconstruction to prevent the outbreak of wars or military confrontations that would hinder rebuilding.
Displacement is a central principle in the U.S. plan to rebuild Gaza, and the process of securing the necessary funds has already begun, with contacts being made with various countries, without consideration for whether displacement will be temporary or permanent.

The U.S. vision is closely tied to the objectives of the Israeli government: disarming the Gaza Strip, ending Hamas’s political and security era, creating a “temporary” political separation from the West Bank, and eliminating the camps by converting them into urban areas that erase the legal and political status of “refugee.”

The contours of Trump’s expanded plan are moving from study to implementation by multiple means. Hamas leadership in Qatar and Turkey believes it can disrupt these plans, but the reality is the opposite: all of Hamas’s positions on the Gaza war serve the U.S. administration and Netanyahu’s government by offering a strategic pretext to advance the larger scheme, while the Brotherhood movement sinks deeper into the quagmire originating at Al-Udeid base.

With the Trumpist cleansing project underway, it is important to shift the discussion to what must be done beyond deaf “no”s, and to think about practical solutions that can contain the cleansing displacement through transitional absorption, under a broad regional understanding.

Simply rejecting the cleansing displacement plan without presenting a practical alternative only serves that plan. Time does not wait, and events move faster than the rhetoric of those who sing revolutionary songs.

Note: The United States voted against 14 countries in the Security Council that called for a halt to the Gaza war and argued that the famine is an Israeli-made — effectively American-assisted — catastrophe. Predictably, some Arab actors celebrated that Washington did not use the veto… May God protect us from the tokens of gratitude they might send. In an era of abasement, anything can happen.

Special note: Bahrain accepted the credentials of the ambassador of the fascist enemy state two days after Brazil rejected appointing an ambassador for that state. Can we understand the great significance of such a Bahraini step? People, have some self-respect — believe you are Arabs, or at least believe your words that you oppose the extermination of the Palestinian people. What can one say: there is a wide difference between the Latin “B” and the “Gulf” “B” — a gulf of shame.