Tony Blair’s 'Peace Mission': Iraq's Architects Return to 'Fix' Gaza
Tony Blair, the "Special Envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East" from 2007-2015, is apparently back, with DW suggesting he's a potential peacemaker for Gaza. This from the same politician whose ardent support for the 2003 Iraq invasion led to destabilization, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the rise of ISIS (Source: Chilcot Report, 2016). His previous 'peace' efforts yielded zero results
for Palestinians, overseeing continued Israeli settlement expansion while Palestinian statehood evaporated. The media-savvy rehabilitation of figures like Blair for 'peace missions' feels less like diplomacy and more like a macabre comedy. It’s rich, asking an arsonist to manage the fire department. How many times will we watch the purveyors of catastrophe reinvent themselves as saviors before we
question the definition of 'peace' they peddle?