Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was recently sent by Donald Trump's Board of Peace to ask the Palestinian Authority (PA) to replace any mention of the word "Palestine" in schoolbooks with the Jewish designation of "Samaria", Middle East Eye has heard.

Jeremy Greenstock, who was Britain's ambassador to the UN between 1998 and 2003, told MEE that Blair attempted to exert pressure on the PA and said that if it was serious about being seen by the Board of Peace as capable of reaching an agreement with Israel to end the war on Gaza, then the word "Palestine" should be erased from textbooks.

In a wide-ranging interview on the David Hearst Podcast, Greenstock said the demand was rejected by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago

How that is not genocidal to refer to Palestinian land with an Hebrew name

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Literal erasure

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    More impeccable global citizenship from one of the people who brought you the Iraq War.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Think about this, since Thatcher first got into power, Britain hasn't had one good prime minister.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I'll reserve judgement on Andy Burnham, but I honestly think the least bad prime minister we've had since Thatcher is John Major.

    He had a working class background, worked as both a bus conductor and labourer before moving into banking and then politics. He was very pro-Europe, and didn't subscribe to popularity politics. The main complaint people had about him was that he was uninteresting.

    I do think Tony Blair is the worst PM since Thatcher, just in terms of lasting damage. BoJo and Liz Truss were worse at the job, but the damage they did was fixable. We're still living with the damage done by Blair - the Overton Window has still not shifted back, student loans, the normalisation of lying in Parliament. The country, the institutions and youth prospects are all worse as a result of him. And seemingly not content, his haunted mummified corpse has now shuffled back on the scene to try to do more damage.

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