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The Owen Jones Podcast

Blair Running Gaza Is Like A SERIAL KILLER Running A Care Home

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

The Grand Sumo Tournament comes to the Royal Albert Hall.

0:05.0

Over 40 elite sumo wrestlers from Japan will battle for the coveted title of Grand Champion over five days.

0:14.0

Witness the battle of power and endurance between these great athletes.

0:19.0

From the 15th to the 19th of October.

0:22.9

For tickets and more information, head to royal alberthall.com.

0:32.1

Tony Blair, as the colonial dictator of Gaza, this is the insane proposition being seriously promoted by Donald Trump and the like.

0:41.8

Now, Blair is close to Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has previously stated

0:45.6

that Gaza waterfront property could be very valuable.

0:49.8

I was on Good Morning Britain on ITV today, debating this with Robert Clark, who's a defence fellow at the Yorktown Institute, which is a hawkish pro-war think tank.

0:59.5

And I like Tony. I've always liked Tony, but I want to find out that he's an acceptable choice to everybody.

1:05.4

So what do you think? Could Tony Blair bring peace to the region? We'll give you the results of our phone poll on this in about five minutes.

1:11.6

Meanwhile, former Labour supporter Owen Jones, who's writing a book on the Middle East,

1:14.6

says that Blair just creates chaos in the region.

1:17.6

But Iraq war veteran, Robert Clark, says the former PM has all the contacts to help end the conflict and move things forward.

1:25.6

And I'd like to start with you. We've heard this morning that the deputy president

1:29.3

of the Palestinian Authority is also head of the PLO executive committee,

1:33.3

so he carries a lot of weight.

1:35.3

Hussein Al-Shake, very happy, he says, to work with Tony Blair.

1:39.3

If it's good enough for him, why isn't it good enough for you?

1:42.3

I've just come back from the West Bank, actually, travelling all around.

1:45.8

And I have to say, the Palestinian Authority is monstrously unpopular amongst Palestinians.

1:50.6

There hasn't been an election to elect those who govern them for, what, nearly 20 years now.

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