US official dismisses ‘misleading’ report suggesting Blair sidelined from Board of Peace

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8 December 2025, 10:26 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin on June 24, 2025. (Jade Gao/AFP)

A US official flatly dismisses a “misleading” Financial Times report suggesting that former UK prime minister Tony Blair has been sidelined from the Board of Peace that the US is establishing to oversee the management of Gaza.

While the 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war that US President Donald Trump unveiled in September stated Blair would sit on the board, Washington has since shifted to a different model where the panel will be filled by current heads of state, who will play more symbolic roles while an intermediate level “executive committee” will be more closely involved in overseeing the management of Gaza.

Blair is poised to sit on that committee, along with top Trump aides Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, as well as former UN envoy for Mideast peace Nikolay Mladenov, the US official says.