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Blair pressed PA to strip Palestine from school textbooks, UK envoy says
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Former British envoy Jeremy Greenstock told Middle East Eye that Tony Blair asked the Palestinian Authority to remove references to "Palestine" from textbooks during his involvement in peace diplomacy. Greenstock made the claim in an exclusive interview, describing the request as evidence of partiality rather than neutrality in Blair's approach to mediation between Israelis and Palestinians.
The revelation raises questions about the impartiality of international mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Greenstock's account suggests Blair's role as an intermediary may have been compromised by demands that favored one side's position over core elements of Palestinian identity and national nomenclature in educational materials.
