In the next five years, you will be asked to get a digital ID to access healthcare. The hospital will require biometric verification to see your records. Your bank will link your medical history to your credit score. Your employer will check your genetic markers before offering you a job.
The infrastructure is being built right now by your government. Except your government isn’t really yours anymore. It’s being run by a man most people have never heard of, in a position that doesn’t officially exist: Larry Ellison, the billionaire who made his fortune building databases for the CIA and is now building the architecture of a surveillance state.
He’s not doing it alone. He bought himself a disgraced Prime Minister for £257 million. A man whose singular talent is selling morally catastrophic projects as humanitarian necessity. Together, they’ve spent the past three years testing every component of this system in countries around the world. And now they’re ready to demonstrate the full stack in Gaza, where two years of bombardment have killed over 66,000 people and created the blank slate conditions they need.
This will be framed as Middle East peace, humanitarian reconstruction, economic development for Palestinians. But this is about the infrastructure being built in the rubble of Gaza that will be exported to your city, your hospital, your country. A surveillance system being tested on Palestinians that will be used to govern you.
Tony Blair destroyed Iraq with lies. Now he’s on the Board of Peace for Gaza’s reconstruction. Larry Ellison built Oracle for the CIA and is now building the operating system for techno-authoritarianism. A peace process becomes a data harvesting operation. Disaster capitalism found its final form in digital enclosure.
And you’re next.
The Quarter Billion Dollar Question
In 2021, Larry Ellison gave £257 million to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
Most people haven’t heard of it. It’s a consulting organization that embeds staff inside government ministries around the world, offering “policy advice” on digital transformation. They help governments modernize their infrastructure, consolidate their data systems, implement digital IDs. They work in 45 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. All under the banner of a nonprofit, which makes it look like public service.
Before Ellison’s money arrived, TBI had about 200 employees. Within two years, it had nearly 1,000. The organization went from a modest policy shop to a global operation working directly with presidents and prime ministers on technology infrastructure projects.
Here’s where it gets interesting… In Kenya, TBI designed a digital agriculture system. Oracle won the government cloud contract. In Rwanda, TBI provided advisors on data consolidation. Oracle got approved to host government systems. In the UK, TBI recommended linking healthcare data across agencies that all happen to be Oracle clients already. Oracle’s UK public sector revenue hit £1.1 billion since 2022.
I’m inferring correlation here, not claiming direct causation. But the pattern is consistent enough across multiple countries that former TBI employees started telling journalists the organization had essentially become “Oracle sales in disguise.” One staffer described joint meetings in the TBI basement with Oracle executives as feeling like “they’re part of the same organisation.”
So what did Ellison buy for all those millions? Access to 45 governments. The appearance of legitimacy for surveillance infrastructure. A think tank sounds so much better than a database company. A former head of state who could walk into any capital in the world and be taken seriously.
But more than that, he bought something most billionaires can only dream of: a man with nothing left to lose.
In 2003, Tony Blair convinced Britain that invading Iraq would bring democracy and freedom to the Middle East. A million people died. The country collapsed into sectarian violence that continues today. The weapons of mass destruction that justified the invasion never existed. Blair left office in disgrace, his legacy permanently bound to one of the most catastrophic foreign policy decisions in modern history.
While other former leaders still care about their reputations, still guard their public image, still have lines they won’t cross, Blair crossed all his lines two decades ago. He’s uniquely useful for projects that require a certain moral flexibility. Blair has become the front door. Oracle is what walks through after.
What’s Actually Being Built in Gaza
On September 29, 2025, Donald Trump announced his 20-point peace plan for Gaza. The plan called for an immediate ceasefire, the return of hostages, prisoner exchanges, demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, deployment of an international stabilization force, and the establishment of a “Board of Peace” that would oversee reconstruction. Trump would chair it himself. The only other person he named: Tony Blair.
I’m not an international peace negotiator, but something tells me that a plan designed primarily by Americans and Israelis, without meaningful Palestinian input, to govern Palestinians in their own territory, might have some sustainability issues. The plan mentions Palestinian statehood as “the aspiration of the Palestinian people” but doesn’t commit to recognizing it. It calls for Gaza to be governed by “Palestinian technocrats” under international supervision, but doesn’t specify which Palestinians or how they’d be chosen. The timeline for Palestinian Authority control is described only as “performance-based,” which could mean years, or never.
Blair had been working on this for months before Trump announced it. In spring 2025, Jared Kushner commissioned him to develop the postwar plan. Let’s pause on that for a second. Jared Kushner runs Affinity Partners, a private equity firm with over $3 billion raised primarily from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund put in $2 billion alone. Kushner also happens to be Trump’s son-in-law and served as his senior advisor during his first term, where he was the architect of Trump’s Middle East policy.
Except Kushner holds no official government position in Trump’s second term. He’s a private citizen running a private equity firm with Saudi money, commissioning reconstruction plans for Palestinian territory.
So Kushner hired Blair. Blair then worked with Ron Dermer (Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest adviser and former Israeli ambassador to the US) and the UAE Foreign Minister to develop the reconstruction framework. Trump told Blair to get Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on board. By September, the plan was ready.
On October 9, 2025, Israel and Hamas signed the first phase of the agreement in Egypt. The ceasefire included the release of 20 living hostages in exchange for 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, Israeli forces withdrawing from populated areas, and humanitarian aid entering Gaza without interference. On October 12, Blair met with Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh to discuss the next phase: reconstruction.
Follow the money back: Trump announces it. Kushner (private equity guy with Saudi funding) commissions it. Blair (Oracle employee) designs it. And Blair works for Larry Ellison.
So when Tony Blair governs Gaza, Larry Ellison governs Gaza.
The GREAT Trust
And what are they proposing to build? The GREAT Trust pitch deck (Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation) lays it out with the professional polish of a BCG presentation, complete with financial modeling and partnership logos. The proposal includes a Gaza Trump Riviera Islands and an Elon Musk Manufacturing Zone. All services and economic activity would run through ID-based AI-powered digital systems.
But the funding model is what separates this from every other reconstruction plan in history.
Page nine describes something called “land tokenization.” They want to convert Palestinian land into blockchain tokens. Public lands (thirty percent of Gaza) would go into a trust controlled by the reconstruction authority. Private landowners would be offered the opportunity to place their land in the trust in exchange for tokens that grant rights to eventual housing. Except the housing doesn’t exist yet, and the tokens are controlled by a system Palestinians don’t govern.
If you don’t want your ancestral land turned into cryptocurrency, there’s a “voluntary relocation program.” Five thousand dollars per person to leave. Four years of subsidized rent somewhere else.
Let me be clear about what this is: this is ethnic cleansing through financial engineering. This is taking land from people who’ve lived on it for generations and converting it into digital assets controlled by foreign investors. This is disaster capitalism finding its final form in digital enclosure. And it’s being sold as humanitarian reconstruction, as economic development, as peace.
The pitch deck lists partnerships with IKEA, Tesla, AWS. This is the dream scenario for tech companies: no legacy systems, no existing infrastructure, no messy democracy to slow things down. Just rubble and 66,000 dead Palestinians and the opportunity to build a surveillance state from scratch exactly the way you want it, then sell it as a model to the rest of the world.
And Tony Blair’s face will be on it to make it look legitimate.
What They Want
When Tony Blair shows up to govern Gaza, Larry Ellison governs Gaza. But let’s talk about what that actually means, because this is a fundamentally new way of wielding power. Because Ellison holds no elected office. He’s not on any ballot, not subject to any voters, not accountable to any constituency. He can’t be impeached, recalled, or voted out. But through Blair, he gets to shape the reconstruction of an entire territory, deciding what infrastructure gets built, what systems get implemented, what data gets collected and how it gets used.
And it’s all structured to look legitimate: Trump hired Blair (on Ellison’s payroll), Blair works through a nonprofit think tank (funded by Ellison), and Oracle just happens to be there to provide the infrastructure (which Ellison controls). Each person gets plausible deniability. Each person can claim they’re operating independently, pursuing legitimate goals, serving the public good.
So what does each player actually want?
Ellison wants Oracle to become the infrastructure no country can function without. Digital IDs, biometric databases, property registries, transaction monitoring, 24 hour surveillance, all running on Oracle servers. Once millions of Palestinians depend on it for basic services, you can’t turn it off. Removing Oracle would collapse the entire system.
Blair wants legacy rehabilitation. He destroyed Iraq. Now he gets to “bring peace” to Gaza. If this works, he can stand in front of world leaders and say “we brought stability to the world’s most complex conflict zone through digital modernization.” (He also wants money.)
Kushner wants returns for his Saudi investors. His private equity firm didn’t raise $3 billion for charity, and if he doesn’t show progress by 2026, they could pull all funding for his company. Gaza reconstruction means contracts, access, influence.
Trump wants to look like a peacemaker without doing the work of peacemaking. He chairs the Board of Peace, gets the photo op, takes credit for the ceasefire. Blair does the actual governing.
The Palestinians want their land back, their homes rebuilt, their dead mourned, their future in their own hands. But instead, they get a five thousand dollar check to leave.
What Comes Next?
Here’s what I think happens if this works: once a system like this is operational in Gaza, once Blair can stand in front of world leaders and say “we brought stability to the world’s most complex conflict zone through digital modernization,” TBI can sell that model everywhere. Post-conflict zones become the primary market. Syria, Sudan, Yemen, anywhere that needs reconstruction. But it doesn’t stop there.
The same systems sold as conflict prevention in Gaza get sold as efficiency in London, as agricultural modernization in Nairobi, as smart city development in Jakarta. The marketing changes but the infrastructure stays the same.
This is stateless power using states as clients. Ellison doesn’t need to be president. Blair doesn’t need to win elections. They just need governments desperate enough or compliant enough to let them build the infrastructure. And once it’s built, it doesn’t matter who’s in charge. The infrastructure runs whoever runs the country.
Gaza is the demo. You’re the market. And Tony Blair? He’s just employee of the month.
Sources Cited
Larry Ellison’s Funding of Tony Blair Institute:
“Blair and the Billionaire,” Lighthouse Reports, September 24, 2025. https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/blair-and-the-billionaire/
Peter Geoghegan, “Inside the Tony Blair Institute,” New Statesman, September 25, 2025. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/09/inside-the-tony-blair-institute
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan and Blair’s Role:
“Donald Trump’s September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump’s_September_2025_Gaza_Strip_proposal
Jacob Magid, “Revealed: Tony Blair’s US-backed proposal for ending the Gaza war and replacing Hamas,” The Times of Israel, September 18, 2025. https://www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-tony-blairs-us-backed-proposal-for-ending-the-gaza-war-and-replacing-hamas/
Barak Ravid, “Scoop: Tony Blair and Jared Kushner brief Trump on Gaza post-war plans,” Axios, August 27, 2025. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/27/blair-kushner-gaza-trump-post-war-plan
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners:
Senate Finance Committee, “Wyden Investigation of Kushner Firm Continues,” September 25, 2024. https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-investigation-of-kushner-firm-continues-new-letter-outlines-affinity-partners-fee-structure-lack-of-return-to-investors-questionable-deals-with-foreign-governments
GREAT Trust Land Tokenization Proposal:
“The GREAT Trust: From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally,” The Washington Post (leaked document), 2025. https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f86dd56a-de7f-4943-af4a-84819111b727.pdf
Andrew Asmakov, “’Evil’ Proposal to Sell Gaza Land Via Crypto Tokens Met With Backlash,” Decrypt, July 7, 2025. https://cryptonews.net/news/finance/31226817/
“Palestinian death toll tops 66,000 as Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump,” NPR, September 28, 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-s1-5555960/gaza-death-toll-over-66000
