Former British envoy Jeremy Greenstock has revealed that former prime minister Tony Blair asked the Palestinian Authority to remove the name “Palestine” from school textbooks and use Samaria instead, the biblical name for the occupied West Bank. In an interview published by Middle East Eye on Wednesday, Greenstock questioned Blair’s ability to act as a neutral mediator, saying he was facing “difficulties” in his role overseeing post-war Gaza. Greenstock, who served as Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said: “He recently, I understand, was asked by the Board of Peace to go to Ramallah and ask to remove from the Palestinian curriculum any mention of the word Palestine if they were to be treated by the […]
