How World Can Trust Tony Blair As Quartet Rep to Middle East After He Backed Bush’s Massacre in Iraq

"A true friend of the State of Israel," said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Tony Blair as he was appointed as special envoy for the Middle East Quartet. It should not come as a surprise that Israeli government officials welcome Blair to his new job. Although he has long claimed to be interested in supporting justice for the Palestinians, Blair has an unremitting record of bias towards Israel. After George W. Bush, Blair is probably the most disliked and distrusted individual, among Palestinians as well as in the Arab world in general. This stems not only from his role in the Iraq war, but because he has swallowed the neoconservative agenda whole, becoming one of the leading proponents of a "clash of civilizations" between the West and the Islamic world. All the language of Blair’s appointment describes the conflict not as one generated by Israeli occupation and colonialism — something a more courageous former leader Jimmy Carter has characterized as "apartheid" -- but one of Palestinian failure, and a need for "institutional reform." This suits Israel perfectly because Blair, with his fake pro-Palestinian tones, is actually helping Israel to blame the victim by changing the subject from the brutal Israeli military rule that makes normal Palestinian life impossible. Blair's anti-Palestinian bias began early in his political career. During his time as prime minister, Blair regularly consulted a pro-Israel lobby group, Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). He has ...

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