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- Oh Really, Just Like the Election of Hamas Was Recognized?
And yet if [Salam Fayyad] is to retain his legitimacy for any length of time, he will eventually need some sort of mandate from ordinary Palestinians. “In the end,” Tony Blair told me, “it all has to be endorsed in an election. Ultimately, the only legitimacy can come from democracy.” (more…)
- Blair Makes a Worthy Observation
He added one point not often made: that it was hard to see a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem if Israel did not turn over the Jordan Valley to be part of a future Palestinian state. Refugees wanting to return might have nowhere else to go, he argued. (more…)
- Is This Clown For Real?
“There is no alternative to a two-state solution, except the one-state solution. And if there is a one-state solution, there’s going to be a big fight,” Blair said after a meeting with European Union officials in Brussels. (more…)
- Glimpse of What is to Come
“I have no intention of building new settlements in the West Bank,” Netanyahu told Blair in a meeting Sunday. “But like all the governments there have been until now, I will have to meet the needs of natural growth in the population. I will not be able to choke the settlements.” (more…)
- Luisa Morgantini: Tony Blair Is Not Performing His Duty
It’s a very negative signal that the International Quartet Envoy Tony Blair’s planned trip to the Gaza was cancelled yesterday, Tuesday 15th July, following what was described as “specific security threats that made the visit impossible”. As a delegation of the European Parliament we visited, last June, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gaza Strip, West Bank [...]
- John Pilger: Stealing Diego Garcia
There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history’s [...]
- Comment: Blocking Blair
I wrote this last month and submitted it to the New York Times, LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle among others—all without a positive reply. * * * Easing into his new position as Special Envoy to the Middle-East, Tony Blair has wasted no time in pursuing a break in the ever-moribund peace process. Israeli [...]
