Blair urges White House to shift focus to Israel-Palestine conflict

[AlamoDemoc]

Patrick Wintour and Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday November 13, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1947191,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

Tony Blair has tonight made an open plea to George Bush to recognise that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies at the core of any hopes for wider peace in the Middle East, including Iraq.

Mr Blair, famously cautious about pressing the Republican administration in public, is trying to seize the rare indecision in Washington in response to the Democrat victories to persuade the White House to acknowledge the central importance of the Palestinian peace process.

[marmar]

1. You'd think Tony Blair would have learned his lesson by now...

You can't teach old neocons new tricks.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. I would agree....Blair has character deficiency and lacks political clout all round

[lapfog_1]

2. Ya all sure you want that, Tony?

Given Bush's success with previous Israeli/Palestinian issues, his raving success in Iraq, his diplomatic triumphs in Iran and North Korea, and his... oh hell, never mind. You probably DO want him to fuck this up worse.