The Diplomats are Coming. Quick, Look Busy.
Last time Blair held a peace conference Israel wasn't invited. But now that some filthy terrorist has finally died, the Jews are welcome again:
Blair is likely to exert pressure on Israeli leaders to attend the London Middle East Peace Conference scheduled to take place next month. On Monday, Sharon said that although Israel supports the conference it would not take part in it.
In fact, Sharon conditioned his support for the conference only on the Brit's promise that it would have nothing to do with the Road Map. Instead, they swore up and down that the conference would be limited only to discussing realistic Palestinian reforms. Problem: what are they going to discuss after the first couple of hours? Solution: cheat:
Blair on Wednesday emphasized the role that Britain would like to fulfill on the road to a Middle Eastern peace, explaining that the London conference scheduled for early next year is a preparatory step towards getting back into road map..."My purpose is not simply to hold a meeting or conference," Blair said. "My purpose is to help the Palestinian Authority and its people, so that they can develop a viable Palestinian state, and then get back into the road map.
In the meantime, Blair is still somehow making his Israeli hosts all warm and fuzzy by actually suggesting that any peace deal should probably involve some sort of Palestinian promise not to kill Jews:
Standing next to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Wednesday, Blair didn't seem at all like a man interested in turning up the heat on his host... "There is not going to be successful negotiations or peace without an end to terrorism," Blair said. "The world has changed in these past few years."
This is really what we've come to - "support" for Israel is "not pressuring them to completely surrender to terrorists". Apparently the pressure rolls downhill from the Palestinians, through the British, until it collides with Israel:
Blair arrived in Jerusalem last night from Iraq, and constrained by a very tight schedule this morning will meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Originally he was to have met only with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but according to a senior government source, the British gave in to heavy pressure from senior political figures and agreed to meet with them.
Who exactly are these senior political figures who can force the Prime Minister of Great Britain to meet with a non-existent, stateless political faction that still has very obvious and very close ties to terrorists? Are they British? French? Palestinian? Isn't it far more likely that Blair intended to meet with Palestinian leaders all along? And shouldn't someone ask him?
Blair is likely to exert pressure on Israeli leaders to attend the London Middle East Peace Conference scheduled to take place next month. On Monday, Sharon said that although Israel supports the conference it would not take part in it.
In fact, Sharon conditioned his support for the conference only on the Brit's promise that it would have nothing to do with the Road Map. Instead, they swore up and down that the conference would be limited only to discussing realistic Palestinian reforms. Problem: what are they going to discuss after the first couple of hours? Solution: cheat:
Blair on Wednesday emphasized the role that Britain would like to fulfill on the road to a Middle Eastern peace, explaining that the London conference scheduled for early next year is a preparatory step towards getting back into road map..."My purpose is not simply to hold a meeting or conference," Blair said. "My purpose is to help the Palestinian Authority and its people, so that they can develop a viable Palestinian state, and then get back into the road map.
In the meantime, Blair is still somehow making his Israeli hosts all warm and fuzzy by actually suggesting that any peace deal should probably involve some sort of Palestinian promise not to kill Jews:
Standing next to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Wednesday, Blair didn't seem at all like a man interested in turning up the heat on his host... "There is not going to be successful negotiations or peace without an end to terrorism," Blair said. "The world has changed in these past few years."
This is really what we've come to - "support" for Israel is "not pressuring them to completely surrender to terrorists". Apparently the pressure rolls downhill from the Palestinians, through the British, until it collides with Israel:
Blair arrived in Jerusalem last night from Iraq, and constrained by a very tight schedule this morning will meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Originally he was to have met only with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but according to a senior government source, the British gave in to heavy pressure from senior political figures and agreed to meet with them.
Who exactly are these senior political figures who can force the Prime Minister of Great Britain to meet with a non-existent, stateless political faction that still has very obvious and very close ties to terrorists? Are they British? French? Palestinian? Isn't it far more likely that Blair intended to meet with Palestinian leaders all along? And shouldn't someone ask him?
