Tony Blair Turns Appeaser? (1 Viewer)

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

· Palestinian peace process 'central to Iraq solution'
· Syria and Iran also have a role to play, says PM

Patrick Wintour and Richard Norton-Taylor
Tuesday November 14, 2006
The Guardian

Tony Blair made an open plea yesterday 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.
In his annual foreign policy speech, seen as a chance to recalibrate Britain's Iraq strategy, Mr Blair said a solution to the conflict was central to a strategy that "pins back the forces trying to create mayhem inside Iraq".

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1947191,00.html

The sad thing about this is that Blair was told, and as an intelligent man must have known, that the key to the Middle East was always the Arab-Israeli conflict and that entering Iraq would do nothing but further destabilize the region.

He should have been advising this three years ago, but now I guess he's a little more worried about his historical legacy so he has to appear more "Satesman-like."
 
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