Are there two Tony Blairs?

Two recent events have convinced me that there isn’t a serious effort to get peace in the Middle East. To begin with Tony Blair was appointed, on the insistence of his minder in the White House, as a special “peace” envoy to the Middle East.

Within days his minder gave him a reminder that the “peace” part of his new title wasn’t to be taken too seriously when he was told that he shouldn’t hold talks with the democratically elected Hamas in Palestine.

But are there two Tony Blairs? The one I know launched an illegal invasion of Iraq which as so far killed an estimated 750,000 people and also deliberately delayed a peace settlement for the illegal, unprovoked and pre-planned invasion of the Lebanon by Israel last year. Giving the Israelis ample time to spread millions of cluster bombs around the countryside. I wonder if these two matters were mentioned on Blair’s CV when he applied for the post of a “peace envoy".
 
The other event, which causes me some doubt, is the appointment by Gordon Brown of David Miliband as Foreign Secretary. Already after just a few days he has accused Iran of trying to start a Middle East nuclear arms race on account of their mythical nuclear weapons. He also gone a little further and refused to rule out military action against Iran on account of their non-existent nuclear weapons, in other words another Iraq scam. No mention of course that the only Middle East country that really has nuclear weapons is Israel.
 
In an effort to appease his fellow North London Jews he’s gone so far as to “warn” Russia over their refusal to extradite a suspect in the Litvinenko case but seems completely oblivious to the fact that Russia has had extradition requests turned down for a number of people living in the UK including one who appears on Interpol’s “Most Wanted List”.
 
Miliband has also assured a visiting Israel member of Knesset, Dalia Itzik, that he’s totally against the University and College Union's vote in favour of considering a boycott of Israeli academics and institutions. I wonder how Miliband then feels about major Labour donors such as the TGWU and UNISON calling upon their members to boycott Israeli products? But then again who needs Union support when you’ve got Lord Levy.

I guess the message is, don’t expect any changes in Britain’s disastrous Middle East policy simply because we have a new Prime Minister.
 
Michael Mildred Oxford UK

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