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Peace Process

Blair coming to push stalled Middle East peace train


By Stan Goodenough
December 17, 2006

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was scheduled to arrive in Israel Sunday night resolved to put his shoulder to the wheel of the stalled land-for-peace process which, he believes, holds the key to peace for the entire Middle East.

Blair, on a six nation tour of the region, flew from Egypt to Iraq for a surprise visit earlier Sunday, and promised that British forces would stay in that country until the fledgling democracy in Baghdad was strong enough to beat back the insurgents bent on undermining it.

His eyes, however, are fixed on Israel as the central cause of the violence wracking and threatening to ignite the entire Middle East.

Interestingly, while answering journalists questions in Iraq earlier, Blair was reportedly "rattled" when a Sky News editor suggested that the bloodshed in Iraq was "created by the American and British invasion" of that country.

Sky News siad that, "shaking his head, Mr Blair told gathered reporters: 'The bloodshed is created by terrorsts, insurgents and former supporters of Saddam Hussein...'

But the British leader appears unable or unwilling to see that, similarly, the bloodshed in Israel is created by the Muslim Arabs (and not just the "Palestinians" but all the Arabs in the region) who refuse to permit the existence of a Jewish state in their midst.

Blair has repeatedly stressed his determination to do whatever he can to help bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict before his term in office expires later next year.

Like Europeans and most other world leaders, he strongly supports the division of the Jews’ biblical homeland into two states – one for Jews, the other for Arabs.

This despite the fact that the Arabs already have 22 states totaling a landmass 640 times greater than the small piece of territory Israel calls its own.

While in Egypt, Blair said the Middle East was facing a “critical moment of decision.”

He said it was crucial to stability in the region that the conflict between Israel and “Palestine,” as he insists on calling half of the Jewish homeland, be resolved.

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