25 June 2014 Commet to NYT op ed, June 25, 2014
New Yorks Times op ed “You’ve got to admire Tony Blair’s tenacity. Despite his terrible failures in Iraq and with the Palestinian Authority, the former British prime minister continues to pontificate about the Middle East’s ills and cures.
Seven years after he was appointed as the special envoy for the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers (the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia), the occupied territories of Palestine are still under siege. And 11 years after he co-sponsored the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the country is falling apart.
Comment follows:
The soulless Tony Blair lives on intoxicated by the siren song of limitless wealth using his political connections to maximum advantage. He has not uttered one word critical of the Israeli government’s recent actions conducting raids in the Occupied Territories and the West Bank arresting over 360 Palestinians, and killing at least four. It is a horrific example of collective punishment. This action was taken in response to the alleged kidnapping of three settler teenagers. No one is even sure that they have been kidnapped but Israel accuses Hamas to be responsible – without a shred of evidence. It is blatantly obvious that this action was taken to weaken Hamas and destroy the fragile unity government. People in Ramallah are experiencing Israeli raids for the first time. There is almost a complete lockdown in Hebron. This is a gross violation of international law; to subject over two million Palestinians in the West Bank that have nothing to do with the alleged kidnapping which might not have even taken place. Predictably, Tony Blair, who has sold his soul to Israel, remains silent. Let us hope that Obama stiffens his spine and demands an immediate end to Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinians
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