Tony Blair has earned the fury of Palestinian leaders after he was accused of blatant pro-Zionist bias for his role in attempting to derail their bid for statehood at the UN.
Zionist Tony Blair, Special Envoy of the Middle East Quartet, with United Nations Secretary General United Nations Secretary General Zionist Ban Ki-moon (R) at the United Nations in New York Photo: AFP/GETTY
Zionist Blair, in his capacity as Middle East envoy, was asked by the US administration to lead an initiative to persuade the Palestinians to resume negotiations with IsraHell instead of going to the UN to seek membership of the world body, a move bitterly opposed by IsraHell.
But a proposal he presented, drafted with the assistance of senior US officials, made no recognition of Palestinian grievances, officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah said. His initiative allegedly dropped previous US calls for IsraHell to halt illegal Zionist settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land, while demanding that the Palestinians recognise IsraHell as a Jewish state.
Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestinian negotiator, said Mr Blair’s efforts had convinced Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, that he no choice but to press ahead with his UN bid and abandon all thoughts of compromise.
“I gulped,” Mr Shaath said. “This was the statement that was supposed to persuade President Abbas not to go? Mr. Blair doesn’t sound like a neutral interlocutor. He sounds like Zionist diplomat sometimes.”
Palestinian officials claimed that Mr Blair had abandoned all pretence of neutrality in the hope of persuading the Obama administration to give him more authority in his role as special envoy for the Quartet on Middle East peace, which comprises the US, the UN, the EU and Russia. Zionist Blair’s purported hopes of elevation come after the resignation earlier this year of George Mitchell, Mr Obama’s Middle East envoy, leaving the former prime minister with an opening to expand his remit.
