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Asked the Prime Minister’s view of events in Israel in the last twenty-four hours, the PMOS said that what had happened was clearly a setback. He was obviously concerned that the situation did not escalate – hence the wide call for restraint. As the Foreign Secretary had underlined yesterday, we condemned the targeted assassination. As Northern Ireland had shown, a political solution was only possible if a violence-free space was created in order to allow dialogue to take place. It went without saying that holding talks against a backdrop of violence on both sides would not enable political progress to be made. Obviously that was not to suggest that these weren’t very difficult issues. Clearly they were. Everyone knew what the prize was. Getting there was obviously a lot harder than wishing those ends. Asked if the Prime Minister thought that President Bush had not focussed as much as he could have done on the Middle East over the past year, the PMOS pointed out that it was the President who had set out the two-state solution and published the roadmap. These were obviously complex, difficult issues. People were continuing to work hard to try to find a way forward.

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Blair isn’t really leading anyone anywhere with this publicity stunt in the sand. It’s an attempt to get people to imagine that there’s been significant progress in middle eastern politics due to the war in Iraq. What is required is that Blair tell the truth. In effect a full confession as to HIS motives for going into war (geopolitical and personal). Until he does so he is disabled as a leader just when we need one.

Furthermore he needs to tell Bush to get very very serious with the Israeli’s and tell them to evacuate the West Bank and publically call Ariel Sharon a direct threat to British security (through terrorist polarisation along JudeaChristian-Islamic lines) otherwise we will very publically pull out of the coalition citing the moronic and non introspective nature of the Bush/Rumsfeld strategy. This is leadership.

Leadership, in this instance, requires the truth.
Not bullshit.
Blair’s trip to Libya was bullshit, yet more nonsense from a nonsensical paralysed visionless nonentity awaiting his extirpation from office as soon as the terrorist war hots up.
Comment by david higgins — 26 Mar 2004 on 8:06 pm | Link

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