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Lebanon and Israel

Asked how serious a schism there was considering what John Bolton had said on Radio 4 thing morning regarding the US allowing the Israelis to bomb Lebanon until Hizbollah had been removed but yet that was contradicted by a foreign Minister saying that that was not the US position, the PMOS said that the position on Lebanon was exactly as we expressed it at the time. What we had wanted was a cease fire on all sides but it had to be a cease fire on all sides. It had to also resulted in Hizbollah abiding by the will of the UN, which was not for a militarised zone. Asked if it was not the case that one side of this, the Americans, had played fast and loose with the special relationship, the PMOS said that he would not get involved in commentating on the comments of an ex-member of the US administration. What the PMOS would do was reiterate what was said at the time, that it only made sense to call for a cease fire on all sides, not one side, as that would not work.

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What a clown Bolton is(watch him on Question Time tonight or on Comedy Central being interviewed by Jon Stewart. The horror is that Blair is in thrall to people like this. The link below is a good indicator of where the responsibility of the atrocities in Lebanon really belong:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2B1EB357-6C6C-46C4-BA67-568774A08F7E.htm
Comment by Rob — 22 Mar 2007 on 9:43 pm | Link

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