Labour leader Ed Miliband rightly criticized David Cameron
for not speaking out against the slaughter by the Israeli Defence Force of over
1,750 innocent Palestinian civilians - children, women and men- in just three
weeks military offensive.
But surely Mr Miliband should not have attended the lavish 60th birthday party for his wife Cherie thrown by
his former Party leader Tony Blair- now the middle east ‘Peace Envoy’ for
Palestine - at their £6 million grade
I-listed mansion on 25 July, while Palestinians were being slaughtered in Gaza.
Cherie’s birthday actually
does not fall until 23 September, so Mr Blair could easily have postponed such a
party event, and concentrated on the essential
mediating in the deadly mayhem in Gaza
from his Jerusalem base of the so-called Quartet Representative whose role
includes “promoting economic growth and job creation in the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip and supporting the institution-building agenda of the Palestinian
Authority.”
Mr Blair finally
returned to Jerusalem on 29 July. He has visited Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority territory on the
West Bank and Cairo since Israel began
its devastating attacks on 8 July in ‘Operation
Protective Edge’, but has not once visited Gaza. Why not? And why does Mr Miliband
not loudly complain about Mr Blair’s lack of intervention to save Palestinians?
Maybe he did at the lavish
party, but I doubt it.
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