The appointment of Tony Blair is an insult to ALL Palestinians. First he should admit Britian central role in the tragedy that is Palestine.

Tony Blair, the man who followed George Bush in his war against Iraq for the wrong reasons and the one who was part of the lies and fraud of the Bush administration as it waged its public relation campaign to sell its lies in justifications of the invasion. All to please the Zionist-NeoCons in the US and to please the Tel-Aviv mafia in the US Congress and administration. This is the same Tony Blair who stood by silently and in fact supported and promoted Israel’s continued destructions of Lebanon with the use of more than one million cluster bombs gifts from George Bush and Condy Rice to the people of Lebanon. This is the same Tony Blair who could not have the courage and never did have the courage to stand up and once condemn Israel’s daily campaign of murder and destructions against the Palestinian people. This is the same Tony Blair who refuses to admit Britain central role in the tragedy of the Palestinians people. Now this man is the envoy of the Quartet to the Middle East. This must be a bad joke.
From what I understand from the media and what is written about his mission to the Middle East, Tony Blair will not have what it takes to tackle the real issues in the conflict, such as the Israeli military occupation that has lasted over 40 years, and he will not have the power to address the issues of the more than 525 military checkpoints that strangle the people before it strangle the economy, and of course he will not have the power to address the Israeli cancer in the form of settlements that left hardly any room or water for the Palestinians.
Tony Blair mission is to do capacity building of an incompetent and totally corrupt Palestinian Authority that has no sense of shame of having someone like Tony Blair comes to Ramallah and tell them how to organize traffic in Manara Square or help the Palestinian Authority to organize and manage its non-existing legal and justice system.
One only has to wonder what Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization were doing all these 40 years? One has to wonder what Mr. Abbas and Abu-Ala’a where doing all of these years in Beirut, and in Tunis if not preparing for the day they will come to Ramallah and manage a country? One has to wonder what the PLO leadership would have done if they really liberated Palestine and arrived from Tunis to run and manage a recently liberated country and not a country under occupation?
It is an insult for the Palestinian people to have such a leadership that is in need to have some outside expert like Tony Blair, help them organize their institutions and agencies, when the older generations of Palestinians was the first to help the Gulf countries do capacity buildings.
The Palestinian Authority been there for over 14 years and still does not know how to organize and run a traffic department, let alone organize and administer an independent efficient legal and justice system. Something wrong happened to the Palestinian people under the leadership of the PLO, it simply destroyed whatever good we have as people. The Palestinian Authority, under the control and undo and toxic influence of Fatah could have done better inviting thousand of Diaspora Palestinian professionals to help in capacity buildings. The Jews and Jews alone helped made Israel what it is now, and did not need someone like Tony Blair to help its capacity building. This reminds me of the time when the late Arafat on his first visit to Britain, full of excitement to the point of mental breakdown and retardation, when the only thing he could ask Britain to do for him was to train his “security forces” when he should have reminded Britain of its crimes against the Palestinians people and its Belfour Declaration and demanded hundreds of billions of dollars in compensation.
I wonder what kind of capacity building could someone like Tony Blair do, perhaps he can improve the efficiency and ability of the Palestinian Authority to fleece the people under occupation. No one can help Palestine in its capacity building but Palestinians. Fatah and the PLO have to admit they are simply unfit and unqualified to rule and manage a country. 40 years of Fatah leadership is more than enough.