When we heard that Mr Anthony C.L. Blair was retiring as prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to be replaced by his fellow Scotsman, Mr J. Gordon Brown, we assumed that he would find a comfortable place on the "gravy-train" which usually serves to ensure that former prime ministers have a more than satisfactory income for many years after their retirement.
Although his highly qualified wife, the Queen's Counsel daughter of the well-known actor Tony Booth, also has very substantial earnings and she is also known for a streak of financial meanness, she is also believed to be amazingly extravagant when it comes to buying real property. Her latest purchasing spree has come at a time when his former government's policies have contributed to increase the severe losses in value on all housing arising from the sub-prime tsunami spreading around the world, especially in countries whose economies are closely linked to the ailing USA dollar. It is rumoured that Mr and Mrs Blair's investments in realty have caused them to suffer huge losses over the past few months, and, despite their large incomes, they are said to have entered into excessive mortgages to pay for their ambitions.
As if this was not enough for any man, Mr Blair now has a further problem arising from one of his own many and excessively well remunerated activities. It has been announced that he will not now carry out an intended official visit to the Gaza Strip because, so we are told, of "specific security threats". In case anyone has forgotten, Mr Blair was appointed by Mr George W. Bush's "Quartet" to pass on its decisions (otherwise known as Diktate) to the suffering people of occupied Palestine. I assume that his appointment to this seeming sinecure was his reward for having been such a faithful 'poodle' to successive Presidents of the USA, and that Mr Bush (and for that matter Mr Clinton) will always have considered that, if it turned out that there were any danger involved, Mr Blair was now expendable after having acted as their servile minion for so many years.
Mr Blair seemed happy to have meetings with the pathetically cowed Mr Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies as well as with the occupying invaders, but, although going to the Gaza Strip might have had genuine security implications, such a visit could, and this is vastly more important to his masters, have implied some form of recognition of Mr Haniyeh's government (which was democratically elected by the Palestinians living in the parts of their country occupied in 1967). Any such recognition would create serious difficulties for Mr Bush and his masters, since the last right which they wish to give to the people of Palestine is any say in their own future. According to Mr Bush himself, he wishes to spread freedom and democracy to the whole world, but he balks at bringing these rights and delights to those whom he refuses to accept as being full human-beings (such as the Palestinians).
Mr Blair will no doubt have been reminded that, after all, his simple task is to pass on each and every Diktat and to ensure that the Palestinians accept their sub-human status in a series of "Bantustans" in order to serve as an uncomplaining labour reserve for the invading "master race" who have established their "state of Israel". His going to the Gaza Strip could possibly have prevented the censors of the world's media (mostly tightly controlled by, or frightened into being subservient to, the highly effective Zionist propaganda machine) from covering up the effects of their miserable imprisonment on those trying to survive in that comparatively small area of land.
Apart from such obvious problems (to use a very mild word) as the severe and cruel restrictions on the movement of food and medical supplies and services, many ordinary people around the world have been prevented from knowing that the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip can neither move freely in or out of their prison nor even use their fishing boats to provide food for their own consumption. Furthermore, due to the collaboration of the present Egyptian rulers, entirely subservient to the Zionists, the people of the Gaza Strip cannot even freely cross the frontier into Egypt. Such a means of access could make life much simpler for everyone except the Zionists and their "allies" (such as the indecently complicit government of the USA).
Mr Blair will no doubt have been rapped across the knuckles for having imagined that he could go freely to pass the messages from the "Quartet" to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, but then he may not even know anything more than his masters tell him about the indigenous people of Palestine, and they may have ensured that he should remain in complete ignorance of what is happening in that part of the country.
His bothers are likely to get worse as he shows just how unsuitable a choice he was to communicate with a people to whose suffering he had contributed during his time in office in the United Kingdom by his overt support for the oppressors over many years. As I have previously written, it would solve so many problems for the world if he and his master, George W. Bush, could be brought before the International Criminal Court to face prosecution for their crimes under international law, most specifically under the Nuremberg Principles.
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