Tony the coward

I have just learned that Tony Blair, former UK premier and now special envoy for Palestine, had not been in Gaza since the inception of his mandate. Finally, two years later, he dared to enter the besieged zone, but only a mile, just a little bit, and then... back to the safety of Israel. This is what I would call a courageous guy. Well done Tony, you are earning your salary and probably you will enter into History for your peace endeavours. I f I understand well, your job is to promote peace in the Middle East. And you plan to do that by going into the area, probably staying in a luxury hotel in the Jewish Sate, take five-o'clock-tea with your Jewish friends and, occasionally, with Mahmud Abbas, the Fatah leader. But you don't dare to see how a trapped people, mostly disarmed, in the most densely populated area of the world, has been massacred by an army with jet fighters, heavy armoured tanks and rockets filled with white phosphorous.

Probably your senses are too delicate to see the maimed children, the wanton destruction, the filthy refugee camps, the foul odour, the ruin of so many lives. Probably you'll get dirty shaking hands with the Palestinians. You may not sleep well afterwards.