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Labour Action for Peace was founded 1940 as an organisation of Labour Party members and supporters working for peace, socialism and disarmament, and seeking to make these issues the forefront of Labour Party policy.
Palestine
What Hope for a United Palestine?
Can Tony Blair as New 'Envoy to Quartet' bring unity between Gaza and the West Bank? Will Israel continue to divide and rule the occupied territories?
Lord Levy, the former special envoy to the Middle East for the then UK Blair government was conspicuously useless in that role as peace broker, and his neutrality between the warring parties highly questionable.
As chief fund raiser for the Labour Party, his role if any in the 'cash-for-honours' saga has been part of the police investigations.
Tony Blair comes to his 'new job' with considerable and controversial baggage from the Arab viewpoint. He followed President George W Bush into the invasion of Iraq on dubious and heavily manipulated security information (the dodgy dossier). The pair of war leaders had no strategy to create the peace in Iraq and form an orderly administration once the fighting was over. Tony Blair stood firmly with George W Bush against the United Nations call for an early cease fire in the recent attack on Lebanon by Israel, thus resulting in Israel's devastation of Southern Lebanon.
The recent clashes between Fata and Hamas have exacerbated the problems and provided an excuse for Israel's 'divide and rule' tactics.
The way forward now is for the European Union and Russia to break away from US policy of 'starving' the population of Gaza into submission as a collective punishment for voting Hamas, and to hold forthright and open talks with the Hamas democratically elected administration in Gaza, and resume direct funding for the welfare of the state and its long suffering peoples.
One person's 'terrorist' is another persom's 'freedom fighter'.
Israel must stop its assassinations of Hamas leaders and in addition negotiate a return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
Some useful links:
BBC Report Lord Levy 'Guardian' Report Lord LevyHomepage