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November 10, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/opinion/10safi.html

After Arafat, Hope

(New York Times) - William Safire Here comes Tony Blair to Washington. In Iraq, the gutsy Brit stands shoulder to shoulder with the U.S., at considerable political cost at home. Blair needs a big favor to get the Bush-haters in Britain off his back, so welcomed Bush's re-election with "the need to revitalize the Middle East peace process is the single most pressing political challenge in our world today." That means: Let's you, me, Vladimir Putin, and Kofi Annan get together and tell Sharon to re-offer the old Barak-Clinton deal to whichever Palestinian will listen. Then the Muslim violence will stop all over the world. C'mon, Tony; we don't thank one big ally by selling out a smaller one.

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