MPs condemn Blair's failure to insist on Israeli ceasefire
Lebanon-Israel-UK, Politics, 7/20/2006

An all-party group of UK MPs has said it was "deeply alarmed" by the inadequate statements made by Prime Minister Tony Blair regarding the escalating conflict in the Middle East.

"It is disgraceful that the British Government has failed to join the majority of the international community in calling all sides to an immediate ceasefire," the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU) said.

"This glaring omission in Blair's statement could be seen as condoning the continued disproportionate use of force employed by the Israeli army and the collective punishment of both Lebanese and Palestinian civilians," it said in a statement today.

CAABU said that the failure by Blair "effectively gives the green light to further killings of Arab civilians in far greater numbers." "Not only that, but the Prime Minister's analysis of the situation is deeply flawed as it ignores Israel's role in this crisis, not least the huge numbers of Palestinian civilians they killed in Gaza before any Israeli soldier was kidnapped," it said.

The all-party group warned that Israel had "gone far beyond defending itself" by heavily targeting civilian infrastructure, the Lebanese army, and Christian areas of Lebanon.

"Blair's acquiescence of Israeli war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon will only harden the view that increasingly the British Government values Israeli lives more than Arab ones," it said.

Chris Doyle, Director of CAABU warned that "the outcome of all this will be hugely dangerous to British interests and security and could potentially unleash extremist forces far greater than already seen in this conflict."

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