Was Blair told of Israel's plan to bomb Lebanon?

This is being to smell like the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
If this is true Blair should resign immediately.
Perhaps GB might have the guts to stand up and be counted.
Good luck to the anti-war marchers today.

The ridiculous notion that Tony Liar is postponing his holidays to 'sort out the middle east' makes me despair.

This man is more concerned that there will be a coup in the Labour party while he is away.

He has zero regard for Arabs/Persians/Moslems (anyone in fact, other than his own), and of course he is complicit with US/Israel.

The man is nothing more than a war criminal, and has been for at least 3 years.

British people are responsible for this man being in power, no one else. If you did not vote at the last general election you are directly responsible for this man being in power. If you voted Labour at the last general election you are guilty of aiding and abetting in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It is more than just the Israelis informing the US of their plans: the Israeli attacks on Palestine and Lebanon are far too large to be mere reactions to kidnap of their soldiers; the attacks must have been planned a long time in advance. The US must have been complicit in this, providing the armaments, satellite and other reconnaissance together with diplomatic and logistical support. As 1st lieutenant, the UK will have been fully aware of what was going on from an early stage. Blair will have known of the plans for a long time.

Since his days at Oxford, Tony Blair has been an MI5 man. He infiltrated the Labour party as an MI5 plant, from whence he proceeded to inform on the activites of his more left-wing 'comrades'.

Blair's rise to power, and his grip on it, has been facilitated by some unfortunate deaths; John Smith, David Kelly and Robin Cook to name a few of the more well known ones. This might explain Gordon Brown's complete lack of balls in taking him on.

The CIA, MI5 and Mossad have all colluded to create the 'war on terror' including 9/11, 7/7 and 7/11.

Blair is a fully signed-up New Ager, as is his wife. They have both attended 'mystic' ceromonies and Blair has also had spritual 'readings'.

Blair recently attended Bohemian Grove at the tax payers expense, no doubt looking for a job amongst the so called elite. He will probably end up[ running the IMF, world bank, or god forbid, the new Bolton made UN.

British people have become as apathetic and dumbed down as their American cousins thanks to this man. He has single handidly destroyed parlimentary democracy in the UK and yet the British people vote for more of it.

Anyone that suggests he is just a vain glory seeker do him a great service by keeping peoples eyes off the real Tony Blair.

MI5 you say? Well I have long wondered what this man was about. If you are correct, I think I now know what he is up to. How a man of his kind made it to being a Labour PM was a bit of a mystery. His actions make sense if you consider him as an Neo-Con, Christian wacko MI5 agent,

John Kampfner must be catching up with the news then : Informed Comment 23 July : War on Lebanon Planned for at least a Year - The Bush Administration's Grand Strategy and the Birth Pangs of Terror

Its all part of Blame the Victims - International Policy In Action

The wording of the UN resolution addressing the Israel/Lebanon issue appears to be nearing completion. Apparently France and the US have been arguing over the text - why? Prehaps because the US will not be letting any responsibility for the situation fall on the Israelis.

Anything the US is involved in is bound to support their (incorrect) view of the situation, thereby rendering it completely unacceptable to Hisbollah. This is of course what the US/Israel want, a resolution that is unacceptable to anyone except the Israelis.

It is ridiculous in the first instance that the US is involved in drafting the resolution as they have clearly shown their support for Israel. Just as it's ridiculous to think that Tony Bliar, by delaying his holiday he can have a positive effect on the outcome.

The press seems to think that when a bunch of diplomats sign a bit of paper in NY drafted to the likeing of the US that things are going to change on the ground - what nonsense.

I'm sorry to sound like a cynic as I have not even seen what the resolution is going to say, but can anyone be confident that it will be even-handed and offer a solution? To me it appears that the US are going through the motions (as slowly as possible) as a PR excercise.

Radio 5 interviewing a Stop The War organiser:

"A resolution has been agreed by the US and France, you must be delighted"
*pause*
"If it says that Israel are allowed to keep 6 miles of Lebanon, then no, we're not"

The BBC line is that we were all nice people marching for peace, and on being assured that Blair and Bush are working terribly hard for it we'll all go home smiling. I can assure you that while the behaviour was (mostly) impeccable, the mood was rowdy, angry and extremely pissed off. More later when I've got the photos up somewhere.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, some details have emerged off the UN resolution.

After a full week of negotiating they come up with this. Pathetic, criminal and inhuman.

"France gave up its desire for a blanket halt to violence, agreeing for the resolution to give Israel the right to conduct defensive operations..."

Well, after the last three weeks We all now know what Israeli 'defensive operations' are likely to be - more bombing of innocent civilians, i.e people exactly like you and me.

How on earth can this be accepted by any sane human being. I really don't know why the UN bothers anymore, this is just the biggest insult possible for the Lebanese, they must feel so wretched and isolated, does no one pity them?

here's a quote of the text of the UN resolution, read it and weep:

"calls for a full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular, the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations."

Notice anything that's not quite fair? This is not worth the paper it's written on. The press seems happy though. Reading some of the articles this morning most are already blaming Hesbollah for any future failure.

Obviously Israel is happy with it too, here's the Justice (sic) Minister:

"Even if it is passed, it is doubtful that Hezbollah will honour the resolution and halt its fire," he said.

"Therefore we have to continue fighting, continue hitting anyone we can hit in Hezbollah, and I assume that as long as that goes on, Israel's standing, diplomatically and militarily, will improve."

Can you beleive that, what he is saying is that the more they bomb and kill the Lebanese the greater Isreal's standing will be. This is double-speak gone mad.

It won't be too long now before we are at war with the Shanghi Cooperation Organisation members - the only real threat to US global hegemony.

interesting - this new UN resolution blair has been working on, if you take a look at the not so small print, it provides for the attack syria or iran .. how it makes it 'illegal' for any arms sales to any one other than the lebanese government.

seems they really do want to legitimise their iran/syria war and this is what the resolution does. amazing no one in the uk news media is picking this up ..

Condi Rice commenting on the woefully inadequate UN resolution, which gives everything to the Israelis, including their continued use of military force (what was the resolution for again?), reveals its real purpose - which is to put Hisbollah in breach of the UN therefore legitimising the continuing attacks on Lebanon, and probably Syria in the near future.

"This resolution will show who is for peace and who is against." Quite, there can be no mistaking who is not for peace. She could hardly conceal the smirk on her face as she spoke. Absoulutely sickening.

Text of the UN draft resolution is available here.

That was not how Blair said the Lebanon crisis arose in his LA speech last week.

Accusing the PM of lying. Tsk tsk.

But none of Israel's air-strikes are "offensive", according to official doctrine. There is nothing it's calling them to cease, whilst Hezbollah, on the other hand, must cease "all attacks", whatever their purpose.

Every bomb the Israelis have dropped or will drop is "defensive", apparently -- even the ones they exploded on the UN observers.

The fact that this incident goes unmentioned in the UN resolution is very significant.