Tony Blair hasn’t yet started working as a peace envoy to the Middle East of the so-called Quartet - the US, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - in a bid to revive peace talks, and fingers have already started pointing against this move, which appears controversial to most (including me).
Arabs have straightforwardly questioned that whether the former British PM Tony Blair would be able to work as a neutral entity, considering his close alliance and intimacy with Israel as well as US administration in the past.
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher wholly ruled out the appointment of Blair, as biased.
This was a way for the Americans to honor his friendship but I think they should have found a better way to honor him, a way where he would have a chance of success, and I honestly don’t believe he has any chance of success.
Though, it would be too early to predict the trustworthiness of Blair (as I don’t believe in predictions, which mostly turn false at the end) as envoy to the region, however, one cannot just overlook too many inquiries about a person before placing him in such an important position.
I don’t know whether we should laugh or cry.
Aforesaid words of Clare Short, former international development secretary in Blair’s govt., are more than adequate to sum up Blair’s credibility as envoy to a highly sensitive region, struggling for peace and normalcy for decades now.
