Bush Showed Near-Zero Interest in Middle East Peace ... It Was Nothing Short of Catastrophic ; Lord Levy, Who Talked to Both Sides As Middle East Envoy, Gives His Astute Analysis of the Current Crisis

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BEFORE this week, I had cried only a handful of times in my adult life: when my parents died and, yes, once or twice during the ordeal of trial-by-leak before being finally exonerated over Labour's 'cash for peerages' allegations. But to watch the televised horror of innocent Palestinians and Israelis facing terror, injury or death has brought tears to my eyes.

They are tears both of sadness and anger.

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Bush Showed Near-Zero Interest in Middle East Peace ... It Was Nothing Short of Catastrophic ; Lord Levy, Who Talked to Both Sides As Middle East Envoy, Gives His Astute Analysis of the Current Crisis

Sadness at the terrible human cost of this latest Middle East war, and the further, perhaps final, blow it is dealing to any short- term prospect for a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace. And anger, a deep and burning anger, over the countless negotiating opportunities lost on all ...

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