Bush and Blair back Sharon - Unions must condemn Blair!
By John O'Mahony The decision of the Sharon government, with the backing of the USA and Britain, to impose on the Palestinian people an Israeli "solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will, if it goes ahead, lead to further generations of conflict between Israel on the one side and the Palestinians and the Arab world on the other. Israel is to withdraw from Gaza, uprooting the Israeli settlements there but keeping military outposts. The major Israeli settlements in the West Bank, some of them deep in Palestinian territory, will stay. Israel will annex a sizeable part of the area on...