‘Learn from us: jaw-jaw is better than war-war’…

LESSONS learned in Northern Ireland need to be learned in the Middle East, Tony Blair said the other day. He told the Commons: “It’s interesting to think ten years ago it looked like the Palestinian peace process was in better shape than that in Northern Ireland. I think the lesson of the last ten years is that unless people are put into a process which ensures continual dialogue then the danger is that the extremes take over because there is a political vacuum there.” So there you go; dialogue, no matter how meaningless, is always better than conflict.

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