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Exclusive: U.S. hawks seeking to block plan worry Blair
London By Mustapha Karkouti
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is keeping in close contact with U.S. President George W. Bush, to prevent U.S. hawks from killing the roadmap, a British source revealed.
Speaking exclusively to Gulf News, the source, who insisted on anonymity, said Republican hawks have been using everything in their power to undermine the administration's support for the new Middle East plan.
The road map, which was announced on Wednesday following the Palestinian Legislative Council endorsement of Mahmoud Abbas' (Abu Mazen) Palestinian cabinet, has been ready for almost a year but delayed --
at least on two occasions --
by the U.S. at the request of Israel's right-wing government.
Though they are small in number, the so-called neo-conservative group who work closely with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, have been very influential and seem to be the driving force behind U.S. foreign policy.
The source believes these hawks have begun pre-emptive moves to "sabotage the president's long-awaited declaration of the road map to put the Middle East peace process back on track".
The hawks' aim, according to the British source, is to suggest that the peace plan leading to create an independent Palestinian state by the year 2005 "is against U.S. national interests".
These charges have become worrying for Blair when two leading neo-conservatives closely linked to the Bush administration, former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich and a leader in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Tom Delay, started to sell this idea to the public.
Newt Gingrich used a speech last week to unleash a blistering attack on Colin Powell's State Department.
He said:
"Roadmap constitutes an attempt by state department's officials and overseas governments to work against U.S. policies."
Delay has warned Bush against pressing Israel to ease its crackdowns on the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to withdraw from some colonies, as called for in the roadmap.
He called the roadmap "a confluence of deluded thinking between European elites, elements within the State Department bureaucracy and a significant segment of the American intellectual community".
The British source said it has been known for a long time how the U.S. right feels and thinks of the "quartet's" partners, but the main concern, as far as Blair is concerned, is that these people might "win the president's ear at the last minute".
Blair, the source said, has been very keen to have the roadmap "up and running, even after the war in Iraq broke out".
Blair believed all along that by actively engaging the U.S. president in the Middle East peace plan, the alliance "could win minds and hearts of Arabs in the region".
The source told Gulf News that since the fall of Baghdad on April 9 and their meeting in North Ireland, the prime minister, has been on the phone every day with the president concerning the roadmap.
http://www.gulf-news.com/
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=86200
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