Tony Blair Cancelled His Gaza Visit At The Request Of The Zionist Regime

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Tony Blair Cancelled His Gaza Visit At The Request Of The Zionist Regime

July 16, 2008

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, said that Tony Blair, the international quartet committee's envoy, had cancelled his visit to Gaza at the request of Israeli premier Ehud Olmert and his army leaders so as not to witnesses for himself the disastrous consequences of siege.

Haneyya told Ramattan news agency in a televised interview on Tuesday that his government had adopted all necessary security preparations to ensure success of Blair's visit but "we were surprised at the massive pressures on him and we were surprised to see him return (without entering Gaza)".

The premier said that he had hoped that the visit would take place so that the international envoy would see for himself the destructive effects of the Israeli siege so that he would pressure the quartet committee to adopt daring decisions to lift the oppression befalling the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, had stressed that Blair's declaration of his intention to visit Gaza had announced failure of the political isolation imposed on Hamas.

The caretaker government had announced in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation along with "other parties" had pressured Blair to cancel his visit so as not to witness results of the Israeli crimes and at the same time so as not to see for himself the high level of security and discipline the Strip enjoys.

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Meanwhile, Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, on Wednesday asserted that his Movement was not interested in having a new deal with Israel as long as it did not respect the calm agreement.

He told Al-Quds radio station that the calm agreement should be implemented in full including the opening of all crossings together with the Rafah border terminal.

Israeli sources said that Hamas had frozen the prisoners' exchange negotiations through Egyptian mediation and told Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman that it would not send its delegation this week to Cairo because it needs more time to think (over the issue).

An Israeli official said that Hamas's step was meant to pressure Egypt to open the Rafah border terminal between Egypt and Gaza Strip.

Hamas had earlier held Israel fully responsible for delaying the prisoners' swap deal and asked Cairo to pressure Tel Aviv to stop wasting time.

Source: esinislam.com + Agencies

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