Must say, however, that the message would be more effective without a few of the signatories. Jenny Tonge in particular is an anti-Semitic nutcase.

a great history in global development. She's just part of the in-thing today: pro-Palestinians.

All I know is that I find the partisans on both sides of that dispute very off-putting.

I agree that Tony Blair should be removed as Middle East peace envoy, and did a little google a couple of weeks ago to see if I could find a petition on this very subject. Found one on the Downing St website that talked mainly about Israel. As my opposition to Blair has pretty much nothing to do with Israel I decided not to sign that petition.

Both sides (at the extremes) are a bit too much, and just feed into each other's prolongation of the conflict.

My problem with JT is not that she's pro-Palestinian, but that she goes into all sorts of conspiracy theories, like that the Israelis were engaged in organ-theft in Haiti.

Blair needs to be out yesterday!

In the past, there was the anti-Palestinian pro-Israeli crowd--post 1948 until early 1990s. Now the trend has reversed.