The Observer<\/a> et pour revenir \u00e0 des choses moins s\u00e9rieuses, le dernier tournant en double S ou en simple W de Tony Blair:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab Britain dramatically broke ranks with George Bush last night over the Lebanon crisis, publicly criticising Israel’s military tactics and urging America to ‘understand’ the price being paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The remarks, made in Beirut by the Foreign Office minister, Kim Howells, were the first public criticism by this country of Israel’s military campaign, and placed it at odds with Washington’s strong support. The Observer can also reveal that Tony Blair voiced deep concern about the escalating violence during a private telephone conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, last week. But sources close to Blair said Olmert had replied that Israel faced a dire security threat from the Hizbollah militia and was determined to do everything necessary to defeat it.<\/em> (…) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Downing Street sources said last night that Blair still believed Israel had every right to respond to the missile threat, and held the Shia militia responsible for provoking the crisis by abducting two Israeli soldiers and firing rockets into Israel. But they said they had no quarrel with Howells’s scathing denunciation of Israel’s military tactics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Speaking to a BBC reporter before travelling on for talks in Israel, where he will also visit the missile-hit areas of Haifa and meet his Israeli opposite number, Howells said: The destruction of the infrastructure, the death of so many children and so many people: these have not been surgical strikes. If they are chasing Hizbollah, then go for Hizbollah. You don’t go for the entire Lebanese nation. The minister added: I very much hope that the Americans understand what’s happening to Lebanon.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab Britain’s decision to break ranks publicly with the Americans will cause deep concern in Jerusalem, and a senior Israeli diplomat was at pains last night to play down any suggestion of a rift. He said it would be wrong to interpret Olmert’s response to Blair’s telephone call as a rebuff. The tone was very positive. We agree on all major aspects of this crisis and are greatly appreciative of Britain’s position.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 23 juillet 2006 \u00e0 13H23<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les temps ont donc chang\u00e9. Tony Blair, us\u00e9 jusqu’\u00e0 la corde, n’est plus du tout \u00e0 l’aise dans sa position de soutien inconditionnel \u00e0 la ligne US, lorsque celle-ci se r\u00e9sume \u00e0 un soutien inconditionnel \u00e0 la ligne isra\u00e9lienne. D’o\u00f9 cet \u00e9tonnant \u00e9pisode : un ministre de Blair condamne nettement la politique isra\u00e9lienne au Liban… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,5669,3198,2774,5668],"class_list":["post-67785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-burberry","tag-gw","tag-israel","tag-tricot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}