Tony ‘St George’ Blair

To witness Tony Blair defending Israel during PM's Question Time in the House of Commons was like witnessing St. George slaying dragons right and left, His eloquent and succinct ripostes to Conservatives and Labor Left ideologues agitated by the fake 'Jenin massacre' were masterful and filled with informed principle.

It is in times of difficulty that you can tell who your real friends are. So it is with Blair. So despite a malicious decade of hate by the BBC and the Guardian,  travesty of rational reporting led by Pilger, Fisk and their ilk, Tony Blair and the Government of Britain have stuck to the defence of democratic Israel, not without criticism, but refusing to abandon the Jewish State.

Blair's heroic stance is all the more remarkable in that context. It is no wonder that liberal Britons loathe Israel, given the diet of 'Die Strumer' like media propaganda that envelops Britons.  Nor is it co-incidental that Tony Blair has not adopted the reflexive anti-Americanism of Chirac, or the disgraceful Gazprom hack former German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder. Realising, after Kosovo, that sometimes only military force will prevent genocide, Tony Blair will be remembered for facing the difficulties of ‘humanitarian interventionism’, Iraq notwithstanding.            

Britain's clear-sightedness with terrorism, its massive funding of the fight against AIDs in Africa the peace in Ireland and his doubling of real expenditure on health and education will all mean that history’s judgement will be much fairer than the opinion polls generated by paens of bile from grubby journalists. Retiring at the tender age of 54 the first ever 3 times elected Labour PM in Britain, his political memory is already a blessing.