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IbnAbdulHakim
hmm, what does the envoy do exactly? what rights does he have? how much authority is he given?
please educate me on this matter...
I've no idea what his exact brief is... other than to seek to facilitate negotiations between Israel, the Palestinians and relevant Arab nations (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon) to establish the stated aim of the 'quartet'; a peaceful two-state solution. There will be no consideration of anything else. What an envoy usually does is transmit the positions of all sides to each other, tries to negoitate changes in those positions that would result in them being more acceptable and (hopefully) get everybody around a table and bully them into agreeing something. I can, and has happened, usually after a week of sleepless nights, several gallons of coffee and more than a few sulks and shouting matches.
An envoy has no 'rights' or such, although considering who appointed him anyone refusing to see him would need to think very carefully. He has no 'authority' either, if by that you mean the ability to make binding decisions on the others. The job is to persuade, cajole and (on occasion) threaten.. in a peaceful way, obviously.
We are saying that Blair will not bring peace Middle East cuz he has made war on the muslim ppl.
Blair hasn't made war on 'the muslim people'. In both Iraq and Afghanistan there are as many muslims on one side as on the other... not that means getting involved at all wasn't a mistake, of course. The relevant Arab players, Syria, Egypt and Jordan, are worried far more about Syria, Egypt and Jordan than the sensitivities of 'the muslim people'. The only people likely to take that approach are Hamas, and until they accept the right of Israel to exist and that the purpose of negotiations is a two-state solution and not one of their "end of Israel" fantasies, they will remain irrelevant to the process anyway. Nobody will be foolish enough to reject the message because of who the messenger is.. the stakes are too high. It is Blair's personal and diplomatic skills that will be important, not his past record.