Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister and envoy to the Middle East Quartet has described his vision for a safer Israel at the Aipac conference in Washington.
He said: “Israel is a democracy. The politicians are in fear of the people, not the people in fear of the politicians.”
Like US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spoke at the conference yesterday, Mr Blair called the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit "a disgrace" and said that Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
He told the Aipac audience: “Iran has conceived a role also; and it is not for peace.”
Mr Blair said he believed that a two-state solution was the only way to guarantee Israel's future security.
