Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas speaks with Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 16, 2009. Blair called on Israel and Hamas to change their policies during a visit to the Gaza Strip on June 15 exactly two years after the Islamist group seized power in the enclave. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas speaks with Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 16, 2009. Blair called on Israel and Hamas to change their policies during a visit to the Gaza Strip on June 15 exactly two years after the Islamist group seized power in the enclave.

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  2. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 08: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP, Conservative Party Leader David Cameron MP and Prime Minister Gordon Brown attend the Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph on November 8, 2009 in London, England. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and on Remembrance Sunday the country honours its veterans with the commemorations paying particular focus to the troops who have lost their lives in current conflicts. A British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Rifles, became the 200th British soldier to lose his life in combat in Afghanistan yesterday, bringing the total number of British losses, including accidents and illnesses, to 231.
  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 08: (L) Lord Peter Mandelson watches, Conservative Party leader David Cameron (C) prepare to lay a wreath along with Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg (2R)and former PM Tony Blair (R) during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph on Whitehall on November 8, 2009 in London, England.
  4. Middle East envoy Tony Blair (C) visits a dairy factory in the West Bank city of Hebron October 20, 2009. Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man on Tuesday as he approached Blair, shouting "You are a terrorist." The former British prime minister was verbally assailed while visiting an ancient mosque during an official trip to the West Bank city of Hebron.
  5. READING, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Mike Blair (L) of Edinburgh holds the trophy with Butch James during the Heineken Cup UK Launch at the Madejski Stadium on September 29, 2009 in Reading, England.
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  7. READING, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Players of British teams that will take part in the Heineken Cup (L-R) Harry Ellis (Leicester Tigers) Mike Blair, (Edinburgh), Will Skinner (Harlequins), Tom Willis (Newport Gwent Dragons), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Alastair Kellock (Glasgow Warriors), Bob Casey (London Irish), Paul Tito (Cardiff Blues), Dean Schfield (Sale Sharks), Gareth Delve (Gloucester), Mark Jones, (Scarlets), Butch James (Bath) and Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints) pose during the Heineken Cup UK Launch at the Madejski Stadium on September 29, 2009 in Reading, England.
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  9. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, speaks at the parliament in Gaza city on October 5, 2009 against the Palestinian Authority's support for delaying the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza offensive. Haniya accused Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas of the 'absurd and criminal' decision to delay endorsement of the report, a move he said endangered Egyptian-brokered national unity talks.
  10. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, speaks at the parliament in Gaza city on October 5, 2009 against the Palestinian Authority's support for delaying the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza offensive. Haniya accused Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas of the 'absurd and criminal' decision to delay endorsement of the report, a move he said endangered Egyptian-brokered national unity talks.
  11. A Hamas movement supporter holds a poster showing Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, with Hamas protesters superimposed in the background, during a demonstration in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on October 4, 2009 against a UN decision to delay a vote on a report accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority is under fire for giving in to what critics said was US and Israeli pressure to defer a vote by the UN Human Rights Council on the report by the former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
  12. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (R) gives a speech on October 4, 2009 during a reception at his office in Gaza City for Roudah Habib (L), the final Palestinian woman prisoner set free by Israel as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  13. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya offers flowers to Roudah Habib (C), the final Palestinian woman prisoner set free by Israel as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years, as he welcomes her at his office in Gaza city following her release on October 4, 2009. Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  14. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya waves to the crowd near house in Gaza City of the the final Palestinian woman prisoner released by Israel on October 4, 2009 as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Roudah Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  15. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya waves to the crowd near house in Gaza City of the the final Palestinian woman prisoner released by Israel on October 4, 2009 as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Roudah Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
  16. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (3rd R) waves after his visit to the house of newly released Palestinian prisoner Rawda Saed (not pictured) in Gaza City October 4, 2009. Israel freed the Palestinian woman prisoner to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the last of 20 it has swapped for a videotape that provided the first visible evidence that a soldier captured in 2006 was still alive.

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