I have to admire Jenny Tong for standing up and saying that blindly condemning the palestinians isn’t going to solve anything and if anything’s going to change, then understanding where both sides are coming from is a must. She took a lot of flak for saying stuff about understanding the thought processes of Palestinian suicide bombers and this week took up the Today program’s offer of going to the West Bank and to Israel to talk to people on both sides. It was very interesting to hear her reports and at the end of her inteview today back in Britian, she said that the worst thing was the negativity there. It’s really depressing that nothing is being done to sort this out. Not that I think there’s an easy answer, but I don’t see George and Tony putting in the effort that they promised they would before we occupied Iraq .