The headline to this piece in the Guardian made me wonder whether the date today was in fact 1 April rather than 18 February:

Tony Blair is determined to help bring peace to Gaza: Good relations with both Israelis and Palestinians make Blair a highly effective asset.

(This ludicrous piece is by one of Blair's flacks in Jerusalem, Daniel Arghiros, and is in response to the British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim's brilliant take-down of Blair in the Guardian earlier this month. On a side note, do you know where Blair, the "peace envoy", was spotted, as Israel pounded Gaza during December 2008 and January 2009? In the region, trying to broker a ceasefire? Nope -- at a private opening of the Armani store in Knightsbridge.)