It has taken a full month, with more than 1,000 Lebanese and 100 Israelis killed and over 1m people displaced in this bitter little war. As The Economist went to press, diplomats were inching closer to a deal to separate the combatants, though Lebanon rejected a first draft ceasefire resolution patched together by France and the United States and debated at the UN Security Council. By far the more battered party, Lebanon risks an internal upheaval, some even say a civil war, if at least some of its demands are not met. After the intervention of Arab foreign ministers, who gathered in besieged Beirut to demonstrate their solidarity with Lebanon, some of them may be.
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