A week that should have ended with Israel and the Palestinians agreeing on the principles of a permanent peace finds all peace talks temporarily halted, and an alarming escalation of the war in Lebanon. Hopes of a Middle Eastern peace were battered at the beginning of this week as Israel and Lebanon's Hizbullah guerrillas embarked on a hazardous bomb-for-rocket battle. The attacks and the counter-attacks were all too familiar: the potentially peaceful framework less so.
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