Beirut faces new spiral of violence

By Robert Fisk in Beirut

ONE day it was peace, the next war. Ehud Barak, the new Israeli prime minister, had promised the first to Lebanon and Syria. Benjamin Netanyahu, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, delivered the second. ...

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