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To Fight These Reactionaries We Must Tackle the Crisis That They
Feed Off Published on Monday, August 21, 2006 by the Guardian/UK
Israel and the US are Still Focused on the Wrong Issues Every
major political issue - Lebanon, Iraq, radicalism - links back
to the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Rami G Khouri
We have a very simple choice before us in the Middle East: we
can get serious about working together to give the people of
this region a chance to live normal lives in peace and security;
or we can all act silly in the ways of provincial chieftains, as
many public figures in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Israel and the US
have done in recent days.  The chances of achieving a region-
wide peace in the Middle East are slim to non existent right
now, because the key non-Arab players are focusing on the wrong
issues. Th