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Amidst a great fanfare
of trumpets, Condoleezza Rice announces that there will be a
"new kind of middle east". Violence promptly escalates
in southern Lebanon and the unfortunate village of Qana (already
a recipient of ordnance ten years previously) is hit by a targeted
bomb. Many children are killed in the blasts. If this is a new
kind of middle east, it looks remarkably like earlier versions.
"Tinkerbell" Rice flits back to Israel like some kind
of a "peace fairy", meets Ehud Olmert, is rebuffed
by Lebanese officials, issues pronouncements, looks concerned,
and flits back to Washington promising lots more of the same.
The Guardian; Monday
31/7/06 |
