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A masked Palestinian student looks
at a burning American flag while
a Lebanese flag flutters during a
demonstration against the Israeli
occupation of South Lebanon, at
the An-Najah University in the
West Bank Feb. 22.
times when he was serving in the Israel
Defense Forces. Now he is trying to kill
me by means of my own people. He is
humiliating me and trying to coerce
me into accepting his surrender terms."
In Lebanon, bombing civilian. power
stations has boomeranged. The
Hezbollah guerrillas are still shooting.
Israeli soldiers (though they have been
deterred, for now, from firing Katyusha
rockets at civilians communities in
northern Israel). But Beirut has exploit-
ed the air strikes to rally the Arab
world — and much of the West —
against Israel. The escalation has pro-
voked a crisis between Barak and
President Hosni Mubarak, who flew to
Lebanon for the first visit there by an
Egyptian leader in half a century.
Barak is keeping his nerve. He is set-
ting new deadlines, working to revive
negotiations with Syria and the
Palestinians. He still promises to "bring
the boys home" from Lebanon by July.
But he is looking more and more like -
the boy on the burning deck.
Israeli commentators are uniformly
gloomy. The nearest to an optimist this
week was Hemi Shalev, who suggested
in the Ma'ariv newspaper that "Arab
public opinion discerns in its gut that
the peace process is coming of age, and
that the time for decisions is approach-
ing." On this reading, Shalev dubbed
it, "The storm before the calm."
The alternative, he might have
added, would not be a return to the
old bromide of no-peace, no-war. El
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