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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Is a new war in the Middle East becoming inevitable? By Volker Perthes Commentary Saturday, July 31, 2010 (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News

Is Mideast War Inevitable?

Volker Perthes, Daily Star

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Fouad Siniora, Lebanon’s former prime minister, is a thoughtful man with deep experience in Middle Eastern politics. So when he speaks of “trains with no drivers that seem to be on a collision course,” as he recently did at a private meeting in Berlin, interested parties should probably prepare for unwanted developments. Of course, no one in the region is calling for war. But a pre-war mood is growing.
Four factors, none of them new but each destabilizing on its own, are compounding one another: lack of hope, dangerous governmental policies, a regional power vacuum, and the absence of active external mediation.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=117656#axzz0vFlxmLqA

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