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...least two precision guided missiles, used by the Israeli Air Force to flatten houses throughout south Lebanon, pancaked a six-story apartment block down a narrow street in the heart of Tyre. A huge pall of yellow smoke and dust rose above the town, marking the spot where the bombs have fallen. All that was left of the building was a sprawling pile of rubble mixed with the pathetic detritus of people?s destroyed homes - broken tables, a lamp, half a sofa, torn books, clothing...
...people are too laid-back for the Islamic party?s zealotry, preferring instead an easy life lolling in the shade, eating fresh fried fish and slaking their thirst with chilled bottles of Lebanese beer. But that nonchalance is changing with each passing day of Israel?s onslaught against south Lebanon. Slowly but surely, Tyre?s residents are becoming radicalized...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict for the past 25 years, is expressing displeasure with the Bush Administration's handling of the conflict in Lebanon. In written responses to questions from TIME, Mubarak said the emergency meeting with Arab envoys hosted by Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice in Rome Wednesday failed to halt the bloodshed. While not directly criticizing the White House's refusal to call for an immediate cessation of Israel's attacks on Lebanon, he complained that the crisis "could have been contained at its early stage" and demanded that the international...
...Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, Mubarak said, "went way too far" and has "triggered an increasing rage within the Arabs, Moslems and worldwide." With the broader Middle East peace process at a stalemate, he expressed pessimism about resolving the crisis. "There is no light at the end of the tunnel," he said...
...interview, Mubarak also revealed details of the Egyptian mediation that nearly defused the escalating Middle East crisis before it spread from the Gaza Strip to Israel's northern front on July 12. On the eve of the outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon, he said, Egyptian intelligence operatives almost brokered a deal for the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants of the Palestinian Hamas group based in Gaza. But he said that "certain third parties" - an apparent reference to Hamas exile leader Khaled Mishal and the Syrian regime in Damascus that supports him - "aborted our efforts." He also revealed...