Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MILITANT SHI'ITE GROUP HIZBALLAH, DETERmined to do all it can to sabotage ongoing Arab-Israeli peace talks, has scored its best shot in that battle so far. Hizballah operators in Israel's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon detonated a roadside bomb as an Israeli army convoy passed by on patrol, killing five soldiers. The blast -- and Israel's retaliatory attacks on Hizballah and Palestinian positions in Lebanon -- brought new tensions to the table as Arab and Israeli negotiators conducted their seventh round of talks in Washington...
Despite the flare-up back home, the Washington negotiators continued to plod along in relatively civil discussions. Israel charged that Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, could stop Hizballah violence if it tried. The Palestinians decried Israel's attack on a refugee camp in north Lebanon that Jerusalem claims is a base for terrorism. Still, all parties have apparently invested too much in a year of negotiations to quit over what is a regular cycle of skirmishing in southern Lebanon...
Representatives of Israel, Syria, Lebanon and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation are in attendance...
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Houghton moved to the U.S. at the age of 5, He lived in several places, including Cambridge, and settled in Washington...
British diplomats, though, hope the conference will at least begin a process of negotiation eventually leading to a partition into ethnic cantons such as Lebanon's -- not because they like it but because they see no other way to stop the war. The brute fact is that the Serbs have won on the ground; reversing that victory would require military intervention far beyond anything any Western power will even consider. For all the relief efforts, Hogg warned Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic two weeks ago that he could not hope for military help to save the remaining Muslim areas from Serbian...