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The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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As more than 700 Lebanese lay dead in Israel’s latest Lebanese war, the vast majority of them civilians, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked of the ‘birth pangs’ of a new Middle East — a ‘democratic’ Middle East that was meant to have been born with the occupation of Iraq, whose mayhem has been overshadowed, after three increasingly bloody years, by the catastrophe in Lebanon.
A week later, when the death toll had risen to 1,000, the US A…
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