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Article: Another century of Middle East crisis?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2006
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Byline: Yonah Alexander, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Once again, terrorism triggered a brutal war in the Middle East. The regional and global security ramifications are alarming. Despite the intensified diplomatic efforts at the United Nations and elsewhere to stop the unprecedented escalation of hostilities between the antagonists, there is little hope of a modus vivendi, let alone a durable peace.
Indeed, the old-new Middle East conflict will most likely linger on for at least a century of terrorist activities, periodic flare-ups, eruptions of armed skirmishes, low-intensity confrontations, and perhaps even full-scale wars both on the conventional ...