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Article: Hope amid the ruins: out of the carnage, real peace ever be achieved?(MIDDLE EAST)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- September 1, 2006
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The outbreak of renewed violence this summer in the Middle East carried with it a sense of tragic inevitability. Even among many people strongly committed to peacemaking, bloodshed in the region is often met with sorrowful resignation--"there they go again"--as if nothing can ever be done to prevent warfare in the area.
There were dire warnings of the danger of the war spreading far beyond the Middle East. Could this be the spark, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asked, of World War III? Or worse: Some on the apocalypse-watch wing of the Christian right saw in the Israel-Lebanon fighting the seeds of Armageddon.
While civilian deaths multiplied--most ...