There is something both frightening and familiar when the guns begin to boom in the Middle East. Was this the start of another Israeli invasion? The end of the peace talks -- again? Israel, which launched the brutal assault in southern Lebanon -- in retaliation, of course, for ambushes on Israeli occupation troops there and rocket attacks on northern Israel -- insisted it was none of the above. Just Operation Accountability, intended to make the guerrillas of Hizballah and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command cut it out.
So why were 300,000 Lebanese civilians fleeing...
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