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Tue 02 Feb 2009US and EU must impose solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
OPINION:There is a point beyond which hand-wringing before so much slaughter in Palestine veers from criminal negligence into complicity, writes LARA MARLOWE.
ISRAEL USED to react angrily when accused of disproportionate attacks on enemies. But when a group allied with the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas claimed responsibility for firing two rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert used the term defiantly, promising a “disproportionate response” and adding that Israel “will act according to new rules”.
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