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THE WEEK, Page 22WORLDA Test of Intentions
Middle East peace talks plod on, despite fighting along Israel's
border
The militant Shi`ite group Hizballah, determined to do all it
can to sabotage ongoing Arab-Israeli peace talks, has scored its
best shot in that battle so far. Hizballah operators in Israel's
self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon detonated a
roadside bomb as an Israeli army convoy passed by on patrol,
killing five soldiers. The blast -- and Israel's retaliatory
attacks on Hizballah and Palestinian positions in Lebanon --
brought new tensions to the table as Arab and Israeli
negotiators conducted their seventh round of talks in
Washington.
The fighting resulted in the death of 13 Israelis and
Lebanese, including civilians on both sides. Hizballah managed
to fire a Katyusha rocket into northern Israel, killing a
teenage boy, while Israeli air, sea and artillery attacks
likewise claimed a handful of innocent lives. At week's end
Israeli tanks were poised along the Lebanese border, and
Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah was calling for a general
mobilization of his 3,500 fighters.
Despite the flare-up back home, the Washington negotiators
continued to plod along in relatively civil discussions. Israel
charged that Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, could stop
Hizballah violence if it tried. The Palestinians decried
Israel's attack on a refugee camp in north Lebanon that
Jerusalem claims is a base for terrorism. Still, all parties
have apparently invested too much in a year of negotiations to
quit over what is a regular cycle of skirmishing in southern
Lebanon.