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|author=Simon Jenkins
|author=Simon Jenkins
|source=The Guardian
|source=The Guardian
|date=August 9, 2006
|date=July 25, 2006
|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1828081,00.html
|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1828081,00.html
|quote="I find it near unbelievable that anyone can propose sending foreign troops back into Lebanon, as in 1958, 1976, 1978 and 1982. [...] The only settlements in the region have been a result of wars, whether with Jordan, Syria or Egypt. It is local people, the resolution of force on the ground, that will alone resolve the latest conflagration."
|quote="I find it near unbelievable that anyone can propose sending foreign troops back into Lebanon, as in 1958, 1976, 1978 and 1982. [...] The only settlements in the region have been a result of wars, whether with Jordan, Syria or Egypt. It is local people, the resolution of force on the ground, that will alone resolve the latest conflagration."

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Author(s) Simon Jenkins
Source The Guardian
Date July 25, 2006
URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1828081,00.html
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Quotes-start.png "I find it near unbelievable that anyone can propose sending foreign troops back into Lebanon, as in 1958, 1976, 1978 and 1982. [...] The only settlements in the region have been a result of wars, whether with Jordan, Syria or Egypt. It is local people, the resolution of force on the ground, that will alone resolve the latest conflagration." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position United Nations should disarm Hezbollah on the topic 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.