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Beyond Lebanon This Is the Time for a U.S.-Led Comprehensive Settlement By Brent Scowcroft Sunday, July 30, 2006; Page B07 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that a simple cease-fire in Lebanon is not the solution to the current violence. She says it is necessary to deal with the roots of the problem. She is right on both counts. But Hezbollah is not the source of the problem; it is a derivative of the cause, which is the tragic conflict over Palestine that began in 1948. The eastern... Sign in to see full entry.