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De radikale og voldlige kreftene som hadde intensjoner om å utslette staten Israel stod mye sterkere under den kalde krigen.

Realpolitisk forståelse har nå sivet inn overalt bortsett fra Syria og Iran.

But even the Israelis found themselves being bombed back into the days of the wars of 1948-49, 1956, 1967 and 1973, as tens of thousands fled from Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israeli territory. Nahariya, a popular Israeli seaside resort, turned into a ghost town in the wake of a barrage of Katyusha rockets. More than a third of the city's 50,000 inhabitants left after Hezbollah's attacks caused dozens of injuries and one death.