In Lebanon, bombing civilian power stations has boomeranged. The escalation has provoked a crisis between Barak and President Hosni Mubarak, who flew to Lebanon for the first visit there by an Egyptian leader in half a century. Barak is keeping his nerve. He is setting new deadlines, working to revive negotiations with Syria and the Palestinians. But he is looking more and more like the boy on the burning deck.
Israeli commentators are uniformly gloomy.
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