Gaza update: what the Lebanon pager attacks could mean for the Middle East conflict

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor

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Israel tends not to rush to claim responsibility for assassinations and the like. But the reputation of its intelligence services goes before it. Most experts are saying that the fiendishly imaginative nature of the attacks in Lebanon this week, which involved thousands of exploding pagers…

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