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Timing of swap a bitter
reminder of 2006 war's failures
Brian Hendler
Soldiers returning to Israel on July 27, 2006 after rescuing the bodies of their comrades killed in battle with Hezbollah guerrillas in South Lebanon.
Two years since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, there is a sense in Israel that the Lebanon war's lessons have not been internalized by a government distracted by other things, from the profane to the profound.

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