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Lebanon's political elite waded into the murky and turbulent waters of the Rubicon last night, but the vast majority of the general public has no desire to follow them to the other side. On the opposite bank lies failed statehood, an experience that many Lebanese recall and that no thinking person wants to see repeated. Even MP Walid Jumblatt.

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