While Obama worries about the 'Palestinians,' a real crisis is brewing in Lebanon

Martin Peretz gets one thing right here: The next crisis in our region does not involve the 'Palestinians.' It's the collapse of Lebanon. In the next weeks, the judgement of the international panel set up to examine the assassination of the Sunni billionaire Rafiq al-Hariri -also, as it happens, the Lebanese prime minister- will be rendered. It is all but certain that the judges will conclude