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disaster as a weapon in war. As well, Israel should establish a $1 billion Eastern Mediterranean oil spill restoration fund to cover all response and cleanup costs, compensate financial losses of fishing and tourism businesses, and implement a comprehensive restoration program for the coastal and marine environment of the region.

Surely we can do better than this in the Middle East. The international community, including the U.S. and its allies, must take this opportunity to resolve this half-century dispute once and for all. We can no longer afford the continuing distraction from the many very real environmental threats facing our future, and the time to fix this is right now.

Richard Steiner is a professor and environmental specialist at the University of Alaska. He spent two weeks in Lebanon last month advising the Lebanese government on the oil spill.

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