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Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri responds to the latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the drawn-out ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, which Khouri calls a fictitious political dynamic" that is primarily used as diplomatic cover for Israel's warfare. The ceasefire talks should not be taken very seriously as an effort to bring about a ceasefire," he says. It's pretty clear now that the ceasefire negotiations today are the equivalent of the so-called peace process in the bigger Arab-Israeli conflict over the last 40 years."