Life goes on as region teeters on the edge of all-out war
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After 10 months of near-daily border skirmishes, strikes further afield and escalating threats, a sense of fatalism seems to have set in.
In Beirut, shops are open and traffic is as snarled as ever. In Tel Aviv, cafes hum with customers and umbrellas sprout across crowded beaches.