The attacks dealt yet another blow to already shaky attempts to arrange a meaningful cease-fire.
Mr. Juppé said that a meaningful cease-fire would have to cover the entire country, "and not only Benghazi".
Ever since the second intifada began in September 2000, he has never truly led in seeking a meaningful cease-fire.
The agreement may have also breathed new life into attempts to arrange a Peres-Arafat meeting to discuss how to bring about the first meaningful cease-fire in Israel and Palestinian territories since the conflict began nearly a year ago.
Expressing concern about the humanitarian situation facing the people of Gaza, he added that the United States was "leading diplomatic efforts to achieve a meaningful cease-fire that is fully respected".
The continued fighting underlined the difficult task that lies ahead for Mr. Arafat and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, who plan to meet soon to discuss how to bring about the first meaningful cease-fire in the long conflict.
As a step in this process, he will work to implement United Nations Resolution 1402; an immediate and meaningful cease-fire; an end of terror and violence and incitement; withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian cities, including Ramallah; implementation of the already agreed-upon Tenet and Mitchell plans, which will lead to a political settlement.
The legislation mandated that the U.S. impose sanctions against Damascus if it didn't take meaningful steps to cease supporting terrorist groups, stop pursuing weapons of mass destruction, quit thwarting our efforts in Iraq and end its military occupation of Lebanon.
Although the Sun and planets may survive, the Solar System, in any meaningful sense, will cease to exist.
"Frequent rituals, like saying kaddish every day, are difficult to maintain, and without strenuous effort they cease to be meaningful," Mr. Sarna said.
For example, if the maxim 'It is permissible to break promises' was universalized, no one would trust any promises made, so the idea of a promise would become meaningless; the maxim would be self-contradictory because, when universalized, promises cease to be meaningful.
