Spanish PM Zapatero offers harsh criticism of Iraq war, Mideast violence

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World leaders alarmed, angered by Mideast violence

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PARIS (AFP) - World leaders expressed alarm and anger at the upsurge in violence in the Middle East and sought a solution to the crisis, though differences over who bore responsibility emerged between the United States and some of its partners.

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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called on Israel to "end hostilities" and respect "international law."

He also said that events in the Middle East should make those countries that had unleashed the "unjustified military intervention in Iraq reflect."

"Those who pushed for the war in Iraq told us that after the intervention a horizon of peace would open up," he told a meeting in Ibiza in the Balearic Islands.

"I hope the lesson given by the facts will make them stop and think."

The war in Iraq had been a "disaster" which had led to "radicalization, fanaticism, conflict and instability in the region," he said.

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