We haven't got to the stage of a full-scale military conflict.

我们还没有到达全面军事冲突的阶段。

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Mr Coke could escalate the conflict by calling on armed backers elsewhere in the country, like the Stone Crusher gang in Montego Bay, a tourist haven, to stage further attacks.

科克通过号召全国各地支持他的武装分子可以使冲突升级，如号召旅游胜地——蒙特哥贝湾的碎石犯罪组织实施更多的袭击行为。

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Tackle territory and security first, he proposed, leaving the other two "wrenching and emotional" core issues of conflict-jerusalem and refugees-for a subsequent stage.

他建议在第一阶段，可以先处理领土和安全问题；然后在第二阶段，再来讨论两方冲突中“最让人纠结的、最容易动怒的”两个核心问题-耶路撒冷地位和难民的命运。

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Stephen Starr, a freelance journalist who spent the past five years in Syria and is author of the book "Revolt in Syria, " said the attack signals a new stage in the conflict.

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But in this latest stage of the conflict, it is the response of the police that is causing the greatest concern.

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But it really isn't clear at this point why such an intensity of these cluster bombs in the last stage of the conflict, and also the repeated hitting of targets.

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