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...Israeli media is reporting a disagreement on this question between Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Guided by his generals, Peretz wants to press on to the Litani River, up to 12 miles north of the Israeli border, and even beyond. That would also extend the duration of the campaign for at least another week, say Israeli military experts. The prime minister, mindful of the gently increasing pressure from the White House, and of the risk that expanding the ground offensive could bring large numbers of Israeli casualties, has insisted the assault be more limited...
...Israel also ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Defense Minister Amir Peretz warning on Monday that every vehicle carrying a Hizballah-bound weapon from Syria would be targeted. Still, despite the mounting tension, neither side is looking for a fight...
...Though Rice didn't say so in blunt terms, the moment when she first heard of the Qana tragedy was a low point. She had been meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz shortly after 8 a.m Sunday when assistant secretary of state David Welch, Rice's point man for Israeli-Arab problems, received an urgent e-mail from U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman in Beirut. Feltman didn't have many facts yet, he and Welch instinctively sensed the potential for derailing Rice's efforts to mediate a cross-border settlement. Welch slipped into the meeting to give Rice a heads...
...lower their stocks, lest a lucky strike cause damaging fallout. Two Palestinians were arrested this week on suspicions they intended to carry out suicide bombings, and the West Bank city of Nablus has seen fierce clashes between IDF soldiers and militants suspected of planning attacks on Israel. Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered both the West Bank and Gaza - where fighting against Hamas and other militants continues unabated - completely sealed until at least Saturday. Furthermore, Israeli intelligence is concerned Hizballah might try to attack Israelis and Jews abroad, as they did in 1990 and 1994 in Argentina...
...Israel's northern border. The IDF is continuing to pound Hizballah's positions and infrastructure and, it seems, trying to kill Nasrallah himself. Peretz said a few days ago that Nasrallah "is going to get it in such a way that he is never going to forget the name Amir Peretz." But just how he is remembered depends on whether the onetime dove can use military force to deliver anything resembling the peace he still claims to seek...