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...announced the new bombing regime on the Lebanese-Syrian border, he insisted that the Israelis had "no intention to open a new front with Syria.") "This is not a fight Olmert is looking for at the moment," says Eyal Zisser, head of the Middle East History Department at Tel Aviv University. The IDF would undoubtedly win, he says. But badly needed resources and attention would be diverted from the battle with Hizballah in southern Lebanon. Israelis don't want to embark on a regime-change experiment when the most likely replacement at this point is an Islamic theocracy...
This is a pretext. The authorities have been biting their nails for weeks now on how to move the parade elsewhere. Earlier on in the month, the city’s police issued this quite embarrassing statement: “in Tel Aviv, they are more accustomed to such large events, so it would be better to hold this even there...
...days living in the windowless, reinforced room in their house - a requirement for any new residence in Israel - Haran and her second family (she's remarried and has two daughters, now 18 and 25) relocated to the home of relatives in Herzliyya, a tony town near Tel Aviv...
...when a major Palestinian uprising began, the trip had to be rescheduled for the following winter. According to Steinberg, a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv killed a number of teenagers just a week before the trip was supposed to depart. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...with reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv...