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...Lauding the resolve of the Israeli public, Peretz is seeking to do as much damage as possible to Hizballah's weapons capabilities and to establish a militant-free buffer zone across 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...
...have no intention of drowning in the Gaza swamp." AMIR PERETZ, Israeli Defense Minister, saying his country does not plan to fully reoccupy Gaza. Israel seized three small sectors of the territory last week as a buffer against Palestinian missile fire, which has showered southern Israel since hostilities escalated two weeks ago following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants...
...have no intention of drowning in the Gaza swamp." --AMIR PERETZ, Israeli Defense Minister, saying his country does not plan to fully reoccupy Gaza. Israel seized three small sectors of the territory last week as a buffer against Palestinian missile fire, which has showered southern Israel since hostilities escalated two weeks ago following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants...
...being held. Further incursions soon followed in northern Gaza, provoking intense fighting in the neighborhoods of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, just inside the border with Israel. Israeli officials say their purpose in the north is to prevent militants from firing Qassam rockets into Israel by creating a "buffer zone" inside Gaza - a goal that took on added urgency when a longer-range version of the rocket reached the Israeli city of Ashkelon Tuesday night...
...that's changing. At research centers in the U.S., Canada, Europe and elsewhere, investigators are launching a wealth of new studies into the sibling dynamic, looking at ways brothers and sisters steer one another into--or away from--risky behavior; how they form a protective buffer against family upheaval; how they educate one another about the opposite sex; how all siblings compete for family recognition and come to terms--or blows--over such impossibly charged issues as parental favoritism...