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...Both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Peretz have been peppering their public statements with calls for resolve, patience and courage in the coming, uncertain days. Speculation about wide-ranging ground operations and the duration of the war fill local newspapers. On Thursday, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz implied that what's commonly called a two-front war in Lebanon and Gaza could be seen as a three-front war - including the West Bank, which many Israelis call Judea and Samaria - and could last a while: "The fighting in the north was added to the fighting in Judea, Samaria...
...piece of shrapnel taken from the body of one of the wounded, who was being treated at an Israeli hospital, did not match the 155-mm shells the I.D.F. use. "I state clearly that we still regret the incident," says I.D.F.'s chief of staff, Lieut. General Dan Halutz, "but we are not responsible...
...before. Sharon was driven 56 miles south to his family home, Sycamore Ranch, in the western Negev desert. Friends who talked to him reported that he was in low spirits. At about 9 p.m. he spoke by phone with Israel's Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz. They discussed how to respond to Palestinians' firing of Qassam rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip...
...with them ways of dealing with the pilots’ letter. The newspaper detailed that Dershowitz was scheduled to meet, among others, with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, top Foreign Ministry officials, and Israeli public relations officials. Efforts were also made to schedule meetings with IAF Commander Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz and other commanders...
...cancellation of the Halutz event may have temporarily averted a further escalation of hostility. But the next time an incendiary figure is slated to arrive, the dialogue sessions will likely see the same sort of polarization that plagued the last two events...