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...Netivot Fellowship annually sends around 20 students from Harvard and Yale to Israel as part of a year-long program whose mission is to develop Jewish leaders...
...Rice's immediate mission is to discuss with Lebanese, European and moderate Arab leaders, as well as Israeli officials, the creation of a multinational force to hold a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon. But some U.S. officials acknowledge that disarming Hizballah is not going to be done soon or maybe ever. It is one thing to take out rocket launcher emplacements. It is another to stop the inflow of new fighters. Hizballah's recruiting posters are taken from the stream of horrific images showing constantly on cable news around the world...
...Bush Administration's message went through a dramatic evolution over the weekend. Last Friday, describing her upcoming mission to the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said dismissively, "I can guarantee you, if you simply look for a ceasefire that acknowledges and freezes the status quo ante, we will be back here in six months again or in five months or in nine months or in a year, trying to get another ceasefire because HIzballah will have decided yet again to try and to use southern Lebanon as a sanctuary to fire against Israel...
...region will be placed in jeopardy, and if America's position in the Middle East are undermined, America's global leadership will ultimately be at stake. That's why it's so essential the President send his Secretary of State to the region with a mandate and a mission to tackle the problem head on: to achieve a cease fire between the parties, with sequential but not simultaneous exchange of prisoners, with an international undertaking to place troops from major powers in a security zone in southern Lebanon and perhaps even in Gaza and then to use that...
...there is to be an international force - and there should be - its mission should be to disarm Hizballah. Such a force needs to be knowledgeable, strong and no-nonsense. It has to go in with the expectation that Hizballah will lay down its arms so they can be destroyed. If Hizballah won't do that, the international force has got to have the active rules of engagement and military capability to destroy those weapons...