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...putting pressure on Israel to open up Gaza's sealed frontiers to allow in shipments of Israeli weapons to fortify Fatah. But many Israeli intelligence officers doubt that a last-minute infusion of arms could tilt the balance away from Hamas, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the Israeli military will not prop up Abbas' besieged troops...
...Iraq. They include six current Bush Administration officials - among them U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad and his wife, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky - as well as think-tank academics, conservative opinion columnists and Uri Lubrani, the top adviser on Iran to Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Though it is not clear how many will actually attend the conference, a spokesman for the organizers, the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the meeting was intended "to bring together a wide range of experts to examine all options for dealing with Iran...
...Israelis have focused their fury on Hamas, not Fatah, whose armed gangs are loosely tied to President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader preferred by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Bush Administration. Israeli jets scorched Gaza, killing Hamas militants as they prepared to launch rockets or while speeding through the dusty Mediterranean strip. They also blasted warehouses, schools and buildings where Hamas was thought to gather or store arms...
...Palestinian rockets kept coming. An Israeli woman in Sderot, a community within easy rocket range of Gaza, was killed in one attack on Monday. The Israeli Prime Minister visited Sderot on Tuesday, but received an angry reception from the residents - and a few Gaza missiles slammed down nearby, though Olmert and his entourage were never in danger. So far, Olmert is resisting calls by the army to launch a major offensive into the Gaza hornets' nest...
...Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday promised a "severe and harsh" reaction to the recent rocket attacks. But despite the tough talk, it's likely that Israel's response will be restricted to air strikes targeting militant leaders, cells and rocket launch sites - and such tactics have done little to halt attacks in the past. But a large-scale incursion into Gaza to stop the missile attacks would involve too much manpower and too much risk: at least two divisions of soldiers and plenty of opportunities for Hamas to take Israeli casualties in an urban setting that favors guerilla tactics...