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...Professor Galia Golan, Professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya believes that, for the moment, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will have widespread popular support to launch a strong response, since the attack was unprovoked and will naturally heighten the sense of a nation that will never be accepted by its neighbors...
...still young and untested administration, Golan added, "this is a political nightmare." Olmert himself is operating in the still formidable shadow of his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, and Defense Minister Amir Peretz is working amid great skepticism that he, a man with no previous military leadership experience, is up to the task...
...They have to reestablish the power of deterrence of the Israeli military, some of which has been lost," says Golan. In Gaza, Olmert, Peretz and the generals are authoring a harsh script; early indications are that they have the same in mind for Lebanon. With reservists in the Israeli military being mobilized, it's clear they are preparing for more than just a few aerial attacks...
...Olmert quickly labeled the attack an "act of war" and warned that not just Hizballah but all of Lebanon and its government - to which Hizballah belongs - would be held responsible. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called it an act of "unprovoked aggression" by a "terrorist organization, which is part of the Lebanese government." In a statement, she charged that Hizballah, Hamas, Syria and Iran represented "an axis of terror and hate," that "wants to end any hope for peace ... in these circumstances, Israel has no alternative but to defend itself and its citizens...
...trials in military tribunals that Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, calls "kangaroo courts." Why does the Israeli government appear so inflexible about releasing prisoners at this time? Abbas and Israeli government sources say that at a private meeting in June, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised to release some prisoners as a goodwill gesture. But that was before Shalit was taken. The Israelis worry that capitulation now would encourage further abductions. And they refuse to have terms dictated to them. Though the captors initially demanded the release of more than 1,000 prisoners, both Abbas...