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...back to the border to refuel and rearm every few days impractical, and Israel would be forced to develop fixed positions and supply lines - something they've carefully avoided until now, because these offer very tempting targets to Hizballah; Deploying up to the Litani wouldn't necessarily eliminate the rocket threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from north of the river could hit the city of Kiryat Shmona and other Israeli population centers; Once in, the Israelis may find it difficult to easily extract themselves - the international force that would ostensibly take over does not yet exist...
...There was a huge explosion, and we all had our eyebrows singed,'' Arneth says. But of the rocket and stockman there was no sign. "Everybody sort of sobered up then, and someone said, 'We'll all be in jail in the morning.' But another one said, 'I saw him. There he goes,' and kept pointing...
...When the disheveled policeman arrived, a search was ordered and the stockman was found-stunned and sooty-further along the river bank. The rocket was never seen again. "The stockman was asked if he wanted to press charges," Arneth recalls, "but he was too drunk to remember what happened...
...have justified this whole war as self-defense, so they could argue that they have a right to continue operations," Mohammed Chatah, the senior diplomatic advisor to the Lebanese prime minister, told TIME. "They need to withdraw." And Hizballah has warned that even if it agrees to refrain from rocket attacks into Israel, it will continue to fight any Israeli soldiers remaining on Lebanese soil...
...Although Hizballah has indicated a willingness to trade an end to its rocket fire into Israel in exchange for an end to Israeli bombing of Lebanese cities, it also insists that it will continue to fight against any Israeli forces that seek to remain on Lebanese territory. Which means that Hizballah won't accept the cease-fire currently being discussed at the U.N., which envisages Israel remaining in southern Lebanon until the international force arrives - thus effectively postponing the deployment of such a force...