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...promise to pull out within a year of his election, he was expressing the will of some 70 percent of Israeli voters, who could no longer see any valid purpose in sending their sons and daughters to die in Lebanon in the vain pursuit of security for Israel's northernmost towns. (Despite the occupation, Hizballah had still managed to periodically rain Katyusha rockets on those towns...
...Israel's primary objective remains protecting its northernmost population centers from attacks across the Lebanese border. But the key to long-term peace on its northern flank is reaching agreement with Syria over the fate of the Golan Heights...
...South Lebanon Army has rendered that impossible, even in the unlikely event that the U.N. force, whose role in Lebanon has never been more than that of spectators, had been willing to insert itself between two armies who have reached no peace agreement. That leaves Israel's northernmost population centers vulnerable to a hostile enemy a stone's throw away - which is why thousands of Israeli civilians scurried southward rather than spend their nights in the bomb shelters of towns such as Qiryat Shmona - and Barak with no simple formula for guaranteeing their security...
...Israel wants to hightail it out of Lebanon as soon as possible - but symbolic retaliation has a habit of running away with itself. The Israeli military bombed three power stations in different parts of Lebanon Monday night, wounding at least 17 people, and then immediately ordered residents of its northernmost towns into bomb shelters until further notice as it braced for Hezbollah's inevitable retaliatory fusillade of Katyushka rockets. Hours after the air strike, an Israeli soldier was killed in a Hezbollah attack in Israel's southern Lebanon security zone. The Israeli air raid came after five Israeli soldiers...
Skating over the North Pole just got a little more dangerous. Scientists have found that the sheet of ice covering earth's northernmost area has become forty percent thinner over the past four decades -- possibly the result of global warming. But don't head for the mountains just yet. Since the melting came from ice already in the ocean, global water levels will remain roughly the same. While the melting has been linked to changing wind patterns around the Arctic, researchers aren't sure whether this is a direct result of global warming. Still, the news does reflect several possibly...