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Ariga: Today's Situation
Today's Situation from Ariga
The daily Monday-Friday report on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by Robert Rosenberg of Ariga at the intersection of three continents in Tel Aviv.

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  • Fighting back
    Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Chief of Staff Dan Halutz began fighting back last night and today against those who would see them deposed but as two public opinion surveys in today’s press shows, they both have uphill struggles ahead.

  • Lonely at the top
    For President Moshe Katsav and Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, these are difficult times. Yesterday afternoon, Halutz was grilled by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. But hardly anybody noticed Halutz said the Hizbollah was ‘religiously’ keeping the ceasefire and that since the ceasefire began, the IDF had not spotted any arms smuggling from Syria to Hizbollah in Lebanon. There was some attention paid to the statement that all Israeli troops would be out of Lebanon, as predicted, by Friday, the start of the Jewish New Year holidays, something that was confirmed today by Defense Minister Amir Peretz.