Amos harel, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies: Army readies for 'limited' Gaza action as 22 mortars hit Negev
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Title:Brinksmanship
Name:Colin Wright
City: RichmondState: California
Both sides are negotiating with a mix of threats and implied offers. Hamas fire increases, Israel lets a supply column through, Hamas fire slacks off, Israel`s intended operation becomes limited -- maybe very limited, Livni flies to Cairo...

I hope everybody knows what they`re doing and no rocket enjoys exceptional success. In any case, surely there must be a more efficient way. If the process here was represented as a machine, it would definitely remind one of Rube Goldberg.