By Aluf Benn, Amos Harel, Anshel Pfeffer and Avi Issacharoff: Olmert ignoring calls from Barak, Livni for immediate Gaza truce
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Title:They are running, he isn`t
Name:Mark Lincoln
City: HoustonState: Texas
They want the war over before it starts to drive their numbers back down.

He wants to show he is not a total incompetent idiot.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, the IDF soldiers would like to do the job right so they don`t have to do it again.

Which is at odds with the political objectives of Barak, Livni and Olmert.