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Breakthrough in talks over cease-fire resolution; Security Council expected to convene Friday
Revised draft calls for 'progressive' IDF withdrawal from south Lebanon
By Shlomo Shamir, Aluf Benn and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

The parties involved in diplomatic negotiations for a UN-brokered cease-fire resolution aimed at ending the fighting in Lebanon made a breakthrough Thursday, raising hopes that a truce deal would pave the way for the stationing of international troops in Lebanon as part of a package that would end the month-long confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah.

The UN Security Council will convene Friday to discuss the new proposal, which has been agreed to by the United States as well as France.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said late Thursday, however, there was still no agreement on a resolution calling for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah but that he hoped for one on Friday. "I have not at all given up on the prospect that we might yet vote tomorrow," Bolton told reporters after a day of talks. "We have not yet reached agreement but will continue to work on it and will continue to work on it this evening and meet again early tomorrow morning."
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The sides are currently trying to put the finishing touches to the final wording of the resolution. The revised draft calls for a "progressive" Israeli withdrawal, a senior Lebanese political source said on Thursday. "The Americans have moved their position. A deal with the French is very close in the next hours, but most likely on Friday," he told Reuters.

"The breakthrough is based on the inclusion in the call for a cessation of hostilities for a progressive Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory to go simultaneously with the deployment of the Lebanese army backed by reinforced UN peacekeepers."

The source said the peacekeepers would mainly be reinforced by French soldiers. As part of the deal, Hezbollah would pull out from south of the Litani river.

After 30 days, the source said, there would be a more comprehensive resolution that declares a ceasefire and sets out solutions for the release of captive IDF soldiers, the release of Lebanese prisoners and the disarming of Hezbollah.

Otniel Schneller, an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said the UN was at work on a new approach. "A new proposal is being drafted, which has positive significance that may bring the war to an end," Schneller said.

IDF General Staff fiercely opposed to cease-fire terms
One dispute that delayed the agreement was over Shaba Farms. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected a Lebanese-French demand that Israel withdraw from this area and transfer it to an international force until the UN, which had previously ruled Shaba part of Syria, decides how to handle Lebanon's claim. The new draft merely states that the dispute over Lebanon's borders, including around Shaba Farms, must be resolved, and instructs UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to propose a plan for doing to.

Government sources expressed satisfaction with the new draft, saying that it includes two key Israeli demands: an international force with teeth, and the disarmament of south Lebanon below the Litani River. "It's true that the problem of Hezbollah has not been solved," admitted one, "but we are also not in a position to solve it militarily."

However, the Defense Ministry and the IDF General Staff are fiercely opposed to the emerging cease-fire, and senior defense officials accused Olmert of blocking the proposed advance to the Litani, thereby denying Israel a significant military achievement.

The officials charged that the emerging resolution is very problematic for Israel, because it makes no provision for the immediate return of the kidnapped soldiers (it urges their return, but this is not one of the resolution's operative clauses), includes no stringent supervisory mechanism to prevent a renewed flow of arms to Hezbollah, and does not guarantee the organization's disarmament. "[Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah will continue to mock us, and in the end there will be another war," said one.

"We understand that the leadership wants to do everything possible to save soldiers' lives, but too much is in the balance here," added another. "We must continue."

The defense officials argued that the cabinet should have allowed the expanded operation approved on Wednesday to start immediately, thereby creating military pressure for a cease-fire more favorable to Israel. By delaying the operation, they said, this opportunity has apparently been missed.

Bolton: there could be a vote by Friday
Both the American and French envoys to the UN briefed Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the progress in talks. At the United Nations, Bolton said there could be a vote Friday on the resolution. "We're making progress and it's entirely possible we could have a vote tomorrow," Bolton said after a meeting with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc de La Sabliere. "We've closed some of the areas of disagreement with the French."

The terms of the resolution were agreed upon following talks between the five permanent members of the Security Council - U.K., France, U.S., Russia, and China.

The deal was coordinated with Israel and apparently with the Lebanese government. In his efforts to advance the cease-fire, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch departed Beirut on Thursday and arrived in Israel, where he updated Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the latest diplomatic developments.

The resolution will stop short of requiring peacekeepers to disarm Hezbollah but will call for an embargo to prevent the group from bringing in arms from Iran and Syria, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the resolution would also call for creation of "an emboldened UNIFIL", the UN force currently in Lebanon and long derided by Israel as ineffective.

But the official said: "The (international) force will not have any mandate to disarm Hezbollah."

The official added that the resolution would also include "an embargo that will prevent the supply of arms to Lebanon that are not for the Lebanese army."

The revised draft calls for a "progressive" Israeli withdrawal, a senior Lebanese political source said on Thursday.

"The Americans have moved their position. A deal with the French is very close in the next hours, but most likely on Friday," he told Reuters.

"The breakthrough is based on the inclusion in the call for a cessation of hostilities for a progressive Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory to go simultaneously with the deployment of the Lebanese army backed by reinforced UN peacekeepers."

The source said the peacekeepers would mainly be reinforced by French soldiers. As part of the deal, Hezbollah would pull out from south of the Litani river.

Officials in Jerusalem were hopeful the new resolution would be based on Chapter Seven of the UN Charter rather than Chapter Six, which was referenced as the foundation of an earlier U.S.-French cease-fire resolution.

A resolution which invokes Chapter Seven would empower an international contingent of troops in Lebanon to apply force and level sanctions against any party which violates the terms of the cease-fire.

As such, there would be no need in formulating an additional Security Council resolution which would detail the force's mandate. In recent weeks, a number of countries announced they would agree to contribute soldiers to any multi-national force deployed in Lebanon.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was also prepared to come either to vote "or, if need be, to work out any last-minute details," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

France expects that diplomats working on a deal over a United Nations resolution on Lebanon will reach an accord soon, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Thursday. "Things are moving in New York today. I hope they move even more quickly and in the hours to come," he told reporters. "We expect, from one moment to the next, an accord in New York," he said.

Agreement on a UN resolution aimed at ending the conflict in Lebanon has been delayed as the United States and France wrangle over when and how Israel should withdraw from the country. But Douste-Blazy said France could still press ahead with its own resolution if no agreement could be reached. "If we had to accept differences which we cannot overcome, France ... does not rule out the possibility of presenting a text in its own name," he said.

Peretz vows to exhaust all diplomatic options
Defense Minister Amir Peretz stated Thursday that Israel will exhaust diplomatic options before expanding the military operation in Lebanon.

"We are responsible for considering all options," Peretz said while visiting the northern border, accompanied by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz and GOC Northern Command Udi Adam.

"The minute troops set out to accomplish a mission, we must look in the eyes of every mother, every father and every child and say: We exhausted all other options," Peretz said.

Peretz said an integrated effort between the diplomatic and military plains was being made.

He presented four conditions set by Israel for an end to the fighting: The demilitarization of southern Lebanon, the deployment of a multi-national force in southern Lebanon, a real commitment to disarm Hezbollah and setting an outline for a plan to return the abducted IDF soldiers and removing the Katyusha rocket threat.

"We plan to free residents of northern Israel from the bomb shelters," Peretz said. His remarks were cut short when a rocket alarm siren went off, and his body guards rushed him to a nearby bomb shelter.

Earlier Thursday, the defense minister also said that if a cease-fire is reached to end the month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, it would have been the success of the IDF operation. "We'll see the military operation as having created the diplomatic climate and a new situation," he said.

If diplomacy fails, Peretz said, Israel will "use all of the tools" to win the war against Hezbollah.

The security cabinet Wednesday gave approval in principle to the defense establishment's plan for an expanded ground operation, but delayed its implementation in order to give a chance to the UN Security Council's bid to end the crisis.

The operation, proposed by Peretz, is intended to "significantly reduce" Hezbollah rocket fire into Israel, destroy Hezbollah's infrastructure in south Lebanon and kill as many Hezbollah operatives as possible. It calls for a few Israel Defense Forces divisions to operate throughout the area south of the Litani River. The operation would last a month, the ministers were told. But according to another estimate, it will take double that time.

The cabinet resolved that the plan's implementation would depend on diplomatic developments.

"There is a certain diplomatic process under way," Tourism Minister Yitzhak Herzog told Army Radio on Thursday morning. "We can allow a little more time to see if there's a possibility for a diplomatic process."

But Herzog made clear Israel would go ahead with its military plans if the talks failed. "If there won't be a diplomatic solution, there will be a need to remove this threat," he added, referring to more than 3,300 rockets Hezbollah has rained on northern Israel since July 12.

Halutz suggested destroying civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, such as the power grid. But Peretz interrupted him - "that's not in the plan I submitted to the cabinet" - and the issue was removed from the agenda.

The cabinet authorized Olmert and Peretz to decide when to launch the operation. Government sources said that no "deadline" had been set, but the diplomatic effort would be given from "a few hours to a few days."

The six-hour cabinet meeting was tense and punctuated with arguments among the ministers. Everyone understood that an extensive ground operation would involve many fatalities and could set Israel at odds with the international community.

A particularly loud argument erupted between Peretz and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz. "If you had brought the plan on Sunday, I'd have supported it," Mofaz said. "But when I asked on Saturday whether we intend to reach the Litani, the defense minister said no. Now it's late. We don't have two months to complete the operation, and I think it will take longer."

Mofaz suggested simply capturing the Litani. "You can get there in 48 hours and say we won, and south Lebanon is surrounded. If you want, clean the area from south to north," he said.

Peretz interrupted: "Why didn't you do anything when you were chief of staff and defense minister? Where were you when Hezbollah created this deployment?"

Most of the ministers supported Mofaz's proposal, including Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Rafi Eitan. Avi Dichter supported Peretz's proposal. But Olmert did not bring Mofaz's proposal to a vote, saying the cabinet should accept the defense establishment's proposal.

Nine ministers supported this proposal: Olmert, Peretz, Livni, Haim Ramon, Abraham Hirschson, Mofaz, Dichter, Ben-Eliezer and Eitan. Three abstained: Shimon Peres, Ophir Pines-Paz and Eli Yishai. Peres said that he did not support the move because it has already forfeited the element of surprise, may involve numerous fatalities and would endanger Israel's relations with Arab and Muslim states
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  173.   Lessons Israel should learn. 21:43  |  Ali 10/08/06
  174.   #135, Mark of Lewiston 21:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/08/06
  175.   Birnberg is Right 21:47  |  AJ 10/08/06
  176.   "An Emboldened UNIFIL" 21:47  |  Jeff Northridge 10/08/06
  177.   Poor Average Joe! 21:48  |  Maral 10/08/06
  178.   lincoln anything less then the total destruction of the 21:04  |  harzion 10/08/06
  179.   if ceasefire is reached.....success of the IDF 21:49  |  Lougp 10/08/06
  180.   To Average Joe American 21:49  |  Fadi Habib 10/08/06
  181.   America supports Israel 100% 21:50  |  Bill Davis 10/08/06
  182.   Ben Gurion, next issue 21:51  |  Mark Lincoln 10/08/06
  183.   Chapter Seven of UN Charter 21:54  |  Jim 10/08/06
  184.   #169 21:56  |  Sam B 10/08/06
  185.   HIZBOLLAH IS NOT THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT! 21:57  |  naro 10/08/06
  186.   Government No Confidence 21:58  |  Mordechai 10/08/06
  187.   OLMERT the LOSER brings hizbollah victory! 21:59  |  ami 10/08/06
  188.   To # 148 22:03  |  Habib 10/08/06
  189.   Do not be stupied or a loser! 22:03  |  Modafir 10/08/06
  190.   Ari tete de porc # 7 22:04  |  Philippe 10/08/06
  191.   Politics of war 22:06  |  Iranian-American 10/08/06
  192.   To MSG, #77, read history..Jews are native to Israel, no EU 22:07  |  David 10/08/06
  193.   #100 100% Brazilian 22:08  |  Jim 10/08/06
  194.   #5 Vas 22:09  |  Scott 10/08/06
  195.   #165 Maral-Armenian; From a history of genocide 22:09  |  Peter Vos 10/08/06
  196.   Zadok the Low Priest 22:10  |  Ben Gurion 10/08/06
  197.   Israeli government 22:11  |  Clifford 10/08/06
  198.   Israel won the war. 22:12  |  Ari 10/08/06
  199.   #6 time to lose your face 22:13  |  Scott 10/08/06
  200.   What a waste of time 22:13  |  Danny - Israeli one 10/08/06
  201.   Waiting for the UN--and the Lebanese PM to WAKE UP!!! 22:16  |  Svi Ben-Yehuda 10/08/06
  202.   Peace 22:17  |  Eugene 10/08/06
  203.   Miss Kohen and her innocents #175 22:19  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/08/06
  204.   #173, real lessons Israel should learn 22:21  |  Danny - Israeli one 10/08/06
  205.   What Next 22:25  |  Iranian-American 10/08/06
  206.   Kill the SOB 22:27  |  Laslo 10/08/06
  207.   Reply to #166 The Delay... 22:28  |  Jim 10/08/06
  208.   The Enemy Within 22:33  |  dave 10/08/06
  209.   Will the last person alive in Israel please turn off the lights 22:34  |  Michael 10/08/06
  210.   Kudos Yaakov Sullivan! 22:34  |  Maral 10/08/06
  211.   Breakthorough 22:35  |  Michael 10/08/06
  212.   France and a cease fire 23:08  |  Jim 10/08/06
  213.   Poor Benny Hill Gurion can`t get a rise 23:08  |  Orquest 10/08/06
  214.   Shoes too big 23:09  |  Jonathan S 10/08/06
  215.   An Emboldened UNIFIL? 23:11  |  Jon 10/08/06
  216.   Maral`s blood libel against Israel and Jews 23:12  |  Jake 10/08/06
  217.   Danny - I guess you missed 1978 23:13  |  Mark Lincoln 10/08/06
  218.   #212, Maral 23:14  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/08/06
  219.   #34 Free Democratic Palestine? 23:15  |  Paul in California 10/08/06
  220.   What next? On to Iran - neocons are excited 23:15  |  Mark Lincoln 10/08/06
  221.   Olmert=Bush=Blair, CERTIFIED Liars 23:16  |  Soveirgnity 10/08/06
  222.   Peter Vos` ill-placed accusation 23:17  |  Jake 10/08/06
  223.   # 71 Vas/Vasilli? TIPOTA,TIPOTA,PEDIAMU...... ............... 23:19  |  Kathy 10/08/06
  224.   #207 What Next? 23:19  |  Scott 10/08/06
  225.   Why is France destroying Lebanon? 23:20  |  AV 10/08/06
  226.   Peretz seeks diplomatic options... 23:20  |  Michael N 10/08/06
  227.   Eugenie # 42 23:20  |  Philippe 10/08/06
  228.   A war without defined objectives 23:21  |  Baz Mann 10/08/06
  229.   #213, Hezbollah is the Lebanese army anyway 23:30  |  Fritz Teich 10/08/06
  230.   Syria? 23:30  |  Tilford Bartman 10/08/06
  231.   #211:Michael - and the lights 23:30  |  another physicist 10/08/06
  232.   What baout the captured soldiers 23:31  |  BigBen 10/08/06
  233.   YAKOV SULLIVAN 23:31  |  Scott 10/08/06
  234.   # 73 Armchair General.Yes,if they are players that is..... 23:33  |  Kathy 10/08/06
  235.   for tante Aida 23:38  |  ramin 10/08/06
  236.   #13 Breaakthrough- 23:38  |  Jim 10/08/06
  237.   #205 - Yaakov Sullivan 23:38  |  T. A. Adams 10/08/06
  238.   Haaretz #84 00:39  |  Rob 11/08/06
  239.   IDF withdrawal 00:40  |  David Ramati 11/08/06
  240.   brainwash 00:42  |  marcus 11/08/06
  241.   Warning: Dutch antisemites around 01:11  |  Tulip 11/08/06
  242.   Mark Lincoln is having the time of his life 01:14  |  Tulip 11/08/06
  243.   To all the Arab blowhards 01:16  |  Scott 11/08/06
  244.   David: It Is Not Over 01:18  |  Jack 11/08/06
  245.   Who really won! 01:19  |  Johann Sugar 11/08/06
  246.   #239 DAVID RAMATI 02:36  |  Oetis 11/08/06
  247.   Maral and Sullivan`s poster boy 02:37  |  peter 11/08/06
  248.   Olmert 02:37  |  w churchill 11/08/06
  249.   #243 SCOTT 02:37  |  NASRALLAH 11/08/06
  250.   israel not looking for a real fight? 02:41  |  chad 11/08/06
  251.   Orquest #213; on poverty of thought 02:49  |  Ben Gurion 11/08/06
  252.   Scott # 243 02:49  |  Philippe 11/08/06
  253.   Eretz Israel will self destruct I guess?? 02:52  |  Dave 11/08/06
  254.   To: AW freedom of speech 03:00  |  S 11/08/06
  255.   FRENCH ARMY and HEZBOLLAH 03:04  |  Commonsense 11/08/06
  256.   Israel will be seen as a Paper Tiger 03:04  |  Steve 11/08/06
  257.   Peter Vos # 195 03:11  |  Philippe 11/08/06
  258.   UN offers peace ONLY for Lebanon 03:11  |  USA 11/08/06
  259.   Exit Strategy 03:11  |  CG 11/08/06
  260.   To #28 Zadok the terrorist 03:12  |  Yahia 11/08/06
  261.   to Bill Davis 03:19  |  S 11/08/06
  262.   This goy suggests going back to your legal borders 03:21  |  Steve 11/08/06
  263.   democracy, olmert? 03:53  |  michael 11/08/06
  264.   THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM 03:55  |  Terminator 11/08/06
  265.   paper tiger 04:01  |  AK 11/08/06
  266.   What is wrong ? 04:05  |  Akram Zekaria 11/08/06
  267.   More Psychobabble 04:11  |  Larry Klein 11/08/06
  268.   To Steve, the goy 04:15  |  Alex 11/08/06
  269.   Time for action 04:15  |  Ed 11/08/06
  270.   Nobody will fear IDF from now on! 04:20  |  Elyas 11/08/06
  271.   If "Military chiefs strongly opposed".. then Don`t Do It!! End 04:23  |  Lib 11/08/06
  272.   Time for action 04:25  |  Ed 11/08/06
  273.   EVERY ONE HAS LOST IN THIS WAR 04:26  |  Steve 11/08/06
  274.   Victory to Hezbollah 04:37  |  Ed 11/08/06
  275.   Elyas - wrong 07:11  |  Mark Lincoln 11/08/06
  276.   Revised draft calls for `progressive` IDF withdrawal from south L 07:14  |  avinoam 11/08/06
  277.   unconditional surrender of Israeli force 07:23  |  althea 11/08/06
  278.   AK #265 07:29  |  Adam 11/08/06
  279.   SCORE: 2-0 FOR HEZBOLLAH 07:31  |  indrajaya 11/08/06
  280.   Imediate cease fire 07:34  |  Jack 11/08/06
  281.   Olmert Is Making Big Mistakes 07:55  |  Concerned For Israel 11/08/06
  282.   Pay now or pay later 07:58  |  Foil Fighter 11/08/06
  283.   Peace in Our Time-Nevillle Chamberlain 07:59  |  charles 11/08/06
  284.   Fighting Ethically 07:59  |  Jeff 11/08/06
  285.   Reply to #227 08:04  |  Joe 11/08/06
  286.   Cipora is breaking my heart 08:04  |  wibism 11/08/06
  287.   ISRAELI POLITICAL ACTING LIKE BUSH`S FAILED PRESIDENCY 08:07  |  PhiloEvraios 11/08/06
  288.   Who really won? 08:12  |  wibism 11/08/06
  289.   Stay focused on the task and restore your credibility 08:14  |  skippy 11/08/06
  290.   France and Lebanon 08:15  |  Francois 11/08/06
  291.   Lebanon Proves its Unity Once again 08:23  |  Arab 11/08/06
  292.   TO HARIZON 08:27  |  FROM A LEBANESE 11/08/06
  293.   Olmert Please don`t ruin our country 08:27  |  Allen Gochnour 11/08/06
  294.   Wisdom(or lack of) of the masses 08:35  |  Mario 11/08/06
  295.   another leader leading from a safe place. 08:37  |  olga orenstine 11/08/06
  296.   THE OLMERT-PERETZ WAR AGAINST ISRAEL ... 08:45  |  Craig Crawford 11/08/06
  297.   Mark Lincoln #220 08:45  |  Adam 11/08/06
  298.   To #264 Iran can nuke you too. 08:46  |  Popa 11/08/06
  299.   AK #265 08:48  |  Adam 11/08/06
  300.   THE OLMERT-PERETZ WAR AGAINST ISRAEL (Part 2) ... 08:52  |  Craig Crawford 11/08/06
  301.   Thanks Ha`aretz 09:05  |  Sal 11/08/06
  302.   Israel, shoot yourself in the foot, why don ya? 09:06  |  G.S. 11/08/06
  303.   looking for excuses 09:37  |  goulian 11/08/06
  304.   a lebanese 09:46  |  zadok the priest 11/08/06
  305.   To # 281 The new Israeli General 09:46  |  Sam 11/08/06
  306.   Hezbollah will Never disarm 09:48  |  Eli Wapniarski 11/08/06
  307.   THKS CABINET! NOW START REDEPLOYING &ACCEPT UNSC #191 #242+++ 09:49  |  EYES2C 11/08/06
  308.   Expanded attack needs an Airbus A380 10:19  |  Alex 11/08/06
  309.   DISARM ISRAEL 10:49  |  indrajaya 11/08/06
  310.   Olmert 11:51  |  Tom McNaught 11/08/06
  311.   isarail is a murder country 12:31  |  gjgbhncfyh 11/08/06
  312.   Hizbullah winner, Israel loser 15:04  |  luki 11/08/06
  313.   to 264 iran couldnt nuke its own back yard 06:02  |  smoke 12/08/06
  314.   # 141 Mark Lincoln & B.G. BOTH A GREAT COMEDY DUO... 14:21  |  Kathy 12/08/06
  315.   army dummy 04:10  |  kristin 18/10/09
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