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Report: Israel Weighing Ground Invasion

HeadlineJul 20, 2006

The British newspaper Guardian has reported The Bush administration has given Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before it will consider a ceasefire. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Israel is weighing a ground invasion of South Lebanon. Some Israeli military experts are now saying the air war has been insufficient and that a ground war will be needed to dislodge Hezbollah. Israel’s Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the attack on Lebanon would continue “without letup and time limit.”

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