Condi feeling the heat in Beirut

she had to be taking an enormous amount of shit for waffling on calling for a ceasefire - and rightly so...

En route from Washington, Ms Rice said there was an "urgent" need for a ceasefire in Lebanon - but that conditions had to be right.

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Ms Rice's admission that an end to the fighting is "urgently" wanted marks a shift from previous statements in which she said an immediate ceasefire would only offer "false promise", say correspondents.

In a policy shift, Mr Olmert has said Israel will be prepared to accept a European peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon providing it is robust and has a strong mandate.

In Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said several European countries were willing to contribute to such a force, which he said could be deployed under the umbrella of the UN Security Council.

likewise, israel must have been taking a tremendous beating to at least APPEAR cooperative - again, rightly so... the killing must stop - on both sides...

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