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How Badly Does the UN Draft Screw Israel? Part III: It's Not a Total Ceasefire, But Everyone Will Condemn Israel As If It Is

Secretary Rice says it's not supposed to be a total ceasefire:

Rice said the "hard work of diplomacy'' was only beginning with the passage of the resolution and that it would be unrealistic to expect an immediate end to all violence.

The Israeli government is only agreeing to it because it's not supposed to be a total ceasefire:

Olmert's spokesman, Asaf Shariv, said that the expanded incursion had already begun. He said that the cease-fire deal being worked out by the Security Council failed to meet Israel's basic requirements, such as stationing a strong force of international combat troops in southern Lebanon once Israel withdraws. "Yesterday we were very optimistic, but they (the Security Council) took the wrong turn," Shariv said.

And yet somehow the AP has found a way to condemn Israel for disobeying the UN ceasefire:

Israeli officials said the military would push forward with the expanded offensive, ordered Friday by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, despite a UN Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The campaign will continue at least until Sunday when Olmert will bring the resolution to his government for discussion, said Gideon Meir, a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, adding Olmert intends to urge the cabinet to approve it.

We're putting at about even the odds that Reuters and AP journalists just did a search-and-replace on their stories from the ostensibly total 48 hours ceasefire that they lied about.

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