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London/JTA The Winograd
Committee's final report will likely
blame Ehud Olmert for the Second
Lebanon War's final 60 hours.
London's Sunday Times reported
Sunday that the report, to be pub-
lished in the next few weeks, will focus
on Olmert's decision to continue fight-
ing after the United Nations brokered
a cease-fire with Hezbollah in August
2006. The report will say Olmert
caused the 33 deaths that occurred in
the final 60 hours of the war.
The London Times quoted one
source as saying, "Olmert, aware that
a cease-fire agreement was under
way, ordered the army to carry out
an impossible operation to wind up a
failed war against Hezbollah with a big
showdown."
The Winograd Committee was
established to examine the prepared-
ness of the army and the government
for the war against Hezbollah in the
summer of 2006. Sources told the
Times that the conclusions will likely
cause a political crisis when they are
released.

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Gaza A 'Lost Cause'

The Annapolis peace
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parley will focus on the West Bank
since Gaza "is already a lost cause," an
Israeli minister said. Internal Security
Minister Avi Dichter during a tour of
Moshav Nativ Ha'asara, located on the
border with Gaza, said Sunday that
Israel must deal with Hamas in order
to stop Kassam rockets from raining
on Israel's southern border.
Dichter also blamed Egypt's neg-
ligence in patrolling the border for
Hamas' ability to continue to smuggle
arms into Gaza. He added that military
operations in Gaza are unavoidable.
"Hamas has become a terrorist
army, armed and structured exactly
like a full-fledged military forcer he
said.
"I suggest a three-tiered course of
action: operations against the ongoing
rocket fire, operations against Hamas'
growing power and operations against
its ability to act:'

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France Cites Iran Threat
Paris/JTA The French foreign min-
ister said his country "will never com-
promise on Israel's security;' including
the Iranian threat.
Bernard Kouchner in an interview
with the daily Ha'aretz published
Sunday suggested that France is not
ruling out a military strike on Iran.
But Kouchner said his country would

continue to work to pressure Iran
without the use of force.
"We have proposed to our European
partners to adopt measures against
Iran also within the European Union
framework, in order to let Iran under-
stand that it cannot continue with its
policy of creating fait accomplis," he
told Ha'aretz. On Saturday, Kouchner
began a tour of Israel and the
Palestinian Authority.

Planning For A Nuclear Iran
The U.S. and Israel are
London/JTA
preparing secret plans to deal with a
nuclear Iran.
London's Sunday Telegraph reported
Nov. 18 that the United States is updat-
ing deterrence policies for a future
nuclear-armed Iran. Both the United
States and Israel are sticking publicly
to their threats not to allow Iran to
develop nuclear weapons, but they
may have no choice since Iran has
improved its ability to hide its nuclear
facilities, the Telegraph reported.
The report comes on the heels of
confirmation by the International
Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. nuclear
watchdog, that Iran has 3,000 working
centrifuges for uranium enrichment in
the central city of Natanz.
At a security cabinet meeting a
week ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert told officials to draw up plans
for dealing with a nuclear Iran, the
paper reported.
Iran claims it is developing nuclear
capability for civilian energy use only,
but the United States and Israel say
there is overwhelming intelligence that
it is pursuing a weapons program.

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Traditional Bar Mitzvah

Some 90 percent of
Jerusalein/JTA
Israeli boys celebrating their bar mitz-
vah will have a traditional ceremony, a
poll found.
Seventy-nine percent of secular
parents interviewed said they would
have the traditional rite, compared to
100 percent of those who identified
as religiously observant. Sixty-five
percent of respondents overall would
hold the ceremony at an Orthodox
synagogue and 26 percent at the
Western Wall.
The poll interviewed 500 Hebrew-
speaking, Jewish respondents. When
questioned about a bat mitzvah, 33
percent of the respondents said some
sort of spiritual context should be
included, while 28 percent said they
would hold a party in a social hall.
Thirty percent said "there is no need
to make a big deal of it"

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