Lebanese can't wait for Israeli pullout
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AL-BAIYADA, Lebanon  - The white-and-blue Star of   David flag flutters from an Israeli army post near this   Lebanese border village, reminding residents of the fragility   of a truce between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.
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JERUSALEM - Jewish settlers slated for evacuation from Gaza will have until next July to go and anyone resisting will be forced out by September, the chief architect of Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs withdrawal plan said.
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The resignation of their billionaire Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri, has left the Lebanese worried about the future of their country as it becomes entrenched in a stand-off with the UN.
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Lebanon braced on Wednesday for a bitter power struggle after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister which his allies blamed on Syria.
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Israel plans to pull out the last of its troops from south Lebanon on Sunday in line with a U.N. resolution that ended a bloody war with Hizbollah, security sources in Israel said on Sunday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday the fighting in Lebanon would end when the two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas are freed, rocket attacks on Israel have stopped, and the Lebanese army is deployed along the border.
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A top U.N. peacekeeping official on Friday said he feared the war in southern Lebanon would continue until late August and voiced fears Israel would flatten Lebanon's southern villages and destroy Tyre "neighborhood by neighborhood" if Hezbollah rockets keep landing in the Jewish state.
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Lebanon vowed on Wednesday to bust   Israel's eight-week-old blockade of its ports and airport   unless it is lifted within two days as envisaged by U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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The Lebanese insist a disputed 10-mile-square area of land is theirs, and Hezbollah says it will not lay down its weapons until Israel gives it back.
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A U.N. commander said on Tuesday Israeli   troops should be out of south Lebanon within days, but Israel   called for an agreement with the peacekeepers on rules of   engagement before a full withdrawal.
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Palestinian leaders will demand Secretary of State Colin Powell to pressure Israel to pullout its forces from disputed areas in the West Bank ahead of January elections to choose a successor to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a top Palestinian
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Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut&#039;s airport and two Lebanese army air bases near the Syrian border, and imposing a naval blockade. More than 50 people have died in violence following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls on Israel to lift a   blockade on Lebanon swiftly and withdraw fully from the country   as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Lebanon's prime minister vowed yesterday to wipe out an Islamic militant group barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp, raising the prospect that the army will either storm the camp, in what would likely be a bloody battle, or dig in for a long siege to force its surrender.
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The international community was scrambling Tuesday to put together a fortified U.N. peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon as Israeli forces began a pullout from the volatile region.
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Barbed wire, an earthen barrier and a minefield separate Lebanon from the last piece of its territory yet to be returned by Israel.
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The Israeli army said on Tuesday it  could complete a pullout from southern Lebanon within a few  days as the United Nations said the number of peacekeepers in  the devastated country had reached 5,000.