Forty thousand troops against an estimated 8,000 hez dug-in in about 130 villages in terrain that’s been mined and booby-trapped. Israeli blogger Yoni Tidi concludes:
"From here on it is going to get bloody on both sides. The fighting till now has been the warm up and now we are going to go for the knock out.
"Both sides are going to take it all the way there will be a winner and a looser.
"Look for Haifa to get harder and look for Tel Aviv to get hit in the next few days and I think that the chance of Syria getting involved has now gone up to a 70% chance."
Other good sources are here and, in Haifa, here and a site whose Hebrew name is scribbler here.
UPDATE Then US pressure forced a delay, which Olmert seems to want, according to this analysis in Haaretz: "Israel is telling the UN ‘hold me back,’ in efforts to prevent itself from getting swept up in any one decision and hoping for the best. Olmert’s moment of truth has been postponed, at least until Friday."
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