Per ABC News:

” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal and informed the United States of his decision, Israeli officials said Friday.

Olmert will recommend that his government approve the deal in its meeting on Sunday, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief journalists on the internal discussions.

It was not immediately clear whether Israel’s expanded ground offensive would be frozen. Defense officials said it appeared the campaign would be halted.”

Of course the UN wants to put in even more “Hezbollah Enablers”, er, “Peacekeepers”, as the AP reports:

“The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.”

Make no mistake, this is a bad deal - period - if Hezbollah doesn’t disarm and although:

“ritain‚Äôs U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones-Parry said the resolution gives a U.N. force in Lebanon an enhanced mandate to help coordinate the eventual withdrawal of Israeli troops. But it would ultimately be deployed under Chapter 6 of the U.N. Charter ‚Äî which Israel has previously opposed.

That decision was a key concession to Lebanon and Hezbollah. Israel wanted the force deployed under the Charter’s Chapter 7, which would give the troops more robust rules of engagement.

‚ÄúYou‚Äôll find that the mandate for the force is very robust,‚Äù Jones-Parry said.”

Yeah right, believe it when I see it.

In the meantime I give this move a big NEGATIVE.

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