11.   If the Israeli offensive wiped out nets of terrorists, it also dealt a devastating blow to social infrastructure, essentially eliminating police forces and other public safety measures.

12.   In Israel there was a widespread feeling that the Bush administration was quietly acquiescing to a few more days for the Israeli offensive.

13.   In the Arab world, protests against the Israeli offensive in the West Bank took a violent turn.

14.   It was the beginning of what is expected to be an unprecedented, weeks-long Israeli offensive throughout the West Bank.

15.   Last Saturday, demonstrators against the Israeli military offensive on the West Bank threw cobblestones at the building, damaging the facade and the special plate glass.

16.   Palestinians are dispirited by the overwhelming Israeli military offensive and by their dwindling economy, some Palestinian leaders said.

17.   Palestinians have countered, though, that the Israeli offensive killed hundreds of civilians while wreaking devastation across the West Bank.

18.   Secretary General Kofi Annan, in the face of continued Israeli objections, Wednesday abandoned a UN mission to investigate an Israeli offensive into a Palestinian refugee camp.

19.   She blamed the Israeli offensive in Jenin, which leveled wide tracks of the refugee camp there, for inflaming passions.

20.   That gap, however, has all but disappeared in coverage of the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians.