21.   First, the Israeli military does not know how much time it will have before pressure from Washington forces it to curtail the operation.

22.   For its part, Israel has insisted that the settlements in the West Bank remain under the protection of the Israeli military.

23.   Gen. Ehud Barak, the chief of staff, said day by day the Israeli military had watched U.S. strategy in the Gulf War.

24.   Gone, too, was the habit of restraining the Israeli military, and purporting to be an evenhanded broker.

25.   From Katusha rockets to helicopter gunships to grenades, critics say the Israeli military has gone too far in some cases.

26.   Government-built factories such as Elite Chocolate and a defense plant were a source of jobs for veterans of the Israeli military.

27.   He has used this unabashedly to lobby on behalf of Palestinians who have difficulties with the Israeli military.

28.   He says the Israeli military will have freedom of action against Palestinian terrorists, even within areas controlled by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

29.   Heavily fortified and protected by the Israeli military, the exclusively Jewish communities have been the focus of much of the fighting in recent months.

30.   However, the Palestinian Authority said it will ask Zinni to examine the bodies of three teenagers killed on Sunday by the Israeli military.