Israel declines to widen offensive - Houston Chronicle

Cabinet does decide to beef up reservist ranks as some anticipate a longer conflict By GREGORY KATZ Middle East Bureau JERUSALEM The Israeli Cabinet, meeting in emergency session, decided Thursday to call up thousands of reservists but rejected arguments by military strategists to expand the ground war against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. The message emerging from an emergency session of the Cabinet, held a day after the army engaged in heavy fighting, was that Israel is not going to ...