Both Hezbollah and Iran are also under pressure at the moment, and Israel's calculation must be that none of those hostile parties has an interest in triggering a regional conflagration right now, our correspondent says.

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In his virulently anti-Bush film "Farenheit 911, " Michael Moore damningly transformed that brief moment in a Florida classroom into an agonizingly protracted period of indecision and cynical calculation.

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