U.S., allies divided over cease-fire terms - Yahoo! News

This looks and smells like a Cheney/Rummy Cabal action.

U.S., allies divided over cease-fire terms - Yahoo! News:

ROME - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the international community on Wednesday to work quickly to end the 'spasms of violence' rocking the Middle East, but the U.S. remained isolated from most of its allies by insisting that any cease fire address the region's long-term problems.

'There is much work to do and everyone has a role to play,' said Rice, joined by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and diplomats from European and moderate Arab countries attending a daylong conference on the Mideast crisis.
The policy conference came after two weeks of fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in which hundreds of Lebanese have been killed and more than half a million more have become refugees. Hezbollah has inflicted dozens of Israeli casualties by firing hundreds of rockets into northern Israel and in firefights with Israeli troops.