[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff - Senior Israeli security officials still feel the time is not yet ripe for a broad ground operation in Gaza. The strongest reason is that would be hard to go into Gaza at the height of an Israeli election campaign. General elections will be held on Feb. 10. It's quite possible that a major operation will eventually take place, but the decision to go ahead will only be made when there's a genuine sense that there is no other choice.
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