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Israeli soldiers listen to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem Monday Aug. 14, 2006. In his speech to parliament hours after a U.N. brokered cease-fire took effect Olmert said he took sole responsibility, as Israel's prime minister, for the offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and said the war shifted the strategic balance in the region. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)