[ Ha'aretz] Amos Harel - In the end, the Cabinet ministers listened mainly to a harsh debate between Mossad chief Meir Dagan and IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi. Many of them could see the logic in the warnings by Dagan and his colleague, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, about the expected victory celebrations in Lebanon. But Ashkenazi was evidently more persuasive in his steadfast argument for bringing his soldiers home, alive or dead. And the ministers doubtless had ringing in their ears the sentiments of the hostages' families, who spent last week lobbying every minister to go through with the deal.
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