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Mon 07 Jul 2006Israel set to agree to international forceIsrael's announcement that it would support the deployment of a temporary international force in south Lebanon may have signalled that diplomatic efforts to end the crisis had gone up a gear, but it has also raised speculation over whether Israel was beginning to scale back the goals it set when it launched its offensive against Hizbullah 12 days ago."Israel's goal is to see the Lebanese army deployed along the border with Israel, but we understand that we are talking about a weak army and that in the midterm period, Israel will have to accept a multinational force," Israeli defence minister Amir Peretz was reported as telling German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier yesterday.