Ashkenazi gets cold shoulder in Washington

IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi returned early from a trip to Washington on Tuesday morning, ostensibly to be at the cabinet meeting at which a deal for the release of kidnapped IDF corporal Gilad Shalit was to be discussed. But the word on Monday night was that Ashkenazi would only return if there was a deal and on Monday night it was already clear that there was no deal. Ashkenazi returned