A Cease-Fire on paper Only

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• By the time you read this a cease-fire was to have gone into effect in lebanon (at 1 a.m. Monday, EST). Here are Pierre's Cease-Fire Fantasies...
  

• In today's Recommendations, Even Sunday evening it was evident that the Lebanese government, with hezbollah providing the weaponry, would shoot itself in the foot: it's a no-go on sending lebanese troops to the south. Great Israeli novelist David Grossman three days ago publicly called on the Israeli government to end its war in lebanon. On Sunday, Grossman learned that his 20-year-old son was killed in operations with the Israeli military inside Lebanon. And the New York Times tries to be fair and balanced in an analysis of what it takes to fairly report a war in the Middle East. All and more here...

The day promises many developments. Stay tuned with the latest in the Recommendations segment.pt