As the guns fell silent, the tanks went back over the border andrefugees began to return to their homes in Lebanon Monday, the U.N.-brokered cease-fire looked as if it was a success. What is more (andmore surprising), the terms of the cease-fire are reasonably fair --i.e., not unfavorable to Israel.
Barry Rubin, the biographer of Yasser Arafat and a skepticalobserver of U.N. behavior in the Middle East, gave a detailedexamination of the cease-fire terms in his column: Let me list someof the terms he sees as either favorable to Israel or at least betterthan expected:
The recent war and resulting deaths are blamed on Hezbollah forattacking Israel.
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