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Rival camps abandon confrontation following cabinet formation
‘The rhetoric is down, there is a lot of practiced restraint’
By Michael Bluhm
Daily Star staff
Monday, November 16, 2009

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Lebanon's new national-unity Cabinet signals that the March 14 and March 8 political camps have retreated from the tactics of confrontation which led the country to the brink of civil war in May 2008, a number of analysts told The Daily Star. Prime Minister Saad Hariri's government will almost certainly not alter the status quo on the most divisive issues such.


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