Israel’s Pressure Play Just Backfired — BADLY

When a state is pushed to the point where it can no longer absorb the pressure, it doesn’t bend — it breaks. Lebanon just reached that point. Right, so they called it a ceasefire. Said hostilities would stop at four in the morning on 27 November 2024. Wrote it down. Signed it. Announced it like a closing ceremony. Hezbollah withdrew north of the Litani River. Lebanese Army took up the south. UNIFIL logged the maps. The paperwork was clean, but it’s all that was. The air was not. Israeli drones never left the sky. Israeli shells never really stopped finding the same villages they had found before. The ceasefire existed in statements, not in practice and so it has continued for almost a year now. But despite Israel’s thousands of ceasefire violations, then came the pressure on Lebanon didn’t it. Not on Israel to stop the strikes. On Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. Disarm the resistance to secure the border, while Israel keep on firing, keep on occupying territory. Hand over the only deterrent to the literal threat. Call it stability. Call it peace. Call it anything except what it is. A quiet demand being made under bombardment. Well Hezbollah hasn’t returned fire. Not yet. But it is also increasingly no longer ruling it out either. Right, so the Lebanese ceasefire. The wording was explicit. The time was fixed. Four in the morning, 27th November last year. Hostilities to stop. The area south of the Litani River was to be secured by the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah to remain north of that line. Israel to cease offensive operations against Lebanese territory. UNIFIL to monitor compliance. The ceasefire was presented as the practical implementation of Resolution 1701. The same resolution that has governed the Lebanon-Israel border since 2006. No clause requiring disarmament. No clause requiring surrender. A freeze. A line. A halt. Hezbollah pulled its fighters back. The Litani became the marker. The Lebanese Army increased its deployment in the south. UNIFIL patrol logs continued. The operational map remained visible. The ceasefire existed in writing. But it didn’t exist in movement, nor in the field in the field. The reality held from Lebanon’s side, but as suual when it comes to ceasefires, not from Israel’s. Israeli drones remain over southern Lebanon to this day. They remain over the valleys and villages. The engine noise overhead has never stopped. UNIFIL continue to record the flights, even above their own heads. The violations have been documented pretty much daily for all this time. There were also strikes of course.