The Litani River Trap: Why Ceasefires Keep Failing

The Litani River is the line diplomats keep drawing in every Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire draft. But as this episode explains, the river is a twentieth-century solution to a twenty-first-century arsenal. While UNIFIL patrols south of the Litani, the real problem is the Beqaa Valley — Hezbollah's logistical spine, where weapons enter from Syria, manufacturing happens, and the command structure lives. We break down why Resolution 1701 failed, how Iranian-made rockets made the river's buffer irrelevant, and what a ceasefire that actually addressed the Beqaa would have to look like.