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 disa ...