The strike on Beirut, the latest breach of the Lebanon ceasefire might finally be the last straw, but is anyone actually capable of retaliating anymore? Right, so here’s the thing about this so-called ceasefire on the Lebanese front: it’s only ever been a ceasefire if you squint hard enough to pretend the body count doesn’t matter. Israel has been hitting refugee camps, blowing up towns, scattering cluster munitions across valleys and calling it restraint, and Lebanon has been told to take it on the chin because apparently that’s what good neighbours do now. Then Israel strolls into Beirut with an airstrike that kills a senior Hezbollah figure and still expects the world to treat this like an unfortunate misunderstanding. You don’t need a map to see what’s happening here. One side has been honouring the deal, the other has been testing how far th ...