Right, so this is what peace looks like now, apparently.

Burning tyres in Beirut. Lebanese anger in the streets. The army going in. Warning flyers over the south. And in Washington, a signing table dressed up like the birth of sovereignty while Israel is still talking about a security zone it very much gets to keep.

They want you watching the handshake. They want you watching the pens. They want "framework" and "peace" and "first step" floating down over south Lebanon as though the words themselves could turn occupation into liberation.

But the footage says something else. It says people are being warned away. It says the streets are furious. It says this deal did not land as peace. It landed as a sellout by the Vichy administration passing itself off as the Lebanese government.

And Netanyahu, who reckons keeping the south ...