Personally, I’m not happy with this ceasefire in Lebanon. It halts momentum before victory against a Hezbollah threat that must be ended permanently, again, and assumes we can rely on a Lebanese government deeply compromised by Iran and Hezbollah – an assumption that has already proven false.

But Trump’s ceasefire shouldn’t be viewed as the end of the war, it’s a political pause within a larger strategic picture. The real question is when Israel will finish the job by doing what finally must be done.