As the Israel Lebanon ceasefire comes into effect today, for several reasons it doesn’t look likely to last very long… Right, so there is a lot of commentary going on right now, pretty much headline news regarding a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, seemingly agreed to by both sides, even Netanyahu himself was backing it and frankly with the need for ongoing war and his desire to see it expand to try and keep him out of court and keep himself in power, it doesn’t make a huge amount of sense from his perspective to agree to this, so is there a catch? Do you smell a rat? Well that could well be for very good reason.
Where the mainstream media are implying this is all a done deal, it actually isn’t at all, and when digging into some of the commentary in foreign sources and alternative media, you start to realise just how far away from a done deal this is, but then, that isn’t necessarily the point. In my view this is all about a narrative that can be carried forward and got away with, where in practical terms violence and atrocity may return quite soon, a deal that may actually turn out to be a trap for Hezbollah and provide political coverage for Israel and it’s allies to resume atrocities, and get away with it in the name of self defence by making it all about them, just like Gaza was made all about Hamas. There are other sticking points outstanding to though that should be of grave concern. This is far from a done deal.
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