The Ceasefire Israel Violates and Hezbollah Refuses to Bury

By Elijah J. Magnier –

Since the MOU was announced and mechanism cells were created to implement its paragraphs, Israel has violated the ceasefire in Lebanon daily. Washington has remained silent, giving the impression that the attacks were carried out with US consent or, at the very least, without any visible American objection. This silence is not secondary. The ceasefire is not merely a Lebanese-Israeli arrangement. It is one of the pillars of the wider US-Iran memorandum of understanding, and its survival will determine whether the diplomatic process can move forward or collapse before it reaches the stage of a final agreement.

The renewed Israeli attacks expose the fragility of the entire arrangement. Washington wants to present the US-Iran MOU as a regional stabilisation mechanism. It wants oil flowing, the Strait of Hormuz reopened, Iran brought into negotiations, and Lebanon placed on a track of de-escalation. Yet Israel continues to behave as if the ceasefire is conditional, reversible and subordinate to its own military calculations. This contradiction places the United States in a difficult position: it claims to be the guarantor of the framework, while its closest ally acts in a way that undermines it.