🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel vows its troops are never leaving Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza while Iran keeps every militia in the region armed for round two

Israel's defense minister said it from a hilltop over emptied Lebanese villages: "the residents are outside, the soldiers are inside, and the homes are destroyed," and then he ordered the army to prepare for a long-term stay.

Professor Haim Bresheeth measures this war with one test, "a dividing line between nice words and conditions on the ground," and right now the words are winning while the conditions barely move.

Strikes are down and a verification force is forming, yet his biggest reveal explains why none of it may hold: Iran has frozen militia disarmament from Iraq to Lebanon because Tehran is preparing for the next round.

Watch the hilltops, because that's where this ceasefire will be decided long after the speeches fade.

@HaimBresh