Karen Kwiatkowski didn't dress it up. She backed this deal at the start, and today she describes it as little more than a document you hold up against American conduct and count the violations.
Israel keeps demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, making good, in her words, on the promise that 200,000 Lebanese will have nothing to return to.
Washington could stop it with funding and vetoes. It chooses not to.
The Katz threat against Mojtaba Khamenei ahead of the funeral came up, naturally.
Her read cuts against the panic: real assassins don't announce themselves, and neither Israel nor an exhausted US military could absorb what Iran would unleash.
Terror talk, she thinks, more than a plan.
Then she surprised me with a flicker of actual hope, and it came from inside Israel.
Gadi Eisenkot's fast-rising Yashar party: a general who's seen war up close, backs a two-state solution, and might be the only figure who can pull the Arab parties into a coalition.
Netanyahu and Bennett can't touch that math.
Generals who've buried soldiers, she noted, sometimes govern like Eisenhower, and we ended on his Cross of Iron speech: every rocket fired is a theft from those who hunger.
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