Cease-fires in the Middle East are often described as fragile. That is true—but it is also incomplete. What is unfolding now along the Israel-Lebanon border is not merely a test of diplomacy. It is a test of whether the international community is willing to confront a central, uncomfortable reality: peace is impossible when one side is a sovereign state and the other is an armed proxy that answers to a foreign power.
The newly announced truce, brokered under the leadership of Donald Trump and accepted by the government of Israel under Benjamin […]