Hezbollah's cheap fiber-optic drones are wrecking IDF vehicles in southern Lebanon, and Israel has no good answer — bad for Israel, and a sign of how much asymmetric warfare has shifted the battlefield.

• Hezbollah drones use fiber-optic cables up to 25 km long, so they can't be jammed, and they're taking out an IDF vehicle roughly every drone launched.
• Israel's countermeasure is fishing nets draped across neighborhoods, but drones just fly under them — and the nets reveal exactly where troops are.
• The Israeli military is turning on Netanyahu, saying troops are sitting ducks; the Knesset approved $700 million to find a real solution.
• Israel killed the new Hamas military chief 11 days after he took the role, despite the ceasefire — more than 800 Palestinians have been killed since the October truce.
• Iran released video showing a radar lock on a US F-35, undermining the trillion-dollar premise that the stealth jet can't be tracked.

Outlook: Trump's push for a wider Middle East peace deal runs straight into Israel's refusal to pull out of Lebanon, keeping gas prices and mortgage rates under pressure.