A new US-brokered deal between Lebanon and Israel is bad for Lebanon, which gives up land and gets nothing in return while the bombing continues.

• The deal lets Israel keep southern Lebanon and enter any part of the country whenever it claims to feel threatened by Hezbollah.
• Lebanon gets nothing back and even agrees not to use legal or diplomatic channels to win its land back.
• Israel kept bombing Lebanon right after signing, with strikes on homes and villages and over 4,000 people killed since the fighting flared.
• The deal demands Lebanon disarm Hezbollah itself — something its army can't do — which hands Israel a permanent excuse to attack.
• The deal also clashes with a separate US-Iran understanding that called for an end to Israel's bombing and occupation, giving Israel two agreements to play against each other.

Outlook: Israel's occupation and strikes look set to continue, since the deal sets conditions Lebanon can never meet.