New Delhi, July 2 -- an immediate, permanent halt to hostilities on every active front. In Lebanon, that clause runs into Benjamin Netanyahu, who has decided it does not apply to him.

On Wednesday, Iranian and American negotiators emerged from indirect talks in Doha with language calibrated to sound like momentum. Qatar's foreign ministry described "positive progress," and US President Donald Trump told reporters his country and Iran were "getting along well." What the session did not resolve, and could not resolve without an Israeli seat at the table, is the one variable that threatens to unravel the agreement before its 60-day ceasefire window expires.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz put the problem plainly: his country's forces ...