It’s Wednesday, July 15, and Israel and Lebanon are in Rome, on day two of a sixth round of talks—the first since last month’s framework agreement. 

There is exactly one item on the agenda: the pilot zones.

A quick reminder: the framework agreement signed three weeks ago in Washington essentially gave Israel a lease on southern Lebanon. It stays until it evicts the problem tenant, Hezbollah, at which point the property reverts to the Lebanese army. The pilot zones are the trial run: the IDF demolishes the terror infrastructure, withdraws, and the Lebanese Armed Forces assume its positions.