{"id":504,"date":"2026-06-16T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:10:00","slug":"without-me-there-would-be-no-israel-trump-says-as-israel-remains-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWithout Me, There Would Be No Israel,\u201d Trump Says as Israel Remains in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, <\/span><\/i><i><span>support us with a donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> of any size.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=502\">For Second Time in 7 Months, Baby Formula Linked to Infant Botulism Is Recalled<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump is facing a choice: Ending the war with Iran, which is tanking his popularity and the economy, or continuing his deference to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made it clear on Tuesday that he cannot have both.<\/p>\n<p>Following assertions from Israeli leaders that it would not end its occupation of Lebanon, Araghchi reiterated that the memorandum of understanding signed virtually by the US and Iran required in no uncertain terms that \u201cwar will be ending everywhere, on all fronts, including Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the relations between war in Lebanon and the aggression of Israel on south Lebanon and the war on Iran, these two fronts \u2014 Iran and Lebanon \u2014 are quite connected to each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnd of the war will be the end of the occupation,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd without retreating and withdrawing from the Lebanese occupied territories, then there will not be an end to the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo any military attack from the Zionist entity against Lebanon will never be accepted,\u201d he said. \u201cThe continuation of the Israeli occupation of the Lebanese territories is a violation of the memorandum of understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a shot across the bow from Tehran following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s assertion the day before that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon \u201cfor as long as necessary\u201d regardless of any US-Iran agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe established deep security zones around the state of Israel,\u201d he said, referring to the roughly 230 square mile occupation area where Israel has forcibly expelled more than 1 million Lebanese civilians and systematically demolished dozens of villages. \u201cI want to make it clear: We will remain in these security zones\u2026 to protect our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other ministers were even blunter. Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said flatly that \u201cTrump\u2019s agreement does not bind us. Israel is not subordinate to the United States. We are an independent and sovereign country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=500\">Nonconsensual Drug Testing Has Criminalized Tens of Thousands of Pregnant People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Israel Katz said the occupation would go on \u201cwithout any time limit\u201d while villages would continue to be \u201ccleared of local residents.\u201d He said there would be no withdrawal \u201cdespite all the existing pressures\u201d from the US, adding that, \u201cwe are committed only to our citizens and to the security of the state of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has regularly deferred to Israel\u2019s preferences and sided with Netanyahu as he\u2019s derailed previous ceasefire talks. But during a news conference at the Group of Seven summit in France on Tuesday, Trump took a noticeably different tone with his obstinate ally.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he \u201cdidn\u2019t like\u201d the attack Netanyahu launched against the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, where Israeli forces bombed a five-story apartment building, killing three people. \u201cI saw that attack. I saw where that bomb went,\u201d he said, describing the attack as \u201cvicious\u201d and \u201ctoo much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to knock down an apartment every time you\u2019re looking for somebody,\u201d he said, making perhaps his most forceful criticism ever of Israel\u2019s rampant attacks on civilian infrastructure. He continued that \u201cif Israel can\u2019t do the job without killing everyone else, Syria should do the job\u201d of fighting Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the United States, there would be no Israel,\u201d he went on. \u201cWithout me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Netanyahu, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon,\u201d adding that the ongoing invasion \u201cthrows a negative light on the big deal, and that\u2019s the deal with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commentators noted this is hardly the first time a US president has vented their anger with Netanyahu, only for nothing to materially change.<\/p>\n<p>Noting Trump\u2019s previous description of Netanyahu as a \u201cvery difficult guy\u201d after he attempted to blow up ceasefire talks on Sunday, Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, said, \u201cThe question is: why does Trump facilitate this obstruction by continuing to provide Israel with arms and military aid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Zeteo News<\/em> editor Mehdi Hasan said: \u201cSuch is the madly erratic nature of Trump, that he can go from sounding like the most hawkish, pro-Israel president one day, to the most dovish, anti-Israel president the next day. Which is why listening to Trump is pointless; what matters is paying attention to what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=498\">Trump Administration Drops Effort to Halt Wind Energy Projects Across the US<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say it\u2019s not the first time a president has vented their anger with Netanyahu with no resulting material change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cWithout Me, There Would Be No Israel,\u201d Trump Says as Israel Remains in Lebanon - 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