Posted on 06/19/2026 2:36:08 PM PDT by algore
US spy agencies have warned Donald Trump that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to torpedo his fragile peace deal with Iran to save his own political skin.
Netanyahu, who faces a general election in the fall, is expected to escalate strikes on Iran's proxy terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon to shore up support at home
An official familiar with the report told the Washington Post that Israel's leadership is frustrated with Trump's 14-point plan and what it sees as a capitulation to Tehran.
The document states that Jerusalem fears the agreement will hobble its ability to defend itself against Hezbollah
The deal has frustrated many in Israeli government who want to continue its offensive against Iran's proxies to their north - some have openly criticized Trump and his deal.
Further, sources reveal that Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon and attacks on Hezbollah militants there and near the capital Beirut are important to voters - a key consideration of Netanyahu's as he faces mounting political opposition.
The report stated that a suspension of hostilities or a withdrawal from Lebanon would be considered the prime minister's defeat, a current US intel official said.
'For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep,' Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's minister of national security, shockingly posted on Friday. 'All of Lebanon must burn!'
Trump signed the deal with Iran on Wednesday at the G7 summit in France
US and Iranian negotiators had been due to meet in Switzerland on Friday to thrash out a wider deal, but the talks were called off as fighting in Lebanon flared.
Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire on Friday that took effect at 4pm local time, brokered by the US and Qatar with Iranian help, though Lebanese officials reported strikes carried on past the deadline.
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Israel isn’t a signatory to the deal with Iran. Netanyahu’s first priority has to be Israel, not the US, just as Trump’s first priority is the US, not Israel. Netanyahu needs to do whatever he thinks is best for Israel. We’re doing what’s best for us, and keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed was not what’s best for us.
Stop selling/giving Israel bombs and bullets.
Speak of your own! Mine is pure, in search of fair maidens who, sadly, merely feel sorry for me.
Correct
At the other end of the spectrum the Guardian is seen as Britain’s most left-wing newspaper, closely followed by the Mirror. Whilst Britons were about equally likely to see both publications as slightly left-of-centre or fairly left-wing, slightly more considered the Guardian to be “very left-wing”, at 16% compared to The Mirror’s 11%.
The Independent was the only newspaper that was seen as broadly centrist, albeit with a leftist bent. Just over a third (37%) of people consider it to sit in the political centre – more than double the rate for any other newspaper – whilst a further 26% said they thought it was slightly left-of-centre.
As for The Times, the majority of people consider the paper to be either slightly right of centre or fairly right-wing (28 per cent in each case), although it is seen as the least right-wing of the right-wing papers.”
“ If a U.S. President wants conditions that restrict some other nation it cannot do so without that nation as a party to the agreement.”
Israel is a military dependency of the United States and if they wish to continue as such - that is, if they wish to continue to exist - they had better follow orders.
Israel attacks terrorists in Lebanon
Iran attacks ships in the gulf
Make it make sense
“Israel is a military dependency of the United States and if they wish to continue as such - that is, if they wish to continue to exist - they had better follow orders.”
The U.S. can do as it wishes with its arms agreements with other nations, that’s true, but it cannot make itself a party who is unwillingly negotiating conditions against a third party that is not a party included in those negotiations and about which it did not even consult the third party.
Trump can “threaten” Israel about Israel-U.S. relations. No matter, he cannot make conditions against Israel an item he negotiates with someone else, i.e. Iran, unless Israel were a party in the negotiations, which it wasn’t.
Israel WILL defend itself no matter what. It has proven that over and over again.
Iran may have wanted restrictions regarding Israel and Lebanon in a MOU, and Trump may have agreed to it, but it is dead on arrival, as Hezbollah will not agree to it and Israel will not refrain from responding to Hezbollah.
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