Which will break first: the IDF or the public support in Israel for Netanyahu?

 

Trump Announces Extension to Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire, While Israel Waits for Green Light in Iran

 

Donald Trump announced a three-week extension of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire following a productive Oval Office meeting with Israeli and Lebanese representatives.

He stated the United States will work with Lebanon to protect itself from Hezbollah and expressed plans to host Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.

Israel is actively preparing to renew its war with Iran and is waiting for a U.S. green light to resume strikes.

Defense Minister Israel Katz declared the IDF ready for both defense and offense with new targets marked, stating Israel seeks to eliminate the Khamenei dynasty, destroy Iran’s major energy and power facilities, and deliver more deadly blows to collapse the regime’s foundations.

Israeli leadership anticipates possible resumption by the end of the week while intensifying intelligence efforts and restocking missiles.

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: It looks like President Trump has succeeded in getting a pause in the Lebanese conflict, while he focuses on establishing a sustainable peace with Iran.

Israel’s pattern of attacks on Lebanese journalists—including bombing their homes—has drawn the ire of the Lebanese government, who just days ago met with Israel for the first time ever at the White House to negotiate a ceasefire and the fate of Hezbollah.

What’s funny is that after that meeting, Israeli media presented the two sides as a united front that seeks to disarm and dismantle Hezbollah—which is the more significant fighting force over the official Lebanese military.

Now the Lebanese Prime Minister is accusing Israel of war crimes, citing the pattern of the IDF’s targeting of Lebanese journalists.

President Trump’s best friend and ambassador to Turkey/Syria, Tom Barrack, said in a Fox News interview yesterday that Hezbollah cannot be annihilated through military force, given its deep integration into Lebanese society over the past several decades.

Israel has formally acknowledged what it calls the “Advanced Defense Zone,” which is a zone on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border where the IDF says nobody is allowed. Any violators, it warns, will be shot.

At the same time, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to formally expand its border to include all of Palestine and parts of Lebanon and Syria. His justification is that the current borders do not offer topography that is easy to defend. So for the sake of security, entire villages will need to be erased from the map and thousands of people driven from their homeland. It is also being reported that Israel has already destroyed over 62,000 structures, including apartments and single-family homes.

Meanwhile, President Trump is beginning to rug the Zionists, as he declares that no nuclear weapons will be used. (Mark Levin and others have been calling for Trump to nuke Iran.)

Trump also reiterated that nobody will be pressuring him to put a timeline on his peace negotiations with Iran, despite Israeli media’s reporting that the Trump admin had told their counterparts in Tel Aviv that the deadline was Sunday.

There was also this clip that I found interesting. Many will listen to this and go in assuming that it is evidence of Trump’s status as an Israeli puppet.

When I listen to that, I hear President Trump feeding into the hubris of the Netanyahu regime.

At multiple times, Trump specifically says, “Israel will have to defend itself.”

It sounds, to me, that Israel is preparing to fight these wars alone, without US aid, and Trump is egging them on to continue fighting while he negotiates long-lasting peace deals with those same entities Israel seeks to destroy.

The net effect being that Israel will be fighting Iran by itself, and the rest of the world seems to realize that is going to go very poorly for the IDF, which failed to annihilate Hamas in Gaza, and now thinks it’s going to go slay the far more formidable dragon—Hezbollah—potentially without US assistance, which it had when fighting Hamas.

The question I have is which will break first: the IDF or the public support in Israel for Netanyahu?