TRT World June 19, 2026
The US-Iran agreement has been viewed in Israel as harmful to its interests, underscoring Netanyahu’s limited success in influencing Trump’s approach.
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Friday that “all of Lebanon must burn” after Israel’s military announced the deaths of four soldiers there.
The Israeli losses were the first to be announced since a US-Iran deal was signed to end the Middle East war.
The agreement was also supposed to halt the fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Washington has expressed frustration at Israel’s continued military offensive there.
“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not up for bargaining. All of Lebanon must burn,” Ben-Gvir said in a statement.
“For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep,” he added.
“In the Near East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint.”
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel must “go wild. Eradicate. Defeat terrorism.”
“We must let fire speak… and open the gates of hell,” he added, without explicitly mentioning Lebanon.
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Avigdor Lieberman, head of the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu opposition party, called on Friday for a “heavy price” to be exacted in Lebanon “from which the other side will never recover”.
If Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, “are still standing, this is a direct failure of the prime minister and the defence minister”, he wrote on X.
Earlier on Friday, at least 24 people were killed and several others injured in a series of Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s official news agency (NNA).
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According to the latest official figures, Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon, which began on March 2, has killed 3,912 people, injured 11,873 others, and displaced more than one million residents.
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Also recommended:
UNICEF calls Gaza ceasefire ‘deadly illusion’ as Israel kills 265 Palestinian children despite truce:
https://www.trtworld.com/article/b951435bf51f
and
“The Israeli Dream”: The Criminal Roadmap Towards “Greater Israel”? Felicity Arbuthnot Ethnic Cleansing Planned in the Middle East? History, Legality Ignored
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-israeli-dream-the-criminal-roadmap-towards-greater-israel/5391839
We repost this important article by Felicity Arbuthnot, first published by Global Research in 2014.]
The concept of a “Greater Israel” according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “’From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.’
Rabbi Fischmann, of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, stated to the UN Special Committee on 9th July 1947 that:
The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon’”, wrote Michel Chossudovsky. (1)
Thus “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” Herzl’s detailed thesis was written in 1904.
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Quoted in the same article is Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya on The Yinon Plan (1982) “ … a continuation of Britain’s colonial design in the Middle East”:
“(The Yinon plan) is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
“Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.”
At the time Yinon wrote, the eight year, Western driven Iran-Iraq war was into its second year – with another six grinding years of loss, tragedy and heartbreak, valleys of widows, orphans, maimed, on both sides of their common border. The toll on life and health was compared to World War 1. Iraq of course, in an historic error, had virtually been fighting a proxy war for an American regime, even then obsessed with Islam, which, in Iran they had decided was the wrong sort of Islam. What the faith of a nation thousands of miles away had to do with Capitol Hill, remains a mystery.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-israeli-dream-the-criminal-roadmap-towards-greater-israel/5391839
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