Netanyahu Takes The Hit As Iran Ultimatum Lands; Israel Defies Ceasefire Over Lebanon

A ceasefire was announced, Netanyahu tried to carve Lebanon out of it, and Trump has ended up looking weaker than ever. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn a ceasefire into a public confession. A stop has been announced by both Iran and the Trump administration and as part of the terms agreed, the ceasefire on Iran covers other war fronts too, it covers Lebanon as well. Well, Netanyahu then came out in full Nutty Yahoo mode and said Lebanon does not count. Well who gave you permission to change the agreed terms? His is a lovely little peace plan if you are a liar, because what he is actually saying is yes to the ceasefire where it suits him and no where it doesn’t. Now I realise Netanyahu thinks he runs the US and arguably he does, but he can’t negotiate directly in that regard no matter how much he might like to. Israeli Arabic mouthpiece Avichay Adraee then told people south of the Zahrani River – well to the north of the Litani to get out because the fighting in Lebanon is continuing, and the Israeli military followed that with more than one hundred strikes in ten minutes. So there is your answer straight away. Trump says stop. Netanyahu says make me. Trump goes quiet and Iran gets handed the easiest argument in the world, because this is not a ceasefire being honoured, it is a ceasefire being picked apart on arrival, right not to trust the other side as Iran have made clear that they don’t and here’s the proof justification. Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime minister, announced the ceasefire on behalf of both parties and said Lebanon was part of it. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, then slithered out and said Lebanon was excluded, because that is how this works with him. He wants the public credit for saying yes to a truce, while keeping the one bit of the war he still wants to prosecute. That is permanently on repeat dodge. The label stays nice and tidy for the cameras, then the actual content gets hacked to pieces over the bit he doesn’t like and refuses to adhere to. So ultimately as far as the mainstream media are concerned Trump gets his peace headline, Netanyahu claims a loophole, and people in southern Lebanon get the explosions.