Trump Fulminates Against Netanyahu

 

A cruel and calamitous message to Israel.

 

June 17, 2026

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Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine

 

Oh dear. Those Israelis keep thinking that when Hezbollah sends rockets and missiles flying into northern Israel, it is right and proper and absolutely necessary that they respond. And they do. But the current president of the United States doesn’t want Israel to exercise its right of self-defense. It gets in the way, you see, of his “deal.” And his deal is more important than Israel defending itself.

Two weeks ago, he told the world that he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “you are f**king crazy.” And he demanded that Israel not strike Beirut. Netanyahu responded by accommodating Trump, ceasing attacks in Beirut unless and until Hezbollah struck Israel. Which the terror group did. And so the Israelis again attacked in Beirut, but quite mildly, hitting only a single command-and-control center in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh. Trump said he was shocked when his advisers called to brief him about the Israeli strike in Beirut, and he fumed at Netanyahu: “It is so bad — I couldn’t believe it. An hour before we are supposed to sign the deal.”

Trump acknowledged Hezbollah attacked Israel first, but stressed that the attack hadn’t caused any damage, and nobody had been killed. “Why did Bibi have to do a f**king attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no f**king judgement. I let him know that,” Trump said.

I think Netanyahu, who has been dealing with the threat to his country from Hezbollah and its backer Iran for thirty years, knows better how to deal with the terror group than the vain, opinionated, foul-mouthed, grasping lout (who thirty years ago was busy buying the Miss Universe Pageant) who presumes to tell him what to do.

Look, it is very simple. Trump is desperate for a “deal” with Iran, whose calculating and sinister leaders have been leading him by the nose The Iranians will, I am sure, not agree to ending their ballistic missile program, which right now is the main military threat to both Israel and to the Gulf Arab states. They will not give up their support for their regional proxies — Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. They will demand, and get, an end to the American blockade of Iranian ports. They will be given tens of billions of dollars in unfrozen Iranian assets. And they will promise to surrender only their 144 kg. of uranium enriched to a level of 60%, but right now the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineers have been blowing up the tunnels to the sites where that uranium is located, and it may now be impossible to retrieve.

Instead of bullying Netanyahu, Trump ought to have taken the side of his embattled ally. The fanatics who run Iran may hate the Great Satan, but it is the Lesser Satan that is first to be threatened with annihilation. Netanyahu is fighting for the very survival of his country. Trump is not. He has been yielding now on this point and now on that, so that the Iranians will finally, and oh so begrudgingly, agree. And when that deal is done, Trump will proclaim himself worthy of a Nobel Prize. Trump should have recognized — as he has never done — that it is not just Israel that wants to see Hezbollah dismantled. So do most of the Lebanese people, who detest Hezbollah and wish It to disappear. All of the Lebanese Christians and Sunni Muslims, and even many of the country’s Shia, are hoping that Israel is successful in destroying Hezbollah. Trump should publicly acknowledge that. But he won’t.

And to coarsely curse Netanyahu for the latest IDF attack on a Hezbollah command-and-control center, in response to an attack on Israel, just so that Trump can trumpet that he has made “the deal of the century” or the “greatest deal in all of history,” is both cruel and calamitous.