Netanyahu smokes, ally rage over Trump's Iran deal

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• Israel and Hezbollah are not parties to the agreement.

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• Netanyahu, he said, has “no fucking judgment”.

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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel’s military will stay in southern Lebanon, where it has occupied up to 10km (6 miles) from the border.

  according to South China Morning Post — World

• The Times of Israel’s editor, David Horowitz, called it a “ catastrophic capitulation .” Israel’s Channel 12 news correspondent Nir Dvori even likened the deal to a “diplomatic Oct.

  according to The New Republic

• When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered a strike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut on June 14, Donald Trump was not amused.

  according to The Conversation UK — Articles

• One prime-time host on Netanyahu-aligned Channel 14 called Vice President Vance a "scumbag" and used an antisemitic slur to accuse Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner of selling out Israel for financial gain.

  according to Axios — All

• Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty June 17, 2026, 4:28 PM ET In 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu draped buildings with giant banners that depicted him shaking hands with a grinning Donald Trump.

  according to The Atlantic

• When Bill Clinton first met Netanyahu in the summer of 1996, Netanyahu lectured him about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

  according to The Conversation UK — Articles

• When Netanyahu visited Washington, DC in 1998 to face pressure from Clinton to relinquish territory in the West Bank, he spent the night before giving a speech to a thousand members of the pro-Israeli Christian right, a group vocally opposed to Clinton.

  according to The Conversation UK — Articles

• During a hot mic incident in 2011, before the deal was even an issue, French leader Nicholas Sarkozy told Obama that Netanyahu was “a liar”.

  according to The Conversation UK — Articles

• Benjamin Netanyahu angered Barack Obama due to his opposition to the then US president’s nuclear deal with Iran in 2015.

  according to The Conversation UK — Articles

• There will be no repeat of Netanyahu's address to Congress in 2015 to rally opposition to then-President Obama's Iran deal.

  according to Axios — All

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• Israel and Hezbollah are not parties to the agreement.

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• "Bibi is a good man.

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• Netanyahu, he said, has “no fucking judgment”.

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• This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has dipped his hand into funds appropriated by his own budget bill.

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