BUT. By giving Hezbollah credibility - he says he had a "conversation with Representatives of the Leaders of Hezbollah", the Iranian terrorist organization operating in Lebanon - instead of finishing the job, Donald Dumb is re-starting the 45-year-old vicious cycle of violence in southern Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. Which means that Lebanon will, again, be at the mercy of Hezbollah's Quixotic "resistance" against Israel on behalf of the barbarian regime in Tehran, and at the mercy of the equally barbarian Zionist colony in Palestine.
Did Donald Dumb violate anti-terrorism laws by speaking with a terrorist organization?
Donald Dumb continues a long history of Republican Administrations that began with a braggard approach to the torment of Lebanon, only to back down and stab the small country in the back by abandoning it to its enemies.
- Eisenhower sent some 10,000 US marines to Beirut in 1958 (Operation Blue Bat) to protect Lebanon against Arab dictatorial revolutions in Iraq and Egypt. This is the only and last US intervention that did help Lebanon.
- Nixon dispatched Henry Kissinger to Damascus after the October 1973 war with Israel. The 1974 agreement between Assad and Kissinger consisted of Assad pledging to accept Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in exchange for raping Lebanon, which Assad did for thirty long years between 1974 and 2005.
- Reagan dispatched US marines to Beirut in 1982 to supervise the evacuation of the Palestinian militias that had been crushed by the Israeli invasion. When Hezbollah, a few-days-old Iranian mercenary militia bombed the Marines Headquarters, killing 241 US Marines, Ronald Reagan the "great" republican asshole withdrew the remainder of his troops, abandoning Lebanon to Syria and Iran. Had Reagan stood his ground in 1983, Lebanon would have been spared the four decades of violence since.
- George H.W. Bush made another deal with the Syrian dictatorship during the 1980s: Assad and Iran's proxy Hezbollah had seized US hostages, so the jackass Bush Sr. imposed a Syrian-approved puppet candidate for the Lebanese presidency against the wishes of the Lebanese people just to get the hostages back.
- Later in 1990-1991, the same jackass Bush Sr. and his Secretary of State James Baker the Turd, forced Israel to ignore its red line (Syrian air force jets were prohibited from flying over Lebanese air space) for just one day and allow the Syrian air force to bomb the presidential palace in Beirut and dislodge the legitimate government of Lebanon. The reason? Bush and Baker needed Stalinist Syria, which topped the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, to join the coalition against Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
- Then, post 9-11, Republican Bush Jr. (George W Bush) did help get Syria's occupation army out of Lebanon in 2005, but only reluctantly and in exchange for re-installing the criminal warlords and Hezbollah in power.
The gist of all these republican administrations' policies on Lebanon is that genuinely assisting the Christian-dominated tiny country in exiting the Sunni Arab-Jewish Israeli-Shiite Iranian cycle of violence would upset the Sunni Muslim - and often Islamist - Saudis, Kuwaitis, Egyptians. Libyans and other oil-rich Arabs. The Bush family has substantial oil interests and friendships with the Sunni Muslim Arab countries, and helping a semi-Christian Lebanon would disturb the oil-lubed friendship between the Republican Americans and the Saudis (whose 16 terrorists were responsible for the September 11, 2001 bombing in new York).
Lovely, isn't it?
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Report: Trump upbraids Netanyahu over Lebanon, asking, ‘What the f— are you doing?’
Max Rego
Mon, June 1, 2026
President Trump reportedly took Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to task during a Monday phone call over the latter’s military campaign in Lebanon.
Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call, that Trump called Netanyahu “crazy” and accused him of ingratitude.
At one point, Trump reportedly yelled at Netanyahu, “What the f— are you doing?”
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
Earlier Monday, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to strike Hezbollah targets in the Dahiyeh (Arabic for suburb) district of Beirut. Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in fighting since October 2023, despite a ceasefire that began in November 2024.
Officials in Iran, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, have said that Israeli strikes in Lebanon constitute a violation of the ceasefire that Washington and Tehran agreed to on April 7. Trump said Monday that talks between his administration and the Islamic Republic on a lasting peace are ongoing.
“The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Araghchi wrote Monday on the social platform X. “Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.”
After the phone call with Netanyahu, which he touted as “productive,” Trump said that no Israeli troops will head to Beirut.
“I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today, asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. “He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi!”
Trump added, “I also had a conversation with Representatives of the Leaders of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel, and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them. Let’s see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY!”
Later Monday, Netanyahu wrote on X that he told Trump, “that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens—Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut.”
Netanyahu added that the IDF “will continue to operate as planned” in southern Lebanon. Beirut, the capital, is on the eastern [sic] coast of Lebanon — in line with the center of the country. [Correction from LI: Beirut is on the western coast of Lebanon along the eastern Mediterranean].
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