At his press conference during the G-7 summit in Geneva, President Trump engaged in a mendacious and demagogical diatribe against Israel’s conduct in Lebanon. The fight against Hezbollah takes too long, he said, and too many people are dying. When some drones fall in the desert and do not cause any harm, he continued, you don’t need to go bomb apartment buildings in Beirut. They (i.e. Israel) are not doing well, he concluded.

Firstly, there is no desert in northern Israel. Secondly, those particular drones may not have harmed anyone, but they were meant to kill, and they certainly terrorized. Currently, northern Israel is virtually unlivable because of Hezbollah’s attacks, with thousands of Israelis abandoning the area, leaving behind properties, livelihoods, schools, relationships. To Trump this is irrelevant. The hypocrisy of his rant was so glaring it was risible. Not long ago, an American Apache helicopter was brought down by an Iranian drone. The pilots managed to extract themselves; there was no harm to life. Yet Trump perceived this, rightfully so, as an attack on America, and two days of heavy bombing of Iran by America followed. But Israel, according to the President, should just acquiesce to explosive-laden drones lobbed into their sovereign territory, so long as they don’t kill anyone, even if their purpose is to kill and terrorize.

Trump then went on........

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