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Netanyahu on Fox: Ceasefire Violations, Supreme Court Defiance, and Annexation Claims
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With the reflecting pool drama still fresh, Meiselas pivots to an equally jarring story: Benjamin Netanyahu's Fox News appearance on July 4th. In the 48 hours prior, Israeli forces demolished the Al-Dwahr neighborhood in Bin Jbeil, conducted an airstrike on a southern Lebanese town, and Netanyahu announced he would not comply with an Israeli Supreme Court ruling on media regulation — behaviors Meiselas draws an explicit parallel to Trump's own assault on regulatory institutions. Yet Netanyahu's message on Fox was pure peace-president branding: four Abraham Accords deals, the weakening of Iran, the dawn of a new regional alignment. Then came the most arresting claim: Lebanese Christian villages, he said, have actually asked to be annexed to Israel for protection against Hezbollah. Meiselas closes with a four-word verdict — 'Ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous' — before signing off with a call to subscribe.
After violating ceasefire agreements in Lebanon and defying an Israeli Supreme Court ruling, Netanyahu went on Fox News to claim Lebanese Christians were asking Israel to annex them. He also claimed he and Trump are the world's greatest peace presidents.
Netanyahu claimed on Fox News that he and Trump had brokered four peace deals through the Abraham Accords.
