Smoke rising from an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on April 13, 2026. REUTERS/Florion Goga Western media remain utterly incoherent ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli-Lebanese talks in Washington because their Israel Derangement Syndrome renders them unable to acknowledge basic facts.
For starters, the Jewish state is not at war with Lebanon, but with Hezbollah, the terror group that occupies the country’s south and until recently had the government bullied into complete submission.
It’s a war Hezbollah started — most recently, ending a cease-fire by launching missiles at Israel in revenge for Jerusalem’s assaults on Iran in conjunction with Operation Epic Fury.
Israel is in the process of evicting Hezbollah from Lebanon south of the Litani River — as per the accords that ended the 2006 war, though neither the weak government nor the less-than-worthless UN peacekeeping force lifted a finger to make it happen.
Yet most analysis pretends the current Israeli offensive is about something else entirely:
“Did Israel attack Lebanon to spoil Iran war ceasefire?” asked The Guardian last week.
“What is Israel’s war in Lebanon, and why could it shatter the Iran ceasefire?” blared CNN.
Not only was that (obviously) never the point, it was never even a risk: That cease-fire hasn’t even ended as the US Navy blockades the Strait of Hormuz, because Tehran doesn’t dare let the bombing resume.
Plus, the Iran cease-fire deal never included Lebanon, as President Donald Trump made plain last week; Hezbollah and its patrons in Tehran just tried to pretend it did.
For decades, Iran’s Hezbollah proxy has staged terror strikes into Israel; Jerusalem’s recent strikes have been a model of restraint. (Imagine how Washington would react if China used proxy paramilitaries in Mexico to fire missiles at Dallas, Phoenix or San Diego.)
The global media simply turn a blind eye to these facts for the same reasons that prompted The New York Times and the Economist to insist that Iran is winning this war: An anti-Israel, anti-civilization narrative has utterly colonized their brains.
