{"id":495410,"date":"2026-06-16T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495410\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:06:07","slug":"if-israel-cant-do-the-job-syria-should-donald-trump-warns-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495410\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If Israel can’t do the job, Syria should,’ Donald Trump warns on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, Syria should do the job,” said US President Donald Trump<\/a> in a bilateral meeting with the Emir of the State of Qatar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Trump says he considers the Lebanon war a minor one, and an arena in which Syria can take on Hezbollah in partnership with the United States if Israel under Netanyahu cannot be reigned in.<\/p>\n

“Israel’s fighting Hezbollah for too long, and too many people are being killed. You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses and they’re not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you,” the president said.<\/p>\n

“I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah, because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it.”<\/p>\n

Trump then praised the President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa<\/a>, saying, “he has pulled that country together very quickly, he’s very capable, and he’s very good for me. He’s protected everything that I’ve asked for.”<\/p>\n

When asked if he was frustrated with Netanyahu<\/a>, he responded, “No, we have a great relationship.”<\/p>\n

The president continued, saying, “I didn’t like that he did an attack [over] a very minor little thing with some drones. I saw that attack, I saw where that bomb went. That was a vicious… that was too much. You can do too much also. But we’ve had a very effective relationship.<\/p>\n

“Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel – because no other president was willing to do what I did. I had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“If Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, Syria should do the job,” said US President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,85,143294,46,88,43],"class_list":["post-495410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran-and-us","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}