Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n
19 June 2026\u2022Update: 19 June 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Friday criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, warning that Israel\u2019s international relations were deteriorating following growing tensions with key allies.<\/p>\n
In a post on US social media company X, Lapid pointed to a series of recent diplomatic disputes involving senior Israeli officials and international partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past day, the U.S. Vice President got angry at a press conference over Smotrich and Ben Gvir, Foreign Minister Sa’ar cut ties with the European Union’s foreign minister, and President Trump said Netanyahu is showing irresponsibility in Lebanon,\u201d Lapid wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don’t quickly replace this government, Israel’s foreign relations will be wiped out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Lapid\u2019s remarks came amid growing debate in Israel over the government\u2019s handling of relations with Washington and European partners following the signing of a US-Iran memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the regional conflict.<\/p>\n
US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday strongly rejected criticism from Israeli officials over the agreement, saying some had \u201cvery personally attacked the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron also said that US President Donald Trump was right to urge Netanyahu to \u201cshow a sense of responsibility,\u201d while criticizing Israel\u2019s military strategy in Lebanon, Gaza and the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The comments reflect mounting diplomatic pressure on Israel as efforts continue to implement the US-Iran agreement and secure a broader regional ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Sio 19 June 2026\u2022Update: 19 June 2026 Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-500552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500552","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=500552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}