Hours after Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire agreed upon with Iran as an initial step toward negotiating a lasting peace treaty - Tel Aviv launched more than one hundred attacks against civilian targets in Lebanon, resulting in the killing of at least 250 people and leaving thousands wounded. According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the Levantine nation, Imran Riza, "whatever the current figures may be, they are going to be much higher," due to the devastation of residential areas and the limitations of healthcare services, which have been decimated by Beirut's internal turmoil and half a century of intermittent Israeli aggression.
In response, Teheran pointed out that the pause in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon is part of the 10-point peace plan agreed upon with Trump. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi warned Washington that it must choose between respecting the ceasefire or continuing the war by proxy through Israel, as a truce is incompatible with the massacre of defenseless civilians. Furthermore, the Iranian Parliament denounced that, even before the commencement of peace talks, the United States had already violated at least three of the ten points that the Republican had publicly acknowledged as a viable basis for negotiation. However, Trump reneged on his prior commitment: he asserted that Israel's acts of aggression against Lebanon constituted "a separate skirmish" and stated that this was not the issue.
From any standpoint it is evident that the resurgence of Israeli sadism against the Lebanese people constitutes a deliberate act of sabotage against negotiations with Iran, as noted by Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League. The weight of this assertion rests not only on the interest of the Arab petro-monarchies of the Persian Gulf in bringing an end to the conflict, but also on the fact that this multilateral body harbors no sympathy whatsoever toward Teheran; on the contrary, it maintains a tense relationship with the Islamic Republic for religious, historical, and geopolitical reasons.
It is clear that the regime led by Benjamin Netanyahu - a fugitive from the International Criminal Court - stands today as the foremost agent of global destabilization and the most insidious instigator of wars and violations of international law, displaying absolutely no scruples in carrying out indiscriminate massacres whenever it deems such actions to yield some political or personal benefit. For years, its objectives appeared to align with those of Trump and his family; however, it has become increasingly difficult to conceal the growing divergence between the Zionist regime's plans for perpetual war and the occupant of the White House's urgent desire to extricate himself from a military campaign that was already unpopular before devolving into the resounding and irreversible failure it has become at this juncture.
For a long time critics of Zionism have maintained that the relationship between the global superpower and Tel Aviv is a rare instance of "the tail wagging the dog"; yet, this notion has been dismissed as a conspiracy theory rooted in animosity toward Israel. However, given the manner in which Trump is repeatedly compelled to embrace actions taken by Netanyahu - actions that are clearly burdensome to him and of which he appears not to have even been informed - it is inevitable to wonder what the source of the latter's influence over the former truly is, and to what extent the tycoon has accelerated the collapse of U.S. hegemony in order to serve the agenda of the most recalcitrant Zionism.
-----La Jornada editorial, April 9, 2026 (translated from Spanish)
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