00:20The ink is not even dry yet, and the U.S.-Iran deal may already be falling apart. Just hours
00:27after word broke that the United States and Iran have reached an understanding to end their 107-day
00:32conflict, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done something extraordinary.
00:37He has openly rejected one of the core pillars of that deal, before the public has even seen
00:43the full details. Here is what happened. Netanyahu has reportedly told President Trump directly that
00:50Israeli forces will not withdraw from Lebanon, and that Israel does not consider itself bound by the
00:55Lebanon clause inside the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding. Think about what that means.
01:02The United States and Iran have been negotiating for months to end this war. Pakistan's Prime
01:07Minister Shabazz Sharif has confirmed the breakthrough. Iranian state-linked media has
01:12already published details of a draft MOU. A formal signing ceremony is expected in Switzerland on
01:19Friday. And right in the middle of all that, Israel is saying, not so fast. This is not a quiet
01:25disagreement behind closed doors. This is a direct rejection of a core part of the agreement,
01:30communicated straight to Trump himself. And Trump's reaction was anything but diplomatic.
01:36After Israel carried out a strike in Beirut, President Trump said Netanyahu has, quote,
01:41no judgment whatsoever. He added, I am very unhappy. That is not the language used between close allies
01:49in a moment of celebration. That is the language of a U.S. president who feels blindsided by the one
01:55partner he cannot afford to lose control of. So why is Lebanon the line Netanyahu refuses to cross?
02:02According to multiple reports, Israel sees Lebanon as the next Gaza, not in terms of conflict alone,
02:09but in terms of long-term control. Reports suggest Israel intends to hold territory inside Lebanon
02:16and use that territory to establish settler presence, backed by continued military operations.
02:22And Hezbollah, according to these reports, is being used as the justification, the excuse that allows Israel
02:29to maintain forces on Lebanese soil even as the wider region moves toward a ceasefire framework with Iran.
02:35If true, this is not a side dispute. This is Israel signaling that its war aims go far beyond what
02:42the U.S.
02:42and Iran have agreed to. And while all of this unfolds, something else is happening, much closer to home.
02:50Unconfirmed reports indicate that right as the U.S.-Iran MOU appears close to finalization,
02:56Israeli settlers have been setting fire to cars and property across the West Bank.
03:01Videos circulating online show Palestinian villages burning.
03:05The timing here is impossible to ignore. As the world watches Switzerland and prepares for a
03:10historic signing on Friday, fires are breaking out on the ground in the West Bank, and Israel's
03:16prime minister is telling the U.S. president that one of the deal's central terms simply does not
03:21apply to him. So where does this leave the so-called end of the 107-day conflict?
03:27The U.S. and Iran may shake hands in Switzerland on Friday. But on the ground, in Lebanon, in the
03:34West
03:34Bank, and inside the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv, the cracks are already showing.
03:40And if Netanyahu continues to defy the Lebanon clause, the question is no longer whether this deal
03:46will hold, the question is whether it ever really started at all.
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