US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be “more responsible” on Lebanon, while criticizing the scale of Israeli military operations against the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Anadolu reports.
Speaking to reporters in France, Trump said: “I’ve had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.”
“I would say, of all countries, they’ve been treated the worst, and they can’t defend themselves, and they have Hezbollah, which is a problem for them, so no, I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah,” he said in France, where he is attending G7 meetings.
Trump also underscored US support for Israel, saying, “Without the US, there’d be no Israel,” adding that Israel “would have been blown up a long time ago had I not gotten involved.”
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