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Interim US-Iran peace deal sparks anger among Israelis, who lash out at Netanyahu 88%
By JULIA FRANKEL0%
6/15/2026, 9:57:12 AM
Keywords: Donald Trump, Iran War, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, War And Unrest, Israel Government, Iran Government, International Agreements, Mideast Wars, Netanyahu Israel Iran Deal Trump, Anna Barsky, Yair Lapid, Nuclear Weapons, Iran, Itamar Ben Gvir, Politics, Daniel Shapiro, Ehud Barak, Hezbollah, Referendums, Yair Golan
BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Self-Serving Bias, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 41% saturation with 234 hits. Analysis detected 1,455 faulty-reasoning hits from 571 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.1% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,900 of 22,840 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.30% of the article peer group.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis from across the political spectrum reacted angrily Monday to the news of an initial deal between the U.S. and Iran, calling it a disaster for Israel and directing their fury at one man: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli leader said at a news conference Monday that “with an agreement, without an agreement,” he would continue fighting to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, which Tehran has long maintained it isn’t trying to do, saying its nuclear program is for civilian purposes.
“As long as I am the prime minister of Israel, it will not happen,” Netanyahu said, emphasizing that the deal was struck by the United States, not Israel, and that he didn’t budge on Iran’s request that Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon be part of the pact.
“Iran wanted us to withdraw from there, but that did not happen.
Do you know why it didn’t happen, among other reasons?
Because I stood very, very firm,” he said.
But other Israeli government officials, rivals, politicians and commentators were quick to criticize the preliminary deal, marking a sort of informal referendum on the premier’s tenure ahead of elections this fall and underscoring his deepening isolation at home, in the region and, increasingly, from the United States.
“Israel is paying the price of Netanyahu’s hubris and blindness, and the price of the manipulations that he tried to pull on Trump,” former Prime Minister and Netanyahu rival Ehud Barak said in an interview with Israel’s public broadcaster Monday.
“Iran emerged stronger; Israel emerged weaker.
That is Netanyahu’s strategic responsibility.
He failed.”
Yair Lapid, who will challenge Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, wrote Sunday that the deal, which would extend the tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, was shaping up to be “one of the most shocking failures in Israel’s foreign and security policy ... entirely registered in Netanyahu’s name.”
“It can be fixed, it must be fixed,” he wrote.
“Netanyahu can no longer fix it, we will do it.”
Critics say Netanyahu led President Donald Trump into the war with Iran while overpromising what it could achieve, and Trump now might be dragging Israel out of the conflict before it feels ready.
They say the prime minister misjudged Trump’s appetite for a protracted conflict, was outflanked by Iran in negotiations and grew increasingly sidelined by the region’s other major players.
“Israel believes that the war delayed the Iranian nuclear program, but did not change its objectives,” political commentator Anna Barsky wrote for Ma’ariv, a major Hebrew daily newspaper.
She said Israeli officials are also worried that under its deal with the U.S., Iran could receive a major influx of cash.
According to three regional officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, the agreement is expected to include the phased lifting of sanctions and a release of frozen Iranian assets.
“Trump signs an agreement that funnels billions to the Ayatollahs’ regime, leaves the nuclear infrastructure intact, preserves the ballistic threat as is, and throws a lifeline to the murderous regime in Tehran,” Yair Golan, center-left party leader and former general, posted on X.
“Israel’s campaign in Lebanon must not be compromised on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah,” Israel’s ultranationalist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, wrote on X.
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