Ben-Gvir calls Lebanon ceasefire a 'serious mistake'

Israel’s minister of national security and genocide fanatic, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has called the potential ceasefire with Lebanon a ‘serious mistake’.

Importantly, the ceasefire would effectively surrender Southern Lebanon to Israel, with zero promise from Israel to stop attacking. Obviously, Hezbollah has declined the offer.

So the “ceasefire” would effectively cede southern Lebanon to Israel without any promise by Israel to stop attacking.

Hezbollah has declined this offer. https://t.co/RLXooXsPYb

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 4, 2026

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Israel Katz, Israel’s Defence Minister, said the U.S.-brokered Lebanon ceasefire declaration includes:

an unequivocal statement on the disarmament of Hezbollah, the removal of Hezbollah terrorists from the area south of the Litani River, the continued presence of the IDF in the security area, and freedom of action for Israel

Essentially, it would allow Israel to annex Southern Lebanon, which is a victory for no one except Israel.

Despite this, in a post on X, Ben-Gvir said:

The ceasefire with Lebanon is a serious mistake and the pipe dreams of advisors who are dragging the prime minister into incorrect decisions.

Hezbollah has not left the area south of the Litani, and the Lebanese army has no way to enforce its evacuation.

Of course, we would expect no less from a man who advocated for the death penalty for Palestinians, has at least eight criminal convictions, including for terrorism, and has repeatedly called for the ethnic cleansing of Arabs.

His post also ignores one fundamental fact. Hezbollah is defending sovereign Lebanese territory, which Israel is illegally occupying. Under international law, it has that right.

The United Nations reaffirms:

the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;

Israel is an illegal, colonialist, occupying power. It has no ‘right’ to Palestine, Lebanon, the Syrian Golan Heights, or any other country.

Ben-Gvir added:

The state of Lebanon is a partner of Hezbollah. There are ministers in its government from Hezbollah, and relatives of Hezbollah members serve in the Lebanese army.

Crucially, Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon. Israel, the US, and many other Western countries may have labelled it a ‘terrorist organisation’, but that’s only because it’s a threat to Israel’s colonialist goal of a ‘Greater Israel’.

Hezbollah has repeatedly said it would “confront any project that serves Israel”. Back in September, when a previous ceasefire was proposed, Hezbollah maintained that the disarmament plan, which the Lebanese government approved, only served Israel’s interests.

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Ben-Gvir also claimed that Netanyahu should have told Trump:

We love and appreciate you, but Israel is a sovereign and independent state, and it cannot come to terms with the strengthening of a terrorist organization and with its very existence on its border.

Israel has zero right to exist. The genocidal terrorists have literally built their illegal settlements on stolen land and the graves of Palestinians. If Israel is so worried about people fighting back, maybe it should stop attacking, murdering, and bombing native people.

Colonisers will never accept the presence of indigenous people.

Colonisers will never accept the presence of the indigenous people around them, every southerner is a threat every, woman is a mother for future fighters, every old man links a younger man to the land, every child is a future threat and we surely are and will forever be https://t.co/yDBenZXRLF

— Mejid (@Ilmejid) June 4, 2026

This is Gaza all over again. Israel was supposed to fully withdraw its troops under the ceasefire agreement, which it signed in October. However, instead of withdrawing, the IOF has continued to steal even more land and even build military bases in towns it has flattened. During the ceasefire alone, Israel has murdered over 910 people in Gaza.

Israel has never kept to any ceasefire agreement in history, so what do we expect now?

Moreover, how can there ever be peace when openly genocidal people, such as Ben-Gvir and his cronies, are in power?

There is a pattern. Israel signs a ceasefire. The IOF kills more people and steals more land. Israel moans that people are fighting back. The IOF has to defeat ‘terrorists’. Unfortunately, the cycle will keep repeating until the international community grows a backbone.

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