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Trump Assails Israel's Tactics in Lebanon, Says It's Killing Civilians ⁠48%

By Humeyra Pamuk⁠0%

6/17/2026, 12:04:59 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Authority, and Halo Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 17.2% saturation with 87 hits. Analysis detected 694 faulty-reasoning hits from 507 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠48% (11,435 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 52.20% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a rare public rebuke of Israel's military tactics in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants, saying it was unnecessary to bomb entire apartment buildings to hunt militants. 
Trump, who in recent days had expressed his displeasure over Israeli attacks in Beirut that he said could have ‌endangered his peace deal with Iran, said Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, the Iran-aligned Lebanese militia, for "too long." 
"Too ​many people have been killed. 
You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're ⁠not all Hezbollah," Trump said at the G7 summit in France. 
His complaint comes at a moment of rising ​tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has remained a key political ally despite occasional ups and downs between the ⁠two leaders over the years. 
Recently, tensions have been more prominent. 
Israeli officials are quietly expressing frustration about the Iran deal that the Republican president struck while Trump is growing impatient with Netanyahu over Israeli strikes of Beirut, which triggered Iranian attacks just when he was working to finalize the peace deal. 
Trump ‌said he has a "great relationship" with Netanyahu but in the same breath added that he should be "more ​responsible" with Lebanon. 
"Without us, without ‌the United States, there would be no Israel. 
Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did." 
The two leaders have ‌repeatedly clashed over Israel's refusal to constrain its pursuit of Hezbollah in Lebanon, where a cessation of hostilities is a key Iranian demand. 
Trump and other U.S. presidents do not often criticize Israel's military tactics. 
Shortly after he made his ⁠comments, an official White House social media account that ‌typically shares clips of his public comments posted ⁠a video of those specific remarks. 
The White House did not say why the official account chose to post those Trump remarks but said the ⁠president has ⁠a strong relationship with Netanyahu and that the Israel Defense Forces were "incredible partners." 
"There has been no greater friend to Israel and a fighter for peace than President Trump... 
Americans and ‌our allies around the world are already safer for the United States and Israel’s bold actions to deny the Iranian regime the ability to develop a nuclear weapon," a White House official said. 
There is no indication that Trump's comments would translate into meaningful ‌policy that would ​force Israel to rethink its military tactics ‌in a way to ensure greater protection for civilians. 
Israel has faced sharp criticism from other countries, particularly during its assault on Gaza that has killed 73,000 people, most of them civilians, according to the Gaza health ministry. 
Israel ​says it never targets non-combatants and says militant groups such as Palestinian Hamas and Hezbollah regularly use civilians as human shields. 
A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Washington did not have any comment for this story.  
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