How Israel Derangement Syndrome blinds media to basic Mideast facts
By Post Editorial Board
Published April 13, 2026, 6:25 p.m. ET
Western media remain utterly incoherent ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli-Lebanese talks in Washington because their Israel Derangement Syndrome renders them unable to acknowledge basic facts.
For starters, the Jewish state is not at war with Lebanon, but with Hezbollah, the terror group that occupies the country’s south and until recently had the government bullied into complete submission.
It’s a war Hezbollah started — most recently, ending a cease-fire by launching missiles at Israel in revenge for Jerusalem’s assaults on Iran in conjunction with Operation Epic Fury.
Israel is in the process of evicting Hezbollah from Lebanon south of the Litani River — as per the accords that ended the 2006 war, though neither the weak government nor the less-than-worthless UN peacekeeping force lifted a finger to make it happen.
Yet most analyses pretend the current Israeli offensive is about something else entirely:
“Did Israel attack Lebanon to spoil Iran war ceasefire?” asked The Guardian last week.
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