From the Liveblog of
Monday, June 15, 2026
Liberman: Netanyahu leading us to worse disaster than Obama deal
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Israel must not allow the United States to create a linkage between the ceasefire with Iran and the conflict in Lebanon, Avigdor Liberman declares — arguing that if the Trump administration’s pending agreement with Iran had been signed during the previous Bennett-Lapid government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “would have accused us of treason.”
Accusing Netanyahu of leading Israel to a “diplomatic disaster much worse than Obama’s agreement” with Tehran in 2015, Liberman tells reporters ahead of his hawkish Yisrael Beytenu opposition party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset that Israel “must inform the US that we do not accept any linkage, any connection, between the Iranian arena and the Lebanese arena.”
Jerusalem must be prepared to retaliate against Hezbollah and Iranian attacks, he insists, asserting that “for every Iranian launch at Israel, we should respond by destroying Kharg Island and the port of Bandar Abbas.”
Liberman also calls for the creation of an Israeli missile force and insists that “from now on, Mossad must focus on one mission only — overthrowing the ayatollah regime.”
The Times of Israel Community.