{"id":10048,"date":"2026-06-10T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:44:00","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-historic-message-to-lebanon-time-to-free-yourselves-from-hezbollah-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10048","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu: Historic message to Lebanon &#8211; &#8220;Time to free yourselves from Hezbollah&#8221; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls <b>on the Lebanese people to reject Hezbollah<\/b> and to <b>open the road to peace, security<\/b> and stability <b>in the Middle East<\/b> region.<\/p>\n<p>In <b>a particularly sharp and politically charged intervention<\/b> that intensifies the <b>discussion surrounding developments in the Middle East<\/b>, <b>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/b> addressed a message <b>to the people of Lebanon<\/b>, attempting to clearly separate <b>the country&#8217;s government and population from Hezbollah<\/b>. The <b>Israeli prime minister<\/b> argued that the <b>Israeli organization acts as an agent of destabilizing and limiting Lebanon&#8217;s national sovereignty<\/b>, calling on <b>citizens<\/b> to take the initiative <b>for a different political and strategic future<\/b>. The message is <b>in the broader context of the ongoing tension on the northern border of Israel<\/b><\/a> and highlights the <b>rhetorical escalation<\/b> between the two sides, <b>against the backdrop of regional balances and Iran&#8217;s role in the region<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli <b>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/b> today <b>appealed to the Lebanese to join forces with Israel<\/b> in the <b>combat against Hezbollah<\/b>, stressing <b>how their country is &#8220;hostage&#8221; to the Shiite movement<\/b> backed by <b>Iran<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0639\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646\u064a pic.twitter.com\/I2aU7MYV6P<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 (@netanyahu) June 10, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3>The Message<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is not at war with you. We are at war with Hezbollah, which is holding your country hostage,&#8221; Netanyahu said in a video message in English. &#8220;We long for peace with you, with Lebanon,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take the future in your hands,&#8221; Netanyahu urged Lebanese. &#8220;Let us build security and prosperity for all our children,&#8221; the Israeli prime minister continued, assuring that &#8220;once Hezbollah is dislodged, the prospects will be limitless.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He calls on the Lebanese people to reject Hezbollah and pave the way for peace, security and stability in the Middle East region.In &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}