Hegseth Compares Himself to Jesus as Iran War Spirals Out of His Control #1742

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David Feldman

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

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Israel & Lebanon announce ceasefire — but Netanyahu says troops stay while hardliners push for "Greater Israel" south of the Litani River Trump invites Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to the White House (first talks in 34 years) Pope Leo goes to war with the Trump administration — JD Vance, Tom Homan, and Catholic Charities funding cuts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unhinged Pentagon press conference: compares the Iran war to Jesus, calls journalists modern-day Pharisees, and channels his controversial Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson The brutal reality of America's war with Iran: Strait of Hormuz blockade, exploding oil prices, running out of missiles, low public support, and mounting casualties Plus: RFK Jr.'s raccoon genitalia story, Marjorie Taylor Greene's death-threat call with Trump, John Eastman disbarred, record April heat wave, and more cabinet scandals

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0:00.0	This is the mop-up. I'm David Feldman in New York City. Thank you for finding me. We have supposedly a ceasefire between the Israelis and Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli troops would remain in Lebanon, but for the next 10 days would stop their targeting of Hezbollah soldiers.
0:23.7	Now, Hezbollah has not acknowledged whether or not they're going to obey the troops and or ceasefire.
0:31.9	And this is a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
0:36.6	You have to negotiate with Hezbollah, not the president or prime
0:40.3	minister of Lebanon. Several hundred thousand Lebanese civilians have been forced to leave their
0:46.2	home south of the Latani River where much of the fighting has taken place. There's no word
0:53.2	as to whether any of these civilians will be allowed to return to their homes.
0:58.2	I'm going to show you a lot of maps today.
1:00.3	So you're looking at Israel, and there's the Latani River in southern Lebanon, and the buffer zone between the Latani River and northern Israel.
1:11.3	That's where hardliners inside the Netanyahu government are planning to create what they
1:19.8	call a greater Israel, refusing to cede any land south of the Latani River, which means
1:27.4	what they want is Israeli settlements
1:31.2	in the occupied territory of southern Lebanon, much like what's going on right now in the occupied
1:38.7	territory of the West Bank. These are the hard right people inside Netanyahu's coalition government
1:47.1	who want to create a greater Israel. Donald Trump has invited the Israeli prime minister
1:52.7	and Lebanon's president, Joseph Aoun, to the White House, marking the first time leaders
1:58.6	from both countries talked in nearly 34 years.
2:02.9	Negotiations, peace talks on Tuesday were held at the State Department that was low-level
2:09.4	ambassadors from Lebanon and Israel talking.
2:14.1	The leaders of Lebanon and Israel have not talked for 34 years. And Benjamin Netanyahu,
2:19.0	the Prime Minister of Israel, was supposed to talk with the Lebanese president on Thursday before
2:27.2	or after the ceasefire was announced, but reports are the Lebanese president refused to take his call. Since the fighting began on February
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