"They ACTUALLY Like Each Other" - Trump ANNOUNCES 3-Week Israel–Lebanon Ceasefire Extension
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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President Trump jokes that Lebanon and Israel “actually like each other” as he announces a 3‑week ceasefire extension, and the panel debates whether this signals real progress, Iran’s grip on Lebanon, and what “victory” and peace in the region could realistically look like.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump comes out, Rob, do you have this with the Lebanon and Israel? Yes. He comes out saying Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be extended by three weeks, okay, by three weeks. And he said, maybe they even like each other, Rob. Is this a clip you were talking about? Yes, sir. Go for it. Well, thank you very much. And I'm told this is a rather historic meeting because these countries have been bordering each other for many, |
| 0:23.3 | many years and it doesn't happen much, although they like each other. I found that out today, |
| 0:28.8 | and I've sort of heard about that. They actually like each other, Lebanon and Israel. And we had a |
| 0:34.9 | great meeting with the very high officials of Lebanon and very high officials of Israel. |
| 0:40.3 | And we think that the president of Lebanon and the Prime Minister of Israel over the next couple of weeks will be coming here. |
| 0:48.3 | They've agreed to an additional three weeks of, I guess, no firing ceasefire. No more firing. Let's see. We hope that |
| 0:57.7 | happens. It's not going to happen between them, but they do have Hezbollah to think about. |
| 1:04.3 | Okay. So, Alon, what do you stand with this? I think Trump's hilarious, number one, saying that |
| 1:08.9 | they like each other. Look, do I think in the future that there's a possibility that Lebanon, once you, you know, have a decay of Hezbollah, that they form better relations with Israel. I would love for that to happen. But not right now. So I think the, you know, look, I think it shows Trump has actual tremendous influence in the region over Israel. You know, as much as people say, Israel's controlling the United States. Here you have an example where once again, Trump pushed for Israel to do something, and they listened, they abided. And I think deep down Trump is, you know, this is going to sound weird. Trump came in hoping to create more stability and peace in the region. I think in his own weird way, he's actually |
| 1:45.0 | accomplishing it. I would really like to see more stability between Lebanon and Israel. Tom. |
| 1:49.4 | Well, B.B. Net now, who's never been the easiest guy for U.S. presidents to deal with at all. |
| 1:55.8 | And you've seen, you've heard things from Trump, you know, hey, we liked a couple of the guys, |
| 2:00.5 | but they killed |
| 2:01.4 | him, sort of signaling there is maybe not perfect alignment there with the battle plans |
| 2:06.6 | and stuff. And I think what he's talking about here, I think behind closed doors, you know, |
| 2:12.9 | some diplomacy got done, and I think they got some progress here because if it is truly a three |
| 2:18.7 | weeks ceasefire to put some accords in place that's good for the innocent citizens that are all |
| 2:25.1 | over Lebanon, the Christian citizens that are there that have nobody representing them. |
| 2:28.9 | You know, rockets in the morning go to the south toward Israel, rockets in the afternoon go to the |
| 2:33.5 | north toward Lebanon and I'm underneath both of them, rockets in the afternoon, go to the north toward Lebanon, |
| 2:34.9 | and I'm underneath both of them. So I think some diplomacy got done, and I think it's kind of |
| 2:40.6 | funny, do you know what I'm saying? They've been neighbors for many years. Yeah, they've always |
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