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Netanyahu’s Israel grapples with Trump-Iran deal as details remain unclear
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TEL AVIV, Israel: Reactions in Israel to the Memorandum of Understanding reached by President Donald Trump and Iran on Sunday have been a mix of wait-and-see-the details and outright criticism.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council confirmed on Sunday that Tehran and Washington had finalized a memorandum of understanding ending the war after months of negotiations. In a statement, the council said all military operations across multiple fronts, including in Lebanon, would cease «immediately and permanently.»
Talks on a comprehensive final agreement will reportedly begin only after both sides have implemented their obligations under the framework and are expected to continue for up to 60 days.
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President Donald Trump listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem on Oct. 13, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to comment, on Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz, held back from directly criticizing the deal but said that the IDF would not withdraw from southern Lebanon, warning that if Iran attacks Israel in response to the fighting against Hezbollah, «we will strike it with full force.»
He said, «The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, without any time limit, to protect the border and Israeli communities against jihadist elements.»
Katz described the security zones as «among the IDF’s greatest achievements» in the multi-front war since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, adding that Israel therefore opposes an IDF withdrawal from Lebanon despite all the pressures that will still come.
Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had conveyed these positions to U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior American officials, including U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
«We will not compromise on Israel’s security interests and the protection of our citizens,» he concluded.
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President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Iran following an Israeli strike in Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026. (@WhiteHouse/X)
Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and former chief of the research division in the Israel Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate, told Fox News Digital that the details of the agreement remain sketchy.
«There was a debate within the Iranian leadership over whether to accept the deal,» he said. «It appears that the information we are hearing is coming from those who opposed it. Maybe they are right, maybe they are wrong, but it raises major concerns in Israel. If this is the deal, it is a disaster. If one listens to President Trump, the deal is probably something different.»
Kuperwasser defined a «good deal» as one in which Iran gives up all components of its nuclear program, grants access to enriched uranium and establishes a robust monitoring system capable of reaching anywhere at any time, including military facilities likely being used for atomic purposes. He added that such an agreement should also prohibit production of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight on March 10 to 11, 2026. (Fadel itani / AFP via Getty Images)
«Lebanon’s fate is a matter to be discussed between Washington, Jerusalem, and Beirut,» Kuperwasser said. «Iran is not a party to those talks and should not be according to the Lebanese government. If Lebanon is to be part of a deal with Iran, it means Tehran has a say in Lebanese matters.»
Kuperwasser noted that Israel has lived under the shadow of Iran’s nuclear program since 1998, while noting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is uniquely positioned to assess the issue given his decades of involvement. He said it remains unclear whether Netanyahu is satisfied with the outcome or what his final assessment will be.
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«The emerging agreement achieves none of Israel’s war goals. The regime survives, the missile program exists, and Iran can rebuild its nuclear program. This is a complete failure by Netanyahu, and in the process, he is turning us into a client state that takes orders about its national security,» he wrote.
A motorist rides past a banner featuring images of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba Khamenei along a street in Tehran on April 15, 2026. (AFP/Getty Images)
On March 19, Prime Minister Netanyahu outlined three war objectives for the U.S.-Israel joint operation against Iran: «One, removing the nuclear threat. Second, removing the ballistic missile threat and removing both of these threats before they’re buried deep underground and become immune from aerial attack. And third, this means creating the conditions for the Iranian people to grasp their freedom, to control their destiny,» the premier stated at the time.
Dr Meir Javedanfar, Iran lecturer at Reichman University, told Fox News Digital that Israel’s most immediate concern regarding the deal is the clause dealing with Lebanon.
«There is genuine concern that this could tie Israel’s hands,» he said. «An additional concern is that Hezbollah could use this clause to regroup and strengthen its armed forces and positions along the border with Israel.»
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Javedanfar said it is too early to assess whether the deal would leave Israel in a significantly stronger position than the 2015 Obama-era nuclear agreement, citing the fate of Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium and its atomic infrastructure.
«Will Iran be allowed to continue enriching uranium on its soil? If yes, at what percentage? And how will the international community oversee Iran’s nuclear program? What kind of inspection program will they have? How intrusive will they be?» he added.
The Israel Defense Forces said its troops located and destroyed a Hezbollah underground command center with infrastructure about 8 meters below ground in South Lebanon. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)
Israel’s controversial National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday insisted that the MOU does not bind the Jewish state. «Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation,» he tweeted, adding that Jerusalem’s duty is to its citizens, its soldiers and the Jewish people.»
He stated, «My position is clear: we are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way,» he said, adding that while Israelis «love» the United States and «are grateful» to Trump, «the State of Israel is not a banana republic.»
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On Friday, Netanyahu’s office stated that «Even though Israel is not a party to the memorandum of understanding, the Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for President Trump’s commitment that the final agreement at the conclusion of negotiations will include the removal of enriched material, the dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, and the cessation of Iran’s support for its terrorist proxies in the region.»
President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 29, 2025, to discuss Iran tensions and the Gaza peace plan. (Israel Government Press Office)
Quoting the prime minister, the statement added that «As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel – Iran will not have nuclear weapons. President Trump and I are in full agreement on this issue. For over 30 years, I have been at the forefront of the international struggle against Iran’s nuclear program. Were it not for this struggle, Iran would have long ago possessed atomic bombs to destroy Israel. Iran is working to destroy the Jewish state, and I am dedicating my life to preventing them from doing so. As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel, this will not happen.»
Netanyahu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment and referred Fox News Digital to his statement on Friday.
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History promotes ‘extreme political activism,’ WH report alleges
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A sweeping new White House report concluded that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) has become a taxpayer-backed institution of «ideological capture» and «extreme political activism.»
«The report concludes that the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic,» the White House Domestic Policy Council wrote in its July 4 report following up on President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order. «By the intention and at the direction of current Museum and Smithsonian leadership, NMAH has become subject to institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology that is fundamentally opposed to telling the noble, honest story of the great country we know and love.»
According to the 162-page «Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History» report, delivered on America’s 250th birthday, NMAH treats the American story as a political tool rather than a shared national inheritance.
«At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, visitors young and old should encounter the story of the United States told with honesty, seriousness, and pride,» the report’s executive summary began. «In particular, it should help the American people understand where America came from, what makes it distinctive, and why it is worth preserving.»
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National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig appears with former first lady Jill Biden and Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch during the presentation of Biden’s 2021 inaugural dresses at the Smithsonian on Jan. 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)
Instead, the museum has moved «away from straightforward historical education and scholarship» and toward activism, the report found.
«Anthea Hartig, NMAH’s director since 2019, has explicitly stated that she sees history as a ‘prime tool of social justice’ and one of her roles as connecting ‘research and scholarship to activism and advocacy,’» the summary noted.
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Crowdgoers to President Donald Trump’s Salute to America on Saturday night huddle took cover with the National Guard in Smithsonian museums after being evacuated of The Great American State Fair along the National Mall due to severe weather. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld)
«Hartig has also stated that ‘we work to reframe the traditional celebratory narrative of U.S. history for visitors.’ She claims to have had a personal head start ‘propped up as I was and I am by the cushions of whiteness and the pillows of the bourgeoisie,’» the report said. «These are not the words of an objective historian, but rather those of an activist advancing an ideological agenda contradictory to the Museum’s founding purpose of fostering patriotism.»
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is being called out for being ‘ideologically captured’ and presenting woke revisionist history on the weekend of America’s 250th birthday. (Kevin Carter)
The report made five key conclusions about the museum:
- It attempted to «subvert» America’s founding and cancel America’s founders, with only mentioning them in the context of ties to slavery.
- It «‘problematized’ the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.»
- It changed the words to loaded modern political activist terms and not ones from history.
- It «abandoned historical scholarship for political activism.»
- It failed «obligations» to American people.
«One of the most significant findings in this report concerns what is missing,» the report stated. «A visitor to the Museum today will find no major exhibit dedicated to America’s Founding era, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other Founding Fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, or major moments of the American Revolution, such as Washington’s crossing of the Delaware.
«Instead, visitors will find Founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, introduced chiefly through their connection to slavery while their decisive roles in building the Republic and their anti-slavery efforts are minimized or ignored.»
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The NMAH presented revisionist history, using terms that exist now but not then, including «a popular term-of-art to ‘Critical Social Justice,’» the report found.
«The Museum is not merely neglecting America’s central story,» it stated. «It is intentionally withholding and subverting it.»
Noted was the political revision of «its mission statement under current leadership, which replaced the phrases ‘infinite richness’ and ‘American history’ with language about empowering people to create ‘a more just and compassionate future’ by exploring ‘the complexity of our past.’»
«The Museum has shifted from scholarship to activism,» the report read, «pointing to Museum leadership’s own public statements tying ‘research and scholarship to activism and advocacy,’ dismantling inherited narratives, using history as a ‘prime tool of social justice,’ calling for American history to be ‘reframed,’ and describing museum work in terms of ‘reparations,’ ‘restorative history,’ ‘systemic intervention, ‘decolonization, ‘social justice.’»
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The report also criticizes the museum’s approach to race, immigration, gender and sexuality, alleging that exhibits and programming have been shaped by modern activist priorities rather than neutral historical scholarship.
The Smithsonian Institution receives more than $1 billion annually in taxpayer support and its ideology does not comport with Trump’s executive order and initiatives to remove political influence in government entities, according to the Domestic Policy Council.
«As this report shows, confirmed in the words of Museum leadership, this ideological capture has moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country,» it wrote.
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Beijing exige a las empresas chinas en el extranjero a cumplir sus leyes por sobre las normativas de cada país
El largo brazo de la ley china tiene tantos miles de kilómetros que resulta imposible de medir. El Decreto N° 835 -“Reglamento de la República Popular China sobre la Lucha contra la Jurisdicción Extraterritorial Injustificada de Estados Extranjeros”- es un ejemplo de este nuevo paradigma legal que impone el régimen comandado por Xi Jinping para ciudadanos, empresas e instituciones chinas radicadas en el extranjero.
Hace pocos días, Infobae publicó la entrada en vigor de una ley que restringía la libertad de conciencia de sus ciudadanos no ya dentro de su territorio sino también fronteras afuera. Se trataba de la “Ley de Promoción de la Unidad y el Progreso Étnico” que comprime a la mínima expresión las etnias menos representativas del país priorizando una “unidad nacional” cuyos criterios quedan en consideración del Partido Comunista Chino (PCC). Estertores de la Gran Revolución Cultural Proletaria de 1966 donde se resaltaba la figura de Mao Tse-Tung. Ahora, el objetivo es resaltar el pensamiento de Xi y del PCC. Esa purga terminó con la vida de millones de personas.
Pero el Decreto N° 835 no busca (únicamente) perseguir la conciencia de sus ciudadanos radicados en el extranjero, sino obligarlas a dirimir un dilema legal que hasta ahora no contemplaban: cumplir las leyes de los países donde son residentes o circunscribirse a las normas del régimen de Beijing. Este intríngulis procesal coloca a una empresa, una institución o un simple inmigrante chino en una situación en la que se verá atrapado entre dos obligaciones legales incompatibles.
El reglamento del régimen dice expresamente que China responderá a lo que denomina “jurisdicción extraterritorial injustificada”. El objetivo apunta a las sanciones, restricciones y controles impuestas por otros estados.
En su Artículo 6, el decreto establece:
“El departamento competente en materia de Estado de derecho del Consejo de Estado, conjuntamente con otros organismos competentes, llevará a cabo la identificación de las medidas de jurisdicción extraterritorial injustificada adoptadas por Estados extranjeros y podrá realizar investigaciones y consultas con las partes extranjeras, entre otras actuaciones. Las organizaciones y personas podrán proponer al citado departamento el inicio del procedimiento de identificación.
Para llevar a cabo dicha identificación se tendrán en cuenta, entre otros, los siguientes factores:
Si la medida infringe el derecho internacional y los principios fundamentales de las relaciones internacionales;
Si existe una conexión apropiada entre el acto sometido a jurisdicción extraterritorial y el Estado extranjero que pretende ejercerla;
Si la medida perjudica la soberanía, la seguridad o los intereses de desarrollo de China, o lesiona los derechos e intereses legítimos de ciudadanos u organizaciones chinas;
Cualquier otra circunstancia que deba ser considerada.
Cuando, tras el procedimiento de identificación, se determine que una medida constituye una medida de jurisdicción extraterritorial injustificada de un Estado extranjero, el departamento competente del Consejo de Estado podrá anunciar oficialmente dicha determinación. Ninguna organización ni persona podrá ejecutar ni colaborar en la ejecución de tales medidas.
Cuando, por circunstancias especiales, un ciudadano u organización chinos necesiten ejecutar o colaborar en la ejecución de dichas medidas, deberán solicitar autorización al departamento competente del Consejo de Estado, exponiendo los hechos, los fundamentos y el alcance de la actuación requerida. Una vez aprobada conforme al procedimiento de decisión del Mecanismo de Trabajo, podrán ejecutarlas únicamente dentro del ámbito expresamente autorizado».
El texto es claro. Intimidante. Cuando el régimen considere que un estado extranjero -ya sea mediante una sanción, control o restricción- pretenda ejercer su jurisdicción, ningún ciudadano podrá cumplir o colaborar en su ejecución, salvo que Beijing -mediante el Consejo de Estado– lo autorice.
Es decir, una corporación china con una filial en Brasil o un ciudadano chino dueño de un restaurante en Madrid son obligados a cumplir con determinados requisitos por una ley (brasileña o española, de acuerdo al ejemplo) que los conmina a colaborar con las autoridades locales por filtración de datos. Sin embargo, si China considera que esa normativa son “extraterritorialmente injustificadas”, esas entidades chinas comprometidas podrían recibir dos órdenes simultáneas e incompatibles: la ley local le exige cumplir; la ley china le exige no cumplir.
Pero el Decreto N° 835 es aún más ambiguo, lo que lo convierte en más riesgoso para sus emigrantes y empresas en el extranjero. El Artículo 4 afirma que el régimen podrá ejercer “jurisdicción extraterritorial” cuando exista una “conexión apropiada” con China. El problema es que ese concepto no está definido y puede abarcar indistintamente a: ciudadanos chinos, empresas, filiales, financieras, tecnología, datos. La vaguedad de su texto es lo que hace temeraria y discrecional a la ley.
El Consejo de Estado es quien tendrá plena autoridad para decidir si se aplica o no la ley local de acuerdo a cada caso. Las autoridades chinas podrán identificar las medidas extranjeras, prohibir su cumplimiento, ordenar inspecciones tanto a empresas como a particulares, imponer entrevistas, ordenar no cumplir la norma, sancionar a esas empresas, restringirle inversiones y hasta congelar sus activos.
Otro punto intimidante es el que se desprende de los Artículos 12 y 13. En ellos se obliga a las compañías a cooperar con las investigaciones y obedecer las órdenes administrativas. La negativa de esta “colaboración” podría derivar en sanciones. En ninguna línea del texto se enumeran garantías procesales comparables a las que suelen exigirse en sistemas donde un poder judicial independiente revisa plenamente la actuación de la administración.
El Artículo 14 también es contundente. Alienta a generar denuncias entre entidades que se sientan afectadas por algún “traidor” que cumpla con leyes en el extranjero. “Cuando una organización o persona ejecute o colabore en la ejecución de medidas extranjeras de jurisdicción extraterritorial injustificada, lesionando con ello los derechos e intereses legítimos de ciudadanos u organizaciones chinas, estos podrán interponer, conforme a la ley, una demanda ante los tribunales populares para solicitar el cese de la infracción y la correspondiente indemnización por los daños y perjuicios sufridos”.
Además de la persecución de sus ciudadanos, la ley podría derivar en conflictos bilaterales. La intromisión del régimen chino en cuestiones administrativas locales generarían tensión entre los países involucrados que verían cómo Beijing intenta influir en decisiones tomadas fuera de su territorio. Esta presión podría extenderse, además, a otras represalias del estado comandado por Xi Jinping contra los países que quieran cumplir sus leyes.
Esto fue lo que ocurrió en Panamá, tras el fallo de la Corte Suprema de Justicia que declaró inconstitucional el contrato de concesión portuaria otorgado a Panama Ports Company (filial de la empresa china CK Hutchison) para operar los puertos de Balboa y Cristóbal en el Canal, calificando el acuerdo de “leonino” y lesivo para los intereses del país, lo que se tradujo en un conflicto bilateral y una presión monumental de Beijing sobre la nación centroamericana. El régimen comenzó una serie de contramedidas comerciales absurdas contra empresas panameñas y exigió al gobierno de José Raúl Mulino a desatender la decisión del máximo tribunal judicial del país.
A la Corte panameña no le tembló el pulso y respondió con altura republicalos ataques desde China: “Siempre va a haber alguien a quien le guste el fallo y va a haber gente a la que no le guste, pero la garantía de los ciudadanos es que la Corte no se deje influenciar por esas opiniones o esos deseos, sino que falle correctamente luego de un análisis muy profundo que la lleve a una conclusión“, dijo la presidenta del máximo tribunal María Cristina Chen Stanziola.
El Decreto N° 835 no sólo apunta a mantener sobre sus márgenes legales a las empresas chinas, sino también actúa como una advertencia para aquellas naciones que hacen negocios con China. Delicias de una autocracia imperial.
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