Israeli Minister Calls for Lebanon's Destruction, Defying US-Iran Peace Deal

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly called for all of Lebanon to 'burn' and urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to 'obliterate' the country, directly defying a US-Iran peace framework signed by President Trump that demands an immediate halt to military operations across all fronts including Lebanon. The open defiance of global powers by Israeli extremist factions — driven by messianic expectations that only an 'Armageddon'-level crisis can usher in their anticipated Messiah — signals that the region is being pulled toward the very end-times scenario described in biblical prophecy. Scripture foretells a time when all nations will be gathered against Jerusalem and the surrounding region in a final cataclysmic conflict, with Zechariah 12 warning that Jerusalem will become 'a burdensome stone for all people' in the last days.