Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has been on Fox News claiming that Christian villages in Lebanon want to be annexed by Israel.

Yes. Annexed.

Not just “Israel protects them.” Not just “they’re worried about Hezbollah.” Not just the usual security porridge ladled out in front of an American TV audience. He went further than that. He claimed some Christian villages in Lebanon had actually asked to be annexed by Israel because Israel protects them.

Protection becomes annexation. Fear becomes consent. A village under pressure becomes, somehow, a willing participant in Netanyahu’s border-redrawing routine now. And all of it delivered with the breezy confidence of a man who apparently left the names, the documents and the actual villages in his other suit.

Which is handy, isn’t it? Very convenient. A prime minister currently sitting ...