In a recent speech, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem cited a Jewish thinker named Moshe Yair, claiming he had written in Yedioth Ahronoth and criticized the Lebanese negotiating delegation.
A fact-check found no trace of the writer or the alleged article in Israeli media. The quoted text instead appears on Arabic websites close to Hezbollah.
The incident raises a broader question: if a seemingly fabricated article can make its way into the secretary-general’s speech, what does that say about the information used to shape far more consequential political and military decisions
