{"id":140532,"date":"2026-06-01T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/140532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:57:11","slug":"a-stupid-futile-waste-of-lives-the-empty-triumph-of-israels-latest-conquest-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/140532\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Stupid, Futile Waste of Lives&#8217;: The Empty Triumph of Israel&#8217;s Latest Conquest in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">&#8216;Beaufort is in our hands!&#8217; a government minister exulted, when Israel captured a Crusader fortress it once occupied for 18 years. For Joseph Cedar, who directed an Oscar-nominated film about the last days of the IDF outpost there, it is a cursed mountain \u2013 but for Netanyahu, it is an opportunity to rewrite history<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">&#8220;You can feel fresh mountain air here. Divine,&#8221; rhapsodized Menachem Begin to Ariel Sharon, his defense minister, as the then-prime minister stood beneath the newly conquered Beaufort fortress in southern Lebanon in June 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beaufort is in our hands!&#8217; a government minister exulted, when Israel captured a Crusader fortress it once occupied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[2490,41113,41,100,423,37,29660,93,20207],"class_list":["post-140532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-ariel-sharon","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israeli-movies","tag-lebanon","tag-second-lebanon-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116675441126924226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}