{"id":226744,"date":"2026-07-28T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/226744\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:57:13","slug":"whether-lebanon-or-gaza-who-tells-the-government-no-when-the-army-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/226744\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether Lebanon or Gaza, Who Tells the Government &#8216;No&#8217; When the Army Won&#8217;t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The difference between the two wars shows that not only has the balance of power between the government and the IDF changed \u2013 the ability to restrain military force has been completely eroded<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The 20th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War offers a good opportunity to make a comparison between it and the war in Gaza. In both cases, the decision to go to war was made hastily, without considering alternatives, formulating an exit strategy or setting goals that were tested for their feasibility. Nevertheless, there is a critical difference between them, and that is that the army&#8217;s ability to restrain the politicians has weakened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The difference between the two wars shows that not only has the balance of power between the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[4080,1046,16707,1411,100,423,7401,93,20207],"class_list":["post-226744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-ehud-olmert","tag-eyal-zamir","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-lebanon","tag-second-lebanon-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116999844267392450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226744","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=226744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}