BIKFAYA, Lebanon \u2014 The former Lebanese president who once signed a short-lived deal with Israel ending decades of a state of war now says the time is right to try again.<\/p>\n
Amin Gemayel spoke with The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday after the first direct talks<\/a> between Lebanon<\/a> and Israel since the 1980s, as they explore what could lead to a security agreement or even the eventual normalization of relations. He is part of one of Lebanon\u2019s strongest political dynasties that founded the Christian Phalange party, which held powerful positions for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIKFAYA, Lebanon \u2014 The former Lebanese president who once signed a short-lived deal with Israel ending decades of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2371,197,1829,196,93,768,31759,81,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-89583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-international-agreements","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-military-and-defense","14":"tag-ml-lebanon-israel-former-president","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-war-and-unrest","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116489029144611545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89583","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=89583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}