{"id":802902,"date":"2026-05-17T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:17:15","slug":"beirut-fears-that-israel-is-eyeing-a-gaza-model-for-south-lebanon-as-iran-aims-to-wreck-progress-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802902\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut Fears That Israel Is Eyeing a &#8216;Gaza Model&#8217; for South Lebanon \u2013 as Iran Aims to Wreck Progress, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The 45-day extension of the Israeli-Lebanese cease-fire responds to Beirut&#8217;s condition for continuing the political-military talks but doesn&#8217;t guarantee a solution to the underlying problems. It amounts to a prolonging of the war under Donald Trump&#8217;s restrictions: Israel is barred from bombing Beirut and the Bekaa Valley but remains free to strike Hezbollah in the south, raze villages, displace residents and hunker down as a garrison force in an ever-expanding &#8220;security zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 45-day extension of the Israeli-Lebanese cease-fire responds to Beirut&#8217;s condition for continuing the political-military talks but doesn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":802903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[266635,4783,83,99,13192,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-802902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2026-israel-iran-war","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}