{"id":228,"date":"2006-07-12T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-07-12T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T00:01:00","slug":"lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so is it just me, or does anyone else think all hell is breaking loose lately? There&#8217;s North Korea. I&#8217;ve mentioned Mumbai. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/12\/AR2006071200262.html\">Now<\/a> it&#8217;s Israel going into Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>I hate hate hate war.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t know what else Israel&#8217;s supposed to do, if Lebanon can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t control Hezbollah. (I suppose that goes for India too, if Pakistan can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t control Lashkar-e-Toiba. Or if Lebanon <em>does<\/em> control Hezbollah but uses them as their proxy, likewise Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Toiba.) And but I was very much not a fan of Israel&#8217;s invasion of Lebanon back in 1982, when they invaded to root out and destroy the PLO. How well did that turn out?<\/p>\n<p>Like with the Infitada(s), Israel has the muscle, if it wants to use it, but if faces a whole lotta people.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah was founded to fight that invasion, too, in 1982, by the way. So if Israel destroys Hezbollah now, isn&#8217;t somebody else just going to replace them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so is it just me, or does anyone else think all hell is breaking loose lately? There&#8217;s North Korea. I&#8217;ve mentioned Mumbai. Now it&#8217;s Israel going into Lebanon. I hate hate hate war. Although I don&#8217;t know what else Israel&#8217;s supposed to do, if Lebanon can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t control Hezbollah. (I suppose that goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/lebanon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lebanon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}