A missionary who lives in Beirut said something that I think summarizes the “results” of the war. I don’t have permission to quote him, so I will summarize: Attitudes in Lebanon are much more polarized than before, but the issues which precipitated the war have not been resolved. Now me: The first part means that more people in Lebanon hate Israel more than ever before. The second part means that there will be another war. To say it another way, those who demanded an immediate ceasefire will get a “short-term peace,” the cost of which will be greater than the recent war. Today’s “quiet” is a false peace, a premature peace.<\/p>\n
Here’s an article<\/a> about who won the war that I essentially agree with, by a former CIA station chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A missionary who lives in Beirut said something that I think summarizes the “results” of the war. I don’t have permission to quote him, so I will summarize: Attitudes in Lebanon are much more polarized than before, but the issues which precipitated the war have not been resolved. Now me: The first part means that\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}