{"id":7125,"date":"2026-06-07T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/does-israel-really-think-it-can-get-rid-of-hezbollah-in-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:36:14","slug":"does-israel-really-think-it-can-get-rid-of-hezbollah-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/does-israel-really-think-it-can-get-rid-of-hezbollah-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Israel really think it can get rid of Hezbollah in Lebanon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to assume that \u2018anything positive\u2019 for Lebanon can come from its talks with Israel, argues analyst Imad Harb.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Despite brokering a ceasefire on paper, the United States is not standing in the way of Israel\u2019s war on Lebanon, argues Imad Harb, senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Harb tells host Steve Clemons that Hezbollah is an excuse for Israel to conduct a land grab in Lebanon, similar to what it\u2019s doing in Gaza, the West Bank and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Pushing the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah \u201cmeans civil war in Lebanon\u201d, especially if Israel is allowed to occupy large swaths of Lebanese territory, says Harb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to assume that \u2018anything positive\u2019 for Lebanon can come from its talks with Israel, argues analyst Imad Harb. Despite brokering a ceasefire on paper, the United States is not standing in the way of Israel\u2019s war on Lebanon, argues Imad Harb, senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC. Harb tells host Steve &#8230; <a title=\"Does Israel really think it can get rid of Hezbollah in Lebanon?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/does-israel-really-think-it-can-get-rid-of-hezbollah-in-lebanon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does Israel really think it can get rid of Hezbollah in Lebanon?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}