{"id":6550,"date":"2024-10-05T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:02:03","slug":"6550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/10\/05\/6550\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost makes your head spin\u2014then you realize this is Iran, tying two (it has many) of its important proxies together, in a confused but real effort to release Sinwar and figure out how to replace Nasrallah.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lebanon-israel-gaza-iran-cease-fire-stops-bombing\/\">\u201cIran open to cease-fire efforts in Lebanon \u2014 if Israel stops bombing Gaza,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 10-5-24.\u00a0 BTW, this story carries the rare example of an exception within an exception to the international law humanitarian standard for not attacking non-military targets\u2014the IDF struck Hezbollah operatives at a command center inside a mosque in southern Lebanon\u2019s Bint Jbeil, within the Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital compound.\u00a0 What&#8217;s next for Hamas or Hezbollah to violate under the laws of war?\u00a0 Maybe a Red Crescent office within a school within a mosque within a hospital?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/05\/opinion\/iran-israel-benny-gantz.html\">\u201cBenny Gantz: What the World Needs to Understand About Iran,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 10-5-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran\u2019s religious leadership is devoted to exporting its fundamentalist ideology, driven by the pursuit of hegemony and captivated by the thought of its opponents\u2019 violent subjugation. I ask that other nations not make the same mistake we made and underestimate this component of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s calculus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost makes your head spin\u2014then you realize this is Iran, tying two (it has many) of its important proxies together, in a confused but real effort to release Sinwar and figure out how to replace Nasrallah.\u00a0 \u201cIran open to cease-fire efforts in Lebanon \u2014 if Israel stops bombing Gaza,\u201d Politico, 10-5-24.\u00a0 BTW, this story carries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/10\/05\/6550\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}