{"id":9110,"date":"2026-04-15T05:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:16:16","slug":"9110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/04\/15\/9110\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t stress enough how big a deal this is for the Middle East.\u00a0 The Iran War (which has been with us since 1979) may bring to an end Iran\u2019s control over Syria (already mainly accomplished now) and Syria\u2019s control over Lebanon (adios Mr. Assasd) and Iran\u2019s\/Hezbollah\u2019s control over Lebanon.\u00a0 Thank you Mr. President.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-trump-israeli-and-lebanese-leaders-will-speak-for-the-first-time-in-34-years-live-blog\">\u201cTrump: Israeli and Lebanese leaders will speak for the first time in 34 years | LIVE BLOG,\u201d<\/a> i24, 4-15-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cLebanese President Aoun: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is the \u2018natural starting point\u2019 to begin direct negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t stress enough how big a deal this is for the Middle East.\u00a0 The Iran War (which has been with us since 1979) may bring to an end Iran\u2019s control over Syria (already mainly accomplished now) and Syria\u2019s control over Lebanon (adios Mr. Assasd) and Iran\u2019s\/Hezbollah\u2019s control over Lebanon.\u00a0 Thank you Mr. President.\u00a0 \u201cTrump: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/04\/15\/9110\/\" 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-9110","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\/9110","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=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}