{"id":9207,"date":"2026-05-13T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:34","slug":"9207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/13\/9207\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you wonder whether the Regime is moving to being a normal country, as the blog has repeatedly stated is the standard, or if its leaders want to stay for their own purposes as a revolutionary state, this story gives you more of the current answer.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-895968\">\u201cJerusalem Post: Hezbollah planning to occupy Beirut, push out hopes of normalization with Israel,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 5-13-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHezbollah has created a systematic action plan to occupy Beirut in order to push out pragmatic elements, Walla learned on Tuesday. At the same time, the defense establishment is recognizing increasing pressure on Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem, who claimed that Israel is preparing for a move to take over large areas in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you wonder whether the Regime is moving to being a normal country, as the blog has repeatedly stated is the standard, or if its leaders want to stay for their own purposes as a revolutionary state, this story gives you more of the current answer.\u00a0 \u201cJerusalem Post: Hezbollah planning to occupy Beirut, push &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/05\/13\/9207\/\" 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9207","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\/9207","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=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}