{"id":9242,"date":"2026-06-01T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:40:23","slug":"9242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/01\/9242\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that any time you read \u201cHezbollah\u201d replace it with \u201cIran.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-lebanon-says-hezbollah-accepted-a-us-backed-proposal-for-reciprocal-pause-in-hostilities-with-israel\">\u201cLebanon says Hezbollah accepted a US-backed proposal for reciprocal pause in hostilities with Israel,\u201d<\/a> I24, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n<p>See what I mean?\u00a0 The U.S. is trading open hostilities in Lebanon (and Israel&#8217;s push) for advances in the Gulf.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/liveblog\/202605308417\">\u201cTrump pushes Lebanon truce to advance Iran talks,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/06\/01\/world\/iran-war-us-trump-israel-lebanon\">\u201cIran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Attacks and Israel Threatens Beirut,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the Day.\u00a0 \u201cLebanon will have to wait for change in Tehran before it can turn a page regarding Hezbollah\u2019s defiance of the Lebanese national interest,\u201d said Lina Khatib, a visiting scholar with the Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Middle East Initiative.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/01\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-hezbollah-disarm.html\">\u201cHow Lebanon\u2019s Best Chance to Disarm Hezbollah Failed,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-says-struck-iranian-drone-radar-sites-iran-claims-attack-air-base-rcna347809\">\u201cU.S. and Iran trade strikes amid talks to end war,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2l2yl7r8r2o\">\u201cIran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 6-1-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that any time you read \u201cHezbollah\u201d replace it with \u201cIran.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cLebanon says Hezbollah accepted a US-backed proposal for reciprocal pause in hostilities with Israel,\u201d I24, 6-1-26. See what I mean?\u00a0 The U.S. is trading open hostilities in Lebanon (and Israel&#8217;s push) for advances in the Gulf.\u00a0 \u201cTrump pushes Lebanon truce to advance Iran talks,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/06\/01\/9242\/\" 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-9242","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\/9242","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=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}