{"id":9490,"date":"2026-07-21T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:00:24","slug":"9490","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/21\/9490\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx25wg2x26do\">\u201cUS launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for deaths of soldiers,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 7-21-26.<\/p>\n<p>Good news.\u00a0 Pilot program starts in three areas Israel backs out of in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Army becomes the only entity authorized to carry weapons there.\u00a0 We must find creative ways like this to rid Lebanon of Iran-backed Hezbollah.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/israel\/defense\/artc-israel-lebanon-begin-us-backed-security-pilot-in-southern-lebanon\">\u201cIsrael and Lebanon begin US-backed security pilot to accelerate Hezbollah&#8217;s disarmament,\u201d<\/a> I24, 7-21-26.<\/p>\n<p>Some persons claim that the closest ally of the U.S. is Israel.\u00a0 It\u2019s the UK, and has been for years.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/europe\/artc-burnham-approves-use-of-uk-bases-for-some-us-strikes-on-iran\">\u201cBurnham approves use of UK bases for some US strikes on Iran,\u201d<\/a> i24NEWS, i24NEWS, 7-21-26.<\/p>\n<p>Implications for nuclear negotiating with Iran.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-approves-landmark-nuclear-deal-with-saudi-arabia-in-big-win-for-kingdom-2ed77584\">\u201cTrump Approves Landmark Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia in Big Win for Kingdom,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 7-21-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUS launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for deaths of soldiers,\u201d BBC, 7-21-26. Good news.\u00a0 Pilot program starts in three areas Israel backs out of in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Army becomes the only entity authorized to carry weapons there.\u00a0 We must find creative ways like this to rid Lebanon of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/07\/21\/9490\/\" 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-9490","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\/9490","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=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}