{"id":342895,"date":"2026-03-17T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/342895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:20:15","slug":"how-an-israeli-ground-invasion-of-lebanon-could-unfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/342895\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Israeli Ground Invasion of Lebanon Could Unfold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">MY: The Lebanese army and state has a major problem, because, as I said, if today, the Israeli plan is to hold on to land, unless the Lebanese army disarms Hezbollah, this creates a Catch-22 for the state. If they try to disarm Hezbollah, it can create domestic conflict, which the army doesn&#8217;t want to provoke, effectively a civil war. But if it doesn&#8217;t act, \u201cIsrael would then basically say, Okay, it&#8217;s up to you. We will keep the occupied territories.\u201d So, that&#8217;s, I think it&#8217;s a terrible choice for the Lebanese army and for the Lebanese state. I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re going to decide.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">FI: The Lebanese Army leadership is not committed to fighting or disarming Hezbollah, despite government orders to do so, and unable to confront Israel. The government can give orders but if they are not followed, they\u2019re pointless. That said the Lebanese Army\u2019s entry into this war against Hezbollah would very much complicate the latter\u2019s existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MY: The Lebanese army and state has a major problem, because, as I said, if today, the Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,87,46,18044,88,43],"class_list":["post-342895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-gaza-conflict","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}