{"id":402351,"date":"2026-04-20T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:47:09","slug":"state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402351\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776721629_738_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/8267x5511+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2Fc7%2F462d44ee4297b0f1bfa4b0e4f04e%2F89694052-7147-44eb-80f3-637e2b29aeec.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Mahmoud Ghadboun retrieves some of his belongings from a building destroyed in a previous Israeli airstrike, during a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel in the Hosh neighborhood of Tyre, southern Lebanon, on Sunday, April 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                    Bilal Hussein\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Bilal Hussein\/AP<\/p>\n<p>As the end of a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran approaches, a separate but intertwined conflict may have an improved chance at peace.  Israel and Lebanon have had a fraught relationship for decades.  The most recent fighting flared up not long after the war in Iran began.  It involves the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah.  Now there is a temporary ceasefire and the two nations are engaging in direct negotiations.  There is hope for a peaceful resolution, but they have been here before.  In this episode we learn about the history behind this moment with a journalist and author how has covered the Middle East for over 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Ghadboun retrieves some of his belongings from a building destroyed in a previous Israeli airstrike, during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-402351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402351","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=402351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}