{"id":417564,"date":"2026-04-30T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:47:12","slug":"israels-exhausted-military-is-again-mired-in-lebanon-without-purpose-or-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417564\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Exhausted Military Is Again Mired in Lebanon Without Purpose or End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">What&#8217;s happening with the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon is grim. The public needs to know the full picture. I&#8217;m writing this op-ed with a heavy heart. It&#8217;s based on conversations with commanders, soldiers and combat supporters, a perusal of IDF documents and media reports (regrettably, mainly in Haaretz stories; most media outlets don&#8217;t pay serious attention to the war&#8217;s failures or the army&#8217;s weak points). The bottom line is reminiscent of the long months of bloodletting in the Gaza Strip, and, to some extent, of the infamously futile &#8220;security zone&#8221; in Lebanon, whose necessity was challenged by only a few for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening with the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon is grim. The public needs to know the full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157718,86,1031,85,46,88,43],"class_list":["post-417564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417564","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=417564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}