{"id":484017,"date":"2026-06-09T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/484017\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:35:10","slug":"iran-lebanon-gaza-severing-israels-war-fronts-was-never-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/484017\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Lebanon, Gaza: Severing Israel&#8217;s War Fronts Was Never Going to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">In <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/haaretz-today\/2024-09-26\/ty-article\/.highlight\/why-israel-should-accept-hezbollahs-key-cease-fire-condition\/00000192-2ecc-dc91-a1df-becee6760000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 2024, I argued<\/a> that Israel should have accepted that ending the escalation with Hezbollah meant reaching a cease-fire in Gaza \u2013 because the fronts were linked, like it or not. Israel&#8217;s government did the opposite \u2013 attacked Hezbollah hard and then reached a cease-fire, while the Gaza war raged for another year. Israeli hostages, and tens of thousands more Palestinians died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September 2024, I argued that Israel should have accepted that ending the escalation with Hezbollah meant reaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157718,49,50,51,86,85,46,58195,21452,1513,88,43],"class_list":["post-484017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israel-iran","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484017","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=484017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}