{"id":517493,"date":"2026-06-30T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:05:08","slug":"israel-lebanon-deal-may-entrench-stalemate-rather-than-end-war-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517493\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Lebanon deal may entrench stalemate rather than end war, analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2013 A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel\u2019s underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel\u2019s pullout from southern Lebanon to the Iran-aligned group\u2019s disarmament, a condition regional analysts and politicians say is unattainable.<\/p>\n<p>At its core is a bargain few see as workable: Hezbollah has flatly rejected disarmament, and no Lebanese government has the power to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p>With Hezbollah unlikely to disarm, analysts say Israel has political cover to keep \u200ban open-ended military presence in southern Lebanon, which it invaded after Hezbollah fired at Israel on March 2 in solidarity with Tehran over the war in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beirut \u2013 A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel\u2019s underlying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,86,85,87,46,61,88,47,43],"class_list":["post-517493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517493","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=517493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}