{"id":531190,"date":"2026-07-08T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531190\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:16:13","slug":"lebanons-president-i-chose-negotiations-with-israel-because-we-were-being-led-to-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531190\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s President: I Chose Negotiations With Israel Because We Were Being Led to th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese President Joseph Aoun explained in a meeting why he agreed to negotiations with Israel. &#8220;I chose negotiations because I could not stand by as an observer while my country is being led to the abyss to serve the interests of another state,&#8221; he said. According to him, &#8220;I had to take a step that could stop the Israeli war machine, reduce the loss of lives and villages and ultimately end the occupation. This step is supported by the majority of Lebanese, including the Shiite community, which has paid the heaviest price of the wars in the south.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese President Joseph Aoun explained in a meeting why he agreed to negotiations with Israel. &#8220;I chose negotiations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-531190","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\/531190","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=531190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}