{"id":2007,"date":"2006-12-01T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/fruits-of-olmerts-lebanon-fiasco-possible-lebanon-coup-would-lead-to-resumption-of-hostilities\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T09:17:25","slug":"fruits-of-olmerts-lebanon-fiasco-possible-lebanon-coup-would-lead-to-resumption-of-hostilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/fruits-of-olmerts-lebanon-fiasco-possible-lebanon-coup-would-lead-to-resumption-of-hostilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruits of Olmert&#8217;s Lebanon Fiasco: Possible Lebanon Coup Would Lead to Resumption of Hostilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1162378519154&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Israel: Hizbullah Coup Could Oust UNIFIL,  By Yaakov Katz<\/strong><\/a>    (Jerusalem Post)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Israeli defense officials expressed extreme concern Thursday over Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah&#8217;s call for a massive protest Friday to bring down the Lebanese government, warning that UNIFIL might be expelled from Lebanon if Prime Minister Fuad Saniora were forced to leave office.<\/p>\n<p>Hizbullah and its allies in the parliamentary opposition have called for mass demonstrations to begin Friday in downtown Beirut with the aim of bringing down Saniora&#8217;s anti-Syrian coalition.<\/p>\n<p>If the shaky government falls, the Israeli defense officials warned, UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army might be forced from southern Lebanon, which, along with the Bekaa Valley, is Hizbullah&#8217;s home ground. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNIFIL is not the best, but it has been effective so far in preventing Hizbullah from returning to the border,&#8221; a high-ranking defense official told The Jerusalem Post Thursday. &#8220;If UNIFIL is kicked out of Lebanon, we could easily find ourselves back in the same situation we were in before the war this past summer, or even back at war.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel: Hizbullah Coup Could Oust UNIFIL, By Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post) Excerpts; Israeli defense officials expressed extreme concern Thursday over Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah&#8217;s call for a massive protest Friday to bring down the Lebanese government, warning that UNIFIL might be expelled from Lebanon if Prime Minister Fuad Saniora were forced to leave office. Hizbullah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}