{"id":7767,"date":"2015-01-24T01:33:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2015-01-24T01:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:33:29","slug":"time-for-another-israeli-war-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2015\/01\/24\/time-for-another-israeli-war-on-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for another Israeli war on Lebanon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bel\u00e9n Fern\u00e1ndez: What is clear, however, is that Israel\u2019s perennial squawking about the paramount importance of its own self-defence and security is a delusional fantasy. After all, there\u2019s no room for security in deliberately reckless provocations like yesterday\u2019s airstrike. And while the argument can be made that Hezbollah\u2019s machinations in Syria constitute a reckless provocation in themselves, this ignores the fact that the group sees the preservation of the Syrian regime as crucial in resisting Israeli geopolitical designs. Finally, let\u2019s not forget that Hezbollah\u2019s very existence is a result of provocation by Israel, which during its devastating 1982 invasion of Lebanon – in an ostensible effort to eradicate that other reaction to Israeli oppression, the Palestine Liberation Organisation – managed to sow the seeds for the rise of Hezbollah, thereby vastly expanding threats to Israel\u2019s \u201csecurity\u201d. At the end of the day, the reality is simple: the Zionist enterprise is predicated on a proliferation of insecurity in the name of security, a context that excuses eternal militarisation and attendant corporate profits along with territorial usurpation and other punitive measures against folks at home and abroad. Yesterday\u2019s activities will presumably only fortify the arrangement. As they say, there\u2019s nothing like an airstrike while the iron is hot. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bel\u00e9n Fern\u00e1ndez: What is clear, however, is that Israel\u2019s perennial squawking about the paramount importance of its own self-defence and security is a delusional fantasy. After all, there\u2019s no room for security in deliberately reckless provocations like yesterday\u2019s airstrike. And while the argument can be made that Hezbollah\u2019s machinations in Syria constitute a reckless provocation … Continue reading Time for another Israeli war on Lebanon?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}