{"id":76,"date":"2009-10-17T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onemideast.org\/room\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-05-20T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:16:44","slug":"syrias-ongoing-interference-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Syria continues to interfere in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syria has always interfered in the affairs of the sovereign state of Lebanon. It has occupied Lebanon for decades, and has advanced its own financial and political interests as occupier. Syria uses Lebanon, to this day, as a proxy in its ongoing battle with Israel. It has always interfered in the political makeup of Lebanon, often at the highest levels, and has the ability to bring about instability at any moment. Not to mention Syria&#8217;s alleged role in the assassination of Rafik al Hariri.<\/p>\n<p>How can Israel trust such a &#8220;partner&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria has always interfered in the affairs of the sovereign state of Lebanon. It has occupied Lebanon for decades, and has advanced its own financial and political interests as occupier. Syria uses Lebanon, to this day, as a proxy in its ongoing battle with Israel. It has always interfered in the political makeup of Lebanon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}