{"id":1212,"date":"2026-04-17T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:12:00","slug":"netanyahu-for-lebanon-one-hand-holds-a-gun-the-other-tends-towards-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu for Lebanon: One hand holds a gun, the other tends towards peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road to peace with <b>Lebanon<\/b> is long, &#8220;but we have begun,&#8221; Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> said, referring to the <b>ceasefire<\/b> in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>One hand holds a gun, the other tends toward peace<\/b>,&#8221; <b>Netanyahu<\/b> said in a videotaped statement, defending his decision to accept a <b>10-day ceasefire with Lebanon<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>At the request of <b>US President Donald Trump<\/b>, <b>Netanyahu<\/b> says, &#8220;we are providing an opportunity to advance a <b>combined diplomatic and military solution with the Lebanese government<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>But the fight against Hezbollah is not over<\/b>, <b>Netanyahu<\/b> insists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>I will say frankly, we haven&#8217;t finished the job<\/b>,&#8221; <b>Netanyahu<\/b> continues. &#8220;<b>There are things we plan to do about the residual threat<\/b> from rockets and the threat from drones, which I won&#8217;t go into detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israel <b>is also working on &#8220;<b>dismantling<\/b>&#8221; <b>Hezbollah<\/b>, he says, &#8220;<b>but that won&#8217;t be achieved tomorrow. It requires continued effort, patience and careful navigation of the diplomatic arena<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road to peace with Lebanon is long, &#8220;but we have begun,&#8221; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, referring to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}