{"id":1895,"date":"2020-01-05T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2020-01-05T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:49:19","slug":"is-mr-nasrallah-leader-of-the-lebanese-hezbollah-more-catholic-than-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/01\/05\/is-mr-nasrallah-leader-of-the-lebanese-hezbollah-more-catholic-than-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mr. Nasrallah, leader of the (Lebanese) Hezbollah, more catholic than the pope?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PopePost.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1896\" width=\"445\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PopePost.jpg 741w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PopePost-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 85vw, 445px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is always sad to see the ghost of war overshadowing the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is even sadder (and quite worrisome) to see Lebanon, once again, at\nrisk of being held hostage in a regional saga, this time between the USA and\nIran. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi can only imagine the sorrow of Mr. Nasrallah who lost a mentor and a\nboss\u2026 but why should the picture of a foreigner (i.e., Iranian) general be put\non a billboard on the road to\/from the airport of another sovereign country? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, this is Beirut, not Tehran. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tempo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1897\" width=\"505\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tempo.jpg 331w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tempo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tempo-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px\" \/><figcaption> Pictures taken in Beirut (<em>Naharnet<\/em>, January 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always sad to see the ghost of war overshadowing the Middle East. It is even sadder (and quite worrisome) to see Lebanon, once again, at risk of being held hostage in a regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}