{"id":10106,"date":"2012-04-20T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/road-to-damascus-looks-long-and-hard-for-u-n\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T04:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:21:25","slug":"road-to-damascus-looks-long-and-hard-for-u-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/road-to-damascus-looks-long-and-hard-for-u-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Damascus looks long and hard for U.N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.N. men, hardware move into Syria<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mission will seek maximum scope, freedom to move<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Syria likely to make their life difficult<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Truce monitors may be thin end of U.N. wedge<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Douglas Hamilton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT, April 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Four military transport planes<br \/>\nflew over the Mediterranean into Beirut this week from bases in<br \/>\nBrindisi and Prague, carrying the first hardware for a U.N.<br \/>\npeacekeeping mission in Syria whose ultimate outcome is<br \/>\nunforeseeable.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How and when the operation might end is a question the world<br \/>\nbody may have to grapple with for some time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The planes&#8217; cargo of 10 4x4s in the white paintwork of the<br \/>\nUnited Nations, familiar on former battlefields the world over,<br \/>\nwas destined for an unarmed contingent of 30 ceasefire monitors<br \/>\nwhich will expand over the coming weeks to 300 observers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From Beirut, it is a 90-minute drive over the mountains into<br \/>\nLebanon&#8217;s green Bekaa Valley and on by road to Damascus, a name<br \/>\nredolent of fiery Arab nationalism and now the prize in a<br \/>\nrevolution impossible to predict.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* U.N. men, hardware move into Syria * Mission will seek maximum scope, freedom to move * Syria likely to make their life difficult * Truce monitors may be thin end of U.N. wedge By Douglas Hamilton BEIRUT, April 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Four military transport planes flew over the Mediterranean into Beirut this week from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}