{"podcast":{"title":"History As It Happens","slug":"history-as-it-happens-3075146","podcast_index_feed_id":3075146,"rss_url":"https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/4/d/1/44d17a1c5092053027a2322813b393ee/Martin_Square_241008.png","author":"Martin Di Caro","episode_count":589,"summary":"Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. History As It Happens features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. Subscribe for ad-free episodes, early access, and bonus content. https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T08:17:22.303405+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146"},"episode":{"title":"Regime Change: Israel in Lebanon 1982","slug":"regime-change-israel-in-lebanon-1982","published_at":"2026-03-27T10:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146/regime-change-israel-in-lebanon-1982","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146","url":"https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/regime-change-israel-in-lebanon-1982","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyasithappens/HH-FREE-535-260327.mp3?dest-id=2566565","summary":"Subscribe now for early access, ad-free listening, and bonus content! HAIH Premium subscribers got this episode (with no ads!) on Thursday, March 26. Israel is at war in Lebanon again, displacing a million Lebanese from their homes in the southern part of the country, its latest attempt to disarm Hezbollah. This new invasion continues a long pattern stretching back decades, where Israel tries and fails to create a Lebanon it can control. In 1982, that meant picking the country's president amid a destructive civil war. It almost worked — until an assassin's bomb killed Bashir Gemayel. Our guest is historian Ahron Bregman. Ahron Bregman is a historian at King's College London and the author of Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947 . Recommended reading: Lebanon's Negations by Loubna El-Amine (New York Review)","meta_description":"Subscribe now for early access, ad-free listening, and bonus content! HAIH Premium subscribers got this episode (with no ads!) on Thursday, March 26. Isra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3680,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-as-it-happens-3075146/episodes/regime-change-israel-in-lebanon-1982/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146/regime-change-israel-in-lebanon-1982.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}