This is a CBS eye on the world. Here's John Bachelor.

Welcoming my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

writing in real clear politics about a new slender book, says Peter,

Ari Shavitz, an existential war from tragedy and victory and beyond.

Might be a slender book.

It's a big thick topic.

This is about what is to be done.

We see the problem right now. Seven fronts, maybe eight fronts surrounding

Israel with no hesitation whatsoever to destroy the state. This isn't about victories on the

battlefield. This is about the end of Israel, if I understand correctly.

And Arishavitz and Peter both look at it without excuses.

Peter, a very good evening to you. The beginning of this story includes

Van Guryan, the early Prime Minister of Israel, the founding Prime Minister, and a man whose name I had not read about in many years

and it's a joy to reintroduce him to the American listenership.

Zev Jhabatinsky, who was he, what do we need to know about him? Good evening, Peter.

Good evening, Jabbatinsky was an immigrant to Europe from Eastern Europe, Russia.

He became known as a right-winged Zionist.

He was an ardent proponent of the creation of a Jewish state in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish

people.

And he had a view that emphasized that there was no likelihood that the that other people

living in this land there was no state at the time that other people living in

its land Arabs were ever going to reconcile themselves to the presence of the Jewish people.

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