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listening. Terms apply. I'm John Batchel with my colleague Jonathan Shanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

There's talk of a ceasefire in the north, Lebanon, Beirut, and along the Israeli border.

However, puzzle, Jonathan, this talk of ceased fire.

The so-called leader of Hezbollah is not an inspirational

figure. To my knowledge, he has no base of support in Hezbollah. He's a propagandist. He's also

senior figure pretty far from war fighting. So the idea of a ceasefire might please him. However, they're said to be

100,000. I don't have a number for Hezbollah in Lebanon. What is the expectation of enforcing

a ceasefire on Hezbollah, on the very bad actors who continue to barrage north of Israel? What is the discipline of Hezbollah on the very bad actors who continue to barrage north of Israel?

What is the discipline of Hezbollah after these weeks of pounding?

It's an interesting question, John.

I mean, I think that as we understand it right now,

Hezbollah understands that it is losing just about every engagement that it has had with Israel,

that they are on the losing end of this, that they're losing more fighters than the Israelis,

that they're losing more infrastructure than the Israelis,

they're losing the weapons that they've stockpiled, and their leadership obviously has been eviscerated. It is chaos within

Hisbalah's ranks. So the deal that is now being discussed, we don't know all of the terms.

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