I'm John Batchezing with my colleague Jonathan Shanzer, Executive Director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

The IDF is moving in order to take up positions that secure the north of Israel.

Already the threat was from Hizbola in southern Lebanon.

Now the Golan Heights, Mount Herman, and the DMZ,

and maybe beyond the DMC. Jonathan and I have both stood on the Golan Heights and looked to see

the smoke of Damascus. It's that close. And there is no guarantee that what is going on in

Damascus right now is not jihadism writ large.

Therefore, the Israelis is moving very quickly on the ground.

And also there are reports from Jerusalem about the destruction of the Syrian Navy complete,

the destruction of the Syrian Air Force complete, and a pounding,

continued pounding of known and suspected chemical weapons sites and sites of ballistic missiles.

Have I missed anything, Jonathan?

The entire destruction of the Syrian Air Force is, I think, the thing that has jumped out

at me this morning.

That was not something that I would have predicted a week ago.

But, you know, I think it makes sense that the Israelis would not want any of those sequoys

or some of those Russian-made choppers to fall into the wrong hands.

A Sunni-jihadi army with those kinds of platforms is certainly not something that we want to

see, nor do we want to see chemical weapons in the hands of these Sunni jihadis.

We didn't want to see them in the hands of the Assad regime, for that matter.

But the Israelis in the United States had, I suppose, come to terms with whatever Assad

had sustained.

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