78: PREVIEW. Hezbollah Rearming. Jonathan Schanzer reports troubling news that Hezbollah is rearming in Lebanon quicker than anticipated. The Syrian border is porous, allowing Iran to successfully move weapons faster than Israelis were aware of. The Israeli
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague, Jonathan Shanzer, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, about Hezbollah, Lebanon, rearming, quicker than expected, quicker than anticipated. What is to be done? |
| 0:16.3 | This is Jonathan pointing to a problem that's growing very fast, that vast number of recruits in Lebanon |
| 0:23.7 | are awakening. Much more of this tonight. Well, John, actually, we're hearing some troubling |
| 0:31.5 | news out of Lebanon right now, more troubling than I would have expected. The first piece of news is that the Syrian border is more porous than we had previously heard, |
| 0:44.0 | that Iran is having more success than previously reported in bringing over weapons to rearm |
| 0:51.2 | his bala. |
| 0:51.9 | They're moving weapons in faster than the Israelis were previously |
| 0:55.9 | aware of, and that's, I think, why we're seeing some of these strikes that are taking place. |
| 1:01.9 | The Israelis are getting the intelligence, and they are taking action in coordination with the |
| 1:06.5 | United States and the Lebanese government, but that doesn't make it any more comfortable to |
| 1:11.8 | hear the fact that Hezbollah, after a year of getting crushed by the Israelis, are making some |
| 1:17.4 | progress in re-arming. |
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