I'm John Batchel with my colleague Bill Radio of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

and our colleague David Diyud of FDD reporting on Hezbo.

We moved to the Houthis, who are part of the octopus attacking Israel.

They are relentless in firing once a day or twice a day towards Israel.

The significant change over these last days is that the Trump administration has made them a target

of an air campaign. And now we have information that the IRGC officers who've been assisting the Houthis

have left Yemen. David, what is your assessment of the Houthi threat? Is it minimal compared

to what it was or do we still regard them as dangerous to the state of Israel?

Look, I think they're going to be dangerous for a very long time.

As much as we've seen an intensification of the campaign against the Ruthies, an organization

like this, again, is that years to develop. It's not going to be taken out, even with an

intensified air campaign immediately. That doesn't mean that the air campaign won't be effective

over time,

but we're going to have to give it time. So I don't think we should expect immediate results,

but I think it's a positive move by the Trump administration to intensify its posture vis-a-vita-Boukis,

intensify attacks. Yesterday during his press conference with Prime prime minister and now he you know president

Trump insisted that there's more in store for the hootis if they don't back down so i think that's a

positive direction that we're going in and we've designated the hooties as a terrorist organization

it was a mistake to ever take them off the fTO list so we we're going in the right direction, but, you know,

these organizations, because they are embedded into such a popular base, and because they have a

sprawling military infrastructure, we should not expect that they should, they will be destroyed

in a matter of weeks. Bill, you have a question or a comment on the Houthis.

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