I'm John Bachelor with Jonathan's

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conflict zones, Eurasian conflict zones, especially the one in and around Israel.

But right now we're heading north to what is a constant barrage out of Lebanon by Hezbollah

into the border land with Israel.

80 to 100,000 Israelis have been removed, evacuated, they've

been living in hotels for months and months. I'm told that up to 150,000 are in fact living

in hotels because they've also been evacuated from the

south. The Israeli economy is sputtering as you would expect with the

reservists and yet there is reason to believe that Hezbollah is looking at a combat not unlike anything

that we've seen be not like anything we've seen before because of the new levels of warfare, drones,

hypersonic missiles, intelligence gathering, listening posts, and yet Hezbollah

continues to provoke. There are casualties in the north, but the provocations are everything.

Jonathan, I'm struck by the fact that the messaging out of the IDF is that we're ready.

Reservists have gone through the pacing of what it is to take a village on the border land.

The officer class was in for retraining about commanding men and women moving very fast over terrain, building rows

with D-9s, using surveillance drones, attack drones, all of that looks like the predicate

for a combat. There's also been talk out of the predicate for a combat.

It's also been talked out of the cabinet for weeks now

about if not now when.

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