I'm all for international settlements and some sort of understanding but nobody can explain to the Israelis

why should they have any sort of an agreement as to the Gaza Strip or any sort of political compromise with the Palestinians

if they have left South Lebanon after years

in occupation in the southern part of Lebanon, six years later

they got an attack from Hezbollah that led to the second Hezbollah war.

And now, when Israel was attacked by Hamas, it's also attacked by Hezbollah in the north

on October 8th, and nobody in the international community, including France, for instance, who's supposed to be some sort of a patron of Lebanon, historically speaking, all the United States, nobody really cares about those dozens of thousands and actually hundreds of

thousands of Israelis who have their lives have become they become

displaced persons. They are being subsidized by an economy that is being

overburdened by the war in the south and nobody has a clear

solution to what does Hezbollah actually want from Israel nobody's asking this

question and the answer is they don't want anything beside

Israel being eliminated. This is not about occupation. This is about the

alliance that wants to wipe Israel off the map.

It's 1.40.

It's 140 a.m. on Thursday, June 20th here in Tel Aviv, where I am, which is why I'm starting

with the Israel time stamp this time. And at 6.40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19th in New York City.

I've been in Israel for the past couple of days. It's my fourth visit here since October 7th. And among the things that have struck me in my

conversations with Israelis here is the degree to which a war with Hezbollah is not

discussed in terms of if, but rather in terms of when.

And as for the when, some are suggesting quite soon.

In fact, defense minister Jov Galant said that the goal should be that for those

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