This is CBS in the world. I'm John Bettsworth. Now come home on conference

of presidents, major American Jewish organizations, our good colleague,

Josie Cooper-Passer, director of the project on regional Middle East

developments at the Drillsome Center for Public Affairs. We're going to get

General Reserve IDF. Josie, a very good even to you. Thank you for this. Right

now we understand there is a siege at Gaza, the Gaza Strip of Hamas, but in the

north they have a threat of his beloved. Is that now an imminent threat the

war of the north from Syria and Lebanon? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Good evening, Malcolm. Well, it's a threat. It's a potential

threat. It's not imminent. It's not necessarily going to happen, but

the chances that it's going to materialize are not small.

What's happening is that we are approaching a point in our battle against

Hamas in Gaza where the decisive move to defeat Hamas would

necessitate the involvement of ground forces because you cannot

convince or it's going to be very difficult to convince Hamas to leave Gaza

just by air attacks. And for the

access led by Iran that was behind this attack and this

monster's attack on Saturday, the purpose is to break the equation and weaken Israel,

but they didn't imagine that the end of this attempt would be a break of the

equation on the opposite direction and they're them losing Gaza. This never

caused their mind because Israel refrained from doing that and

behaved for 17 years now as if what is most important for them for

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