This is CBS Island World, I'm John Batch.

The threat of total war, I welcome Josie Cooper Vossar, Brigadier General in the reserves

of the IDF, now director of the project on regional Middle East developments at Jerusalem

Center.

Josie, a very good evening to you, remarked by a political bureau official for Hamas, that

total war is necessary, total war is imminent.

I won't read the propaganda other than I understand the threat.

Why this?

Why now on TV?

What does it gain Hamas?

Good evening to you.

Hi, good evening, John, and good evening, Ma'acom.

Well, I think that what we are witnessing is growing self-confidence of those elements that

are trying to harm Israel.

It's not only Salah Haruhi and his reference to total war, but also Nasrallah keeps speaking

this way and the Iranians are using the same language.

So I think it's clearly some sort of growing self-confidence that stems from the fact

that, first of all, they get more and more arms without any interference or without

enough interference.

Secondly, they gain the experience in their, especially his battle with their war in Syria.

And thirdly, nothing is being done by the national community to keep them at bay.

So we see that the Iranians are moving forward with their nuclear program, with their efforts

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