#LEBANON: Hezbollah begins reorganizing. David Daoud, FDD. Bill Roggio, FDD
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchelah. Hesbila. Seast Fire. Bill Rageau, Senior Fellow Foundation for the |
| 0:13.0 | Defensive Democracies, joins me as my colleague and co-host, and we're very pleased to welcome |
| 0:17.3 | the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is David Diyud, our man on |
| 0:22.7 | Hezbollah activity that you can see and not see, the headlines in these last days in the |
| 0:28.7 | holiday weekend in the U.S. Israeli strikes continue amid ceasefire deal, or Israelis are wary of returning to the north because they |
| 0:39.8 | don't trust the ceasefire, or Hezbollah chief, the new chief, Naim Qasam, pledges to coordinate |
| 0:47.0 | with Lebanese army to implement truth. David, a very good evening to you. The ceasefire is in place or not in place, depending upon your point of view. |
| 0:57.8 | However, the return of the Israelis to the north is the mission statement from the government. |
| 1:04.7 | At the same time, the Israeli military has said that it will respond to anything that looks like a gathering of the bad |
| 1:13.7 | actors south of the Latani River. What is your measure now after several days of the ceasefire? |
| 1:20.6 | Have the Israelis got an effective monitoring system? Is the Lebanese army present in some |
| 1:25.7 | fashion to discourage Hezbollah activity? |
| 1:28.6 | Is Hezbollah standing down? |
| 1:30.2 | Good evening to you, David. |
| 1:32.1 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:32.9 | Where do we start? |
| 1:34.1 | As Bill knows, I am no fan of this ceasefire deal because it does none of the above. |
| 1:39.6 | I have not seen any reports of Hezbollah withdrawing north of the LITANI. |
| 1:46.2 | The LAF has deployed south of the LITANI in numbers, starting with the first day of the ceasefire. |
| 1:53.7 | But we've not seen a single report of the LAF disarming Hezbollah or interdicting any Hezbollah movement or acting against Hezbollah |
| 2:02.8 | in even the most minor fashion. |
| 2:05.1 | I would not expect that to happen at all moving forward. |
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