This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Bachel.

Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy, my colleague and co-host,

and we're very pleased to welcome David Diyud of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

watching Lebanon for us to begin.

And Lebanon is the dangerous player in the Middle East,

a very large, with depth in all directions,

lots of weapons,

and an outside source of weaponry as well.

David, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this.

My sense of Hezbollah is that it remains dangerous,

despite the fact the IDF has been

consistently successful in either fending it off or destroying weapons or moving it back above the

Latani River. What is your sense right now of Hezbollah? Is it rearming quickly or is it setting up a campaign that's going to take

years before back at full strength? Good day to you, David. Good day, John. It's always a pleasure

to be on. Look, I think when we talk about Hezbollah's regeneration, we should take it for granted

that they are attempting to rebuild their military strength.

They've said this, right?

They're engaged in ongoing bilateral talks with the president of Lebanon, Joseph Hahn, regarding the fate of their arsenal.

Now, some read into that very hopefully to say, the era of militias and their private arsenals in Lebanon is over,

Hezbollah moved to quickly quash those hopes and say, we are not disarming.

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