I'm John Bachelors with my colleague and friend Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the

Defense of Democracy, a senior fellow, keeping the Long word journal where you can find the postings of Seth

Franceman of the FTD and the war correspondent for the Jerusalem Post who's joining us now to go north. Seth, the headline from London, Time

Running Out for Diplomatic Solution to Hezbollah Contact, that's Galant speaking.

Time running out. We've been watching and waiting. Is there any indication

that Hezbollah knows that it's in the target zone and is changing its conduct, these

provocations, these last months.

Is there any indication that Hezbollah wants to talk?

I don't think there's any indication that Hezbollah but I want to talk in the in the opposite

as well as putting on messaging saying you know they'll keep up their attacks in support of

Hamas and they have been increasing the attacks in the last weeks,

you know, firing hundreds of rockets per day

or more, let's say more than 100 in many days

and drone attacks and they just,

they don't have, they don't, I don't think they feel

that they need to stop or that they're suffering too much pain to change their actions I mean they've lost more than

440 fighters but one assumes they can replace that so I think Hezbollah is not

going to step back it doesn't necessarily mean Hezbollah wants a major war they like

the idea of the position there are now where they attack every day and all

they receive a response is a proportional response and they say, okay, we can handle that.

So then they'll attack tomorrow you know if Israel decides eventually

to really go in I think you know it will raise question marks I think Hezbollah assumes that

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