I'm John Batchel with my colleague Bill Rajo, and we're having a very helpful conversation with David

DeHood of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies about the fighting in Gaza.

Now we go to the fighting in Lebanon.

Israel conducted two sets of airstrikes in South Limited that targeted Hezbollah operatives March 11th last week.

David, are they reorganizing?

I think there will definitely be an attempt to reorganize.

Look, and unfortunately, that that post you're talking about is now severely outdated.

There have been several airstrikes just this weekend on Hedbola targets.

Hezbollah is not going to abandon South Lebanon permanently.

It strikes me as illogical that would happen.

What I could see is a tactical withdrawal by the group,

or at least apparent tactical withdrawal by the group north of the Litani River,

perhaps until the Lebanese state

is able to negotiate a permanent end to the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

Right now, there's a negotiation. Three negotiation committees are supposed to be resolving

the issue of Lebanese detainees in Israel.

Some are civilians, allegedly, I think they're something like seven Hezbollah operatives.

The other issue is the merit, or sorry, the land border demarcation, Israel and Lebanon, do not have a demarcated international border.

The blue line is not a border.

When Israel withdrew

in May of 2000, Lebanon expressed reservations about the course of the blue line, even though

the UN had certified that Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. At the same time, Lebanon refused

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