This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett with Malcolm

Online, my colleague and friend, conference

presidents, major American Jewish organizations. We're headed

to Lebanon where there's nothing but trouble and it's not

transparent. So we welcome David Shanker, Washington

Institute is going to help us understand why his

bala is acting as if it wants to fight. What is in it for

his bala? Where is the push to provoke Israel, given the

threat to the Northern border? David, a very good evening

to you. Who drives this? Is it Tehran? Is it is it

Beirut? Is it an outside player to be named later? Why now

David, good evening to you. Good evening, good evening,

John, good evening, Malcolm. Well, Lebanon's complicated

place. And I don't know who's driving that.

Certainly, within Lebanon, his bala is the decider. And of

course, Tehran, I think, while they're de-escalating in the

Gulf itself, you know, you've got the Iranian foreign

minister going to Riyadh, I think, you know, tomorrow. But

the bring of the conflict elsewhere. And certainly, I think

his bala, and Nasrallah has said this, the head of his

bala, a number of times, that Israel is weak, as his bala reads

the internal strife within Israel, the fight, the protests

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