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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor

With that is McCutter my colleague and co-host, and we're very pleased to welcome Joe

Trusman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Fog of War descends on the whole of the Levant, so we need what we can learn from the headlines.

Joe, a good evening to you, I read from the breaking news that seems to break every 20 minutes.

Signs grow of imminent ground up, writes the times of Israel.

Galant, who is the defense minister, very controversial and outspoken figure, you'll always see him in black.

Anyway, next stage of war in North begins soon.

Joe, a very good evening to you.

The ground operation is not something we've counted on happening. The

Air Wars dominated the headlines. The last time there was a ground operation into Lebanon and went very badly.

That's the 2006 war that was seen as Israel's Vietnam.

So is there something different? Is there a different quality about this

field because as of now it begins to be a report, not a fax on the ground? Good day

to you, Joe. Hi ground good day to you Joe

a good day John

pleasure to be here as always so yeah i think right now what's happening is that

uh... the Israelis

uh... have essentially have chisbell, they've caught Hezbollah off guard.

And what I mean by that is in the last days and weeks, as I'm sure many have seen already the news that Israel has launched these operations

against Hezbollah with a pager attacks or exploding

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