This is John Batchelor, speaking with Jonathan Schanser Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies

about what must happen in the north of Israel. Hezbollah must be pushed north of the Lutani River.

In the meantime, Jonathan gives a vivid description

of how close the whole conflagration came

to explosion. 15 minutes, that's what was left on the timers. They were going

to launch a barrage of thousands of rockets and missiles at Israel. 15 minutes when the IAF struck.

Will we come that close again?

Will we get all the way down to zero?

Will it launch?

I don't know. Listen to Jonathan Chanser tell the story and there is

no peacemaking here. Hezbollah must be pushed north of the Lutani River.

More of this later.

His bull must be pushed.

There is no question about it.

First, I mean, I think we need to understand that this strike that Israel carried out on Saturday night our time Sunday morning in the Middle East was a remarkable one.

It preempted the launch of up to 6,000 rockets into Israel, all set to a timer and the Israelis intervened really at the last moment.

It was 15 minutes until the timer was to reach the last click and then the rockets were going to be unleashed in what was supposed

to be a saturation bombing of significant Israeli military and intelligence assets in the central part of Israel, the most

populous part of Israel. The Israelis prevented what would have undeniably been a

massive escalation that probably would have led to a full-blown

regional war. They did so and now what we are hearing is that CQ Brown, the

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is in the region.

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