PREVIEW: #HEZBOLLAH: #IDF: Conversation with colleague Jonathan Schanzer of FDD regarding the looming threat of war in the north against the well-armed and massive Hezbollah forces in Lebanon -- and discussing potential strategies to address this challeng
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.0 | Conversation with my colleague Jonathan Schanser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 0:37.0 | About Hamas, about Gaza, yes, but the North, the Hezbollah 100,000 men, 150,200,000 rockets, the North, every day firing into Israel, |
| 0:51.5 | creating chaos, forcing evacuation. What is to be done? Jonathan |
| 0:56.6 | answers in detail about the idea of thinking about war in the North. Long time coming, Is it here? More of this tonight. |
| 1:05.5 | Now I continue to keep an eye on the north. Every day that is the first thing that I think |
| 1:11.0 | about as much as I think the you know the action in |
| 1:14.8 | Rafa or what's happening in Egypt or even what's happening on our college |
| 1:18.5 | campuses right now appear to be dominating the headlines. This is the big war because Hezbollah remains a very powerful player, |
| 1:28.3 | 200,000 rockets, advanced weaponry, if and when these two sides decide to go to war. |
| 1:37.7 | It will have major ramifications for the Middle East. |
| 1:41.0 | And right now, everyone that I talk to in the region is saying |
| 1:44.2 | that it's 50-50 in terms of whether a war breaks out in the North it could be |
| 1:49.8 | higher than that some according to folks that I've talked to because the Israelis are |
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