This is John Bachelor, speaking with Jonathan Schanser of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies,

who keeps the morning brief for the FDD, about Hezbollah, and the Biden administration's thinking about Hezbollah, the

threats, the provocations, the rocketing, the driving of a hundred thousand

Israelis from the border with Lebanon?

What is to be done?

Jonathan summarizes all of this to talking, talking to Hezbollah, with 160,000 rockets, tens of thousands of them augmented with very good

guidance, mortars, drones, perhaps 50,000 regular troops, 50,000 reservists, talking.

Here's Jonathan to explain where we are right now.

Hamas is not yet completely defeated but Hezbollah awaits.

Well they first of all I mean they've said just don't fight that's what they told the Israelis they They said just, you know, don't, right? They said to Hezbollah, don't and they said to the Israelis don't.

The Israelis have agreed to focus primarily on Gaza and to postpone conflict in Lebanon.

What's interesting though is that

Yauv Galan, the defense minister of Israel,

just announced the other day, yesterday,

in fact, on Sunday, that Israel's not going to stop

striking at Lebanon even if a ceasefire agreement is reached with Hamas but the

other thing that the administration is trying to do right now is to broker some kind of an agreement that would force his ball

To move north of the Littani River and somehow force both sides to go back to their corners. I'm not sure that's possible but Amos

Hox team the special envoy that's what he's trying to do. More of this later

thanks.