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Preview: Jonathan Schanzer analyzes the proposal for a Palestinian state as counterproductive posturing. He details the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, the weakened state of Hezbollah, and the dangerous rehabilitation of former Al-Qaeda leader AL-SHARA

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Preview: Jonathan Schanzer analyzes the proposal for a Palestinian state as counterproductive posturing. He details the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, the weakened state of Hezbollah, and the dangerous rehabilitation of former Al-Qaeda leader AL-SHARAA in Syria.
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0:00.0

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0:25.2

Defensive Democracies. How long for the Gaza City operation for the IDF?

0:32.4

Jonathan says two to three months and then measure do we continue.

0:37.3

Jonathan Shanzer, the timeline of taking down the towers and solving the Hamas threat.

0:45.1

More of this tonight.

0:47.1

Well, John, I think the number that I've heard is two to three with the goal of trying to

0:53.4

force Hamas to capitually during a lightning

0:56.6

offensive. I am not sure that that is going to happen, primarily because I think Hamas understands

1:03.0

that all they have to do is to survive. So they are going to try to stand tall. The Israelis are

1:08.0

going to put as much pressure as they can on the terror group.

1:11.5

They are continuing to remove infrastructure, including those tall towers that have provided

1:16.4

Hamas with observation points. They're all going down. There will not be much of Gaza left at the end

1:22.7

of this, but that doesn't mean that Hamas is going to be willing to capitulate.

1:36.7

After those two to three months, the Israelis are going to have to assess whether they have achieved most of their military goals or whether they want to continue to fight onward.

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