This is John Batcher, conversation with my colleague Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President

Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's, about the Hezbollah-Pagers.

I read from the Wall Street Journal.

Hezbollah pages explode in apparent attack across Lebanon.

Authorities said more than 2,700 people were injured, 8 killed,

when pagers carried by Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously.

Jonathan's remarks are instructive.

Gives us perspective on this historical perspective. He calls it a slug match, a slugging contest, a prize

fighters. Hezbollah is peppering north of Israel with rockets and missiles and drones

and has been for 11 months. The counting is

coming. Does Hezbollah want this war? It's already here. Jonathan Schanzir on the exploding pagers in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon,

kept her held by the Hezbollah operatives now in the target hairs of the IDF for their

provocations and aggression. More of this to lie. Well it does and it doesn't. I mean you know this is an

ongoing battle John and and it is tit for tat it is back and forth. These are, you know, two, you know, two powers.

One obviously non-state, the other one state, that have been slugging it out for more than 11 months.

You gotta remember Hezbollah has been waging war against Israel.

Since October 8th, they started firing on Israel one day after the 10-7 attacks, and they have not stopped.

It's been roughly 7,000 different attacks.

The Israelis have killed something like 400 senior Hamas leaders.

They have taken out significant elements

of the Hezbollah arsenal.

We are all aware of the fact that Israel

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