This is John Batcher, conversation with colleague Jonathan Shanza of the Foundation for

the Defense of Democracy about the imminent catastrophe in the north of Israel, the threat by Hezbollah and what is to be done.

Israel must move Hezbollah back from the border, otherwise it risks another October 7th.

100,000 people have been dishomed by the rocketing and droning

that has dominated the last 8 to 9 months since the attack in October 7th,

2023. What is to be done? And now the threats come from the surrogates of Iran that would not only be Hezbollah but Hamas, the

Houthis, the militias in Iraq, even the Taliban is talking to Iran about attacking Israel in the event that Israel moves

Hezbollah back across the Latani River and or destroys its capabilities of making war on Israel.

What is to be done?

Here Jonathan outlines it very carefully.

It's even called a name,

The War of the North and the Ring of Fire.

Jonathan Shanser, Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

Much more of this tonight.

Thank you.

Well, I think that's exactly the crossroads that Israel is standing at.

Well, if Iran begins to fire at Israel and they take part in. standing at

well if Iran begins to fire at Israel and they take part in this operation that they're

threatening that Israel begins with Hezbollah and then we begin to see the

ring of fire active activated from Iraq and Syria and from Yemen and from Tehran itself,

this might be the moment at which Israel says, okay, you know, this was the war that we've all expected. Now the only real

question that I have is whether they have sufficient munitions and they've got a

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