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S8 Ep1099: Bill Roggio. Roggio emphasizes that Hezbollah's core goal remains Israel's destruction, rendering diplomatic ceasefires ineffective. He also warns that Syria's leader is a savvy jihadist who effectively manipulates Western perceptions while remaining a da

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 July 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Bill Roggio. Roggio emphasizes that Hezbollah's core goal remains Israel's destruction, rendering diplomatic ceasefires ineffective. He also warns that Syria's leader is a savvy jihadist who effectively manipulates Western perceptions while remaining a dangerous neighbor. (2)
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0:00.0

I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Bill Raggio, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense

0:20.3

of Democracies.

0:21.1

Where to check is the FD.org site.

0:24.2

Oh, specifically for warfighting, however, there's Bill's site, the Long Ward Journal.

0:29.3

All right.

0:30.0

While the Strativormuz is in the hands of the chess players, we go to the combat zone.

0:36.9

Hezbollah.

0:37.5

We're going to speak to David Diyud in the course of these next hours.

0:42.6

For FD, he watches Hezbollah.

0:45.3

Anything significant to their bill,

0:47.5

Hezbollah continues to provoke the Israelis respond,

0:51.0

and the conversation between the governments of Israel and Lebanon is not in any fashion

0:56.3

slowing Hezbollah's hand to attack, attack, attack. Do you see any change in the weather bill?

1:03.4

No, that's why, you know, these agreements, these ceasefire agreements are really meaningless if you

1:09.9

can't get Hezbollah on board. Hasbalah not only did not sign it,

1:14.2

but it denounced it. As long as Israeli, Hezbollah maintains that as long as Israeli troops are in Lebanese

1:20.1

territory, they're going to continue to attack. That's ironic because Hezbollah was attacking Israelis,

1:25.4

even when Israeli troops weren't on Lebanese territory.

1:29.5

The sooner people recognize that the Hezbollah isn't about, you know, territorial integrity of Lebanon, but the destruction of Israel.

1:38.0

Once people understand that, they understand why this conflict exists.

1:41.9

Also, Syria in the news, Damascus is making fresh remarks about Israel and Hezbollah

1:52.2

and the idea advanced by the Trump administration that Damascus in some fashion would take

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