This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Baxter, joined by my colleague and friend Bill

Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy, keeping the long word journal where you can

see the reporting by David Diyud of FDD routinely. Hesmalade. For the last last weeks, David has been directing all of our attention to Lebanon

because of the unknown threat of the scale of Hezbollah when and if it takes to the field.

Now we have this headline in these last hours from the Washington Post.

Rising tensions with Israel have Lebanon fearing return to all-out war.

Subhead, Israel accuses Hezbollah of seeking to rearm.

Lebanese officials hope their efforts to reign in the militant group

will head off Israeli military escalation.

In the hours in which we're

mourning, the tragedy in Australia were dealing with the sizable and fearsome Hezbollah army

that right here is said to be considering retaking the field. David, you've been reporting on this

for weeks, and the Washington Post now

endorses your interpretation. What else do we need to know about Hezbollah's preparation? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Not to toot my own horn, but as Bill knows, I've been tweeting about this

for months now, almost a year, in fact, saying that Hezbollah is not done, that we underestimate

them at our own peril as the West, as the collective West, definitely the Israelis underestimate

them at their own peril if they are doing so. And I've been calling any underestimation

of Hezbollah, its current leadership, any dismissal of its current leadership, October 6th thinking, because that's really what it is.

This organization benefits from playing possum and its adversaries thinking that it is down for the count because then you take your eyes off your

enemy granting them the ability to regenerate, which is precisely what Hasbola has been doing

for the past year. They've been bringing in money. We know from open source, at least, that

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