I'm John Batchew with Bill Rajo, my colleague and friend.

He's Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, keeps a long word journal where routinely you will see reports from our colleague David Daoud, whom we welcome.

David is a Lebanon-Hesbila watcher, and boy, are they involved in several battlefronts right now.

David, a very good evening to you. I'd mention immediately Lebanon, because the ceasefire, which is not a

ceasefire, continues to be a threat to the state of Israel, our ally, and to the region.

Because there's no indication whatsoever that Hezbollah is going to surrender its arms, quite the opposite.

They've been rearming, as you've reported.

However, we go immediately to what is the turmoil in Caracas? What is the turmoil in Tehran

mean for the, mean for the Hezbollah in Lebanon? Does this give them license that they didn't

have before? Are they now searching around for new sources of cash and weaponry? Good evening to you, David.

Good evening, John. Look, it's, it is very good questions. And suffice it to say, while Hezbollah is not

not to be discounted yet, I would say any celebration of Hezbollah's demise is premature and deceptive.

At the same time, it's not been a good two years for Hezbollah, starting with October 8th of

2023.

You know, if Nostrallah were alive, I imagine he would say, lo, come to Alem, had only I known,

once again, just like he did after the 2006 war, except now he left his

organization with much bigger challenges to confront than after the 2006 war. So, you know,

Hezbollah's demise is not certain, but its survival is also for the first time, perhaps, in over 40 years in question.

And as you mentioned, there are two lifelines that have now become complicated.

But, I mean, they're also not fatal to Hasbville.

We'll talk about that.

You know, Hasbell has had a presence in Latin America for decades now, a pervasive presence. And in some cases,

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