S8 Ep746: Ground Maneuvers and Diplomacy in Lebanon Guest: Jonathan Schanzer Jonathan Schanzer reports on Israel’s efforts to establish a security zone against Hezbollah. Simultaneously, the Lebanese and Israeli governments are engaging in unprecedented direct dipl
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
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| 0:29.9 | Today. I'm John Batsu with my colleague Jonathan Shanzer, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:53.0 | Lebanon, the landscape is known to me because |
| 0:55.8 | I've seen it from the edge of the finger of Israel to the end of the Bacca, but beyond there is |
| 1:03.9 | a Latani River and beyond there is Beirut. Over the last day, there has been various fighting |
| 1:09.1 | at different places, but the goal remains what? |
| 1:13.8 | Is it security for the northern border of Israel? |
| 1:16.8 | Is it to decap what's left of the Hezbollah leadership that have been, we understood, deceiving |
| 1:24.2 | everyone by hiding out in institutions associated with the Sunni, not with the Shia, |
| 1:30.3 | or is it to push into the Latani River and secure everything south of there? |
| 1:35.7 | Do we know the goal now, Jonathan? |
| 1:38.5 | Yeah, John. |
| 1:39.2 | I mean, there are a couple things happening at once here. |
| 1:41.5 | This is a fascinating file for anyone that's been watching |
| 1:44.6 | the Middle East. You have this mobilization on the part of Israel, or they've called up tens of |
| 1:49.7 | thousands of fighters, reservists, who are already rather exhausted from the last two and a half |
| 1:55.5 | years of war. But they're called up, and they are now deployed in southern Lebanon there. We're watching a |
| 2:02.3 | security zone be established. This is actually leading to the destruction of homes and |
| 2:08.3 | infrastructure across the bottom, let's say two to four kilometers of territory stretching up |
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