I'm John Batchel with my colleague Bill Raggio, and we're very pleased to welcome our colleague David Daoud

to report on the very difficult and non-transparent fog of war of Lebanon.

What's news right now is that Iran's chief negotiators about a possible ceasefire, possible

truth, and perhaps peace, has left off

that conversation because the Hezbollah is not considered part of the negotiation by the U.S.

side, or words to that effect.

The Iranians have made Hezbollah a critical detail of their resolution since the

beginning. However, at the same time, there's a Lebanese government. There's an Israeli government

quite different from the warfighters. And David, last I checked, there was supposed to be these unprecedented talks at the State Department

in Washington between Lebanon and Israel.

Does anything come of that?

Is that promising?

Absolutely not.

So we have another round of talks on the political tracks.

So the tracks have been kind of split into two parts now.

You have a military track, and the first meeting of the military track occurred on the

Pentagon, or at the Pentagon on May 29th.

And, I mean, just to kind of give you a breakdown, the Lebanese side refused to even address

directly their Israeli counterparts.

They were passing messages like children,

if I may be blunt, through an American mediator, while they're ostensibly, from what I can

gather from the report sitting across from the Israelis. And this is, again, a very childish

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