S8 Ep962: (16) Malcolm Hoenlein notes that Hezbollah's tunnels and missile capacity remain a critical danger to northern Israel. He notes rising global anti-Semitism and the influence of regional actors like Qatar and Turkey in supporting extremist ideologies.
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Betts with Malcolm, Holine Conference of President's major American Jewish organizations. |
| 0:20.6 | Malcolm Hezbollah right now is a threat to the north of Israel, and that will remain |
| 0:26.3 | recently an IRGC commander, a part of the Imam Hussein division, I believe. That's |
| 0:32.0 | Kud's force, was in Beirut. He's dead now. That's how we know he was in Beirut, but he was in charge of the missiles. It's |
| 0:40.1 | suggestive that Hezbollah is being rearmed with the very |
| 0:43.9 | dangerous missiles and that they're going to be fired by the IRGC. |
| 0:47.3 | Am I jumping to conclusions? |
| 0:49.6 | No, not at all. What we learned just recently is another |
| 0:52.4 | billion dollars was transferred to |
| 0:54.2 | Sizbalah by Iran in 2025. We think that they're still trying to transfer money and resources |
| 1:00.0 | to them. When a new government was forward in Lebanon last year, Khazbalah was enabled by its top |
| 1:07.8 | political allies, Nabila, and the Speaker of the Parliament and others, |
| 1:13.3 | to take control of key elements now, |
| 1:16.8 | though there's a lot of resentment amongst the people. |
| 1:19.3 | The fact is that the situation in Lebanon continues to deteriorate. |
| 1:24.3 | The people will pay the price for it, |
| 1:25.9 | and there's a lot of anti-Hizbalah feeling |
| 1:27.7 | amongst the people, but the government still with limited ability to exercise control and |
| 1:34.1 | its army to counter the continued attacks by Chisbalah. And look what they've uncovered. |
| 1:39.6 | John, every day, 10-kilometer long tunnels near the border of Israel, near the Latani, just |
| 1:46.4 | unbelievable that they were able to do all this construction undetected, but they retain a lot |
| 1:54.3 | of their missile capacity, and this is a danger. Israel cannot accept. |
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