#SYRIA: The US/UAE make Assad an offer he can refuse. Jonathan Schaner, FDD
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Iron the World. I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:07.2 | To the ceasefire, so-called, north of Israel in Lebanon, against Hezbollah forces now said to be |
| 0:17.0 | observing the ceasefire. However, within the last 24 hours, there were two mortar rounds tossed into northern Israel. |
| 0:24.3 | The 60,000 or so residents of northern Israel are reluctant to say not yet risk-taking to return to their homes. |
| 0:34.2 | That is the mission statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu. |
| 0:39.0 | The reason we made a ceasefire is so people can return to their homes. That is the mission statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu. The reason we made a ceasefire is so people can return to their homes. I welcome Jonathan Shanzer, my guide on these matters. |
| 0:45.1 | He's a senior vice president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies for research. And we |
| 0:51.1 | begin with the ceasefire holding question mark and the IAF, IDF response, |
| 0:59.4 | as they said it would, intense to those mortar rounds. |
| 1:02.8 | Jonathan, a very good day to you. |
| 1:04.8 | I don't ask about the ceasefire. |
| 1:07.2 | I ask about the two mortar rounds. |
| 1:10.2 | They could be rogue elements. They could be a test of |
| 1:12.5 | Israel's determination. What is what is the IDF do in response to provocations such as yesterday? |
| 1:19.8 | Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Yeah, I think what we're hearing right now is that the Israelis |
| 1:24.5 | are going to respond to every infraction as a very serious matter. |
| 1:29.8 | The idea is that they are going to enforce the ceasefire to the last letter. |
| 1:37.6 | This is, of course, explained in what we discussed last week as a side letter that was |
| 1:42.9 | issued to the Israelis by the United States, |
| 1:45.8 | a full understanding that the Israelis cannot and will not allow for any transgression by |
| 1:52.4 | Hezbollah, that they need to be held to account, which is what the Israelis did not do for many |
| 1:57.3 | years after the 2006 war, where a ceasefire was supposed to be in place, but never was. |
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