This is CBS, Eye on the World. I'm John Batchel with Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host and friend of the

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He keeps the Long War Journal, and we're welcoming

a major contributor to the Long War Journal, a foundation for the defensive democracies, David

Diud. We go to not Damascus,

not the mysteries of Al Jalani, but the mysteries of Hamas and Hezbollah. The war continues.

We have a ceasefire with Hezbollah, not with Hamas. We have this from the Times of Israel.

Hamas congratulate Syrians on achieving, quote,

freedom and justice by toppling Assad. We also have this, four troops killed in southern Lebanon by

accidental blast inside Hezbollah tunnel, meaning the ceasefire doesn't mean the dangerous work of

securing the north of Israel continues. At the same time, we have

reports from London that Israeli forces have occupied the watchtowers on Mount Herman. That's the high

ground of this whole region. Also assuring the security of the Druze villages along the Golan

Heights, where you can see the

smoke of Damascus. That's how close it is. David, there's chaos in Damascus. How is it with the north of

Israel and with the Gaza conflict? Good evening to you, David. Good evening, John. It certainly does

solve some matters, but it complicates others. To your point about Hamas's statement, I think this is a perfect window into what Syria, what the events in Syria mean for Israel. Hamas didn't just congratulate the Syrians. First of all, they don't mention anything about Bashar al-Assad with whom they reconciled very publicly in 2011, because they're part of Iran's resistance axis, platitudes, mostly.

But then they say, you know, Syria should return to its proper position of supporting Palestine.

So what they're trying to do is very pragmatic. They're trying to make sure they don't lose

a partner country in the north, given what Assad as a conduit for Iran's weapons meant for Hamas.

So you see something similar from the Iranians, starting to create narratives that throw Assad under the bus for his failures.

There's been feelers sent out between them in HTS, according to New York Times. This kind of goes back to the old Iran-Al-Qaeda

relationship that predates the Syrian Civil War. So it's not unforeseeable that the resistance

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