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CBS High and the World. I'm John Bachelor with Malcolm Honeline,

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Malcolm, for some years, we've talked to a number of our colleagues in Israel,

I'm thinking especially, about the War of the North.

It's a category that now is credible because of the tragedy of Hamas, but for years it was not

imaginable what it would look like.

Yes, Hezbollah would be involved, perhaps Syria, perhaps the IRGC, but it was all

indistinct. It's now focused, Malcolm, and I ask you to remember that category

War of the North. I think they even invented files for it preparing for it.

Is Israel expected a war of the north ever since 2006 or is this because of Hamas is this fresh

Malcolm it's not fresh it is something we have talked about and there's been a lot of

anticipation because everything is on the edge there and you have

uh... is ballad Hezbollah being Iran's major front group in in the

region and they've been arming them and preparing them for this and this is you

know you saw the threats when they opened up the gas rigs and all the rest and I know that

Elon has been writing in anticipation of just such a war for a long time.

We welcome our colleague Elon Berman, writing most recently at Newsweek, but he writes everywhere

the American Foreign Policy Council.

To answer the question, Nasrallah has been making speeches ever since the October,

Elon, and we wait each week that he makes remarks to see if there was his

clarity about his deployment of the Hezbollah rocket forces and their special operations in the north.

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