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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Israel managed to kill his Bolla's lead

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Speaker 1: in Hassanzrala, and overnight the Idea also claimed to have

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Speaker 1: killed another senior figure in the group. This leaves the

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Speaker 1: Middle East on the brink of war and back with us.

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Speaker 1: As journalist and analyst Gideon Levy, Hey, Gideon, how close

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Speaker 1: to war? Are We?

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Speaker 2: Very close? But it might still be prevented. But it

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Speaker 2: seems that we are very close.

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Speaker 1: How could it be prevented?

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Speaker 2: My international pressure and by hoping that is Bala and

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Speaker 2: Iran will not retaliate. If they will as well, you

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Speaker 2: go for ground operation and then it's in your game.

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Speaker 1: Does even if I mean obviously Hiszbolah wants revenge, but

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Speaker 1: does it actually have the ability right now, given the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's being pummeled by Israel, Does it actually

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Speaker 1: have the ability to regroup and do something?

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Speaker 2: The experts say that yes, they were over one hundred

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Speaker 2: fighters and it's only about their commands who were assassinated,

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Speaker 2: and the capabilities are still there and some of the

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Speaker 2: weapons are still there. The expert, I'm not an expert

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Speaker 2: for Risbalaho for their arms, but the experts say that

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Speaker 2: they still have the capability. Yes, they have to recover

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Speaker 2: from the first choke, and then they might retaliate.

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Speaker 1: Does Israel want to pull back or has Israel got

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Speaker 1: an endgame here that requires it to keep going.

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid that Israel as an endgame of entering into

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Speaker 2: Lebanon and conquering the south part those kilometers between Israel

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Speaker 2: and the Litani River and take over. I'm very afraid

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Speaker 2: that this is the purpose, because by the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, Israel claims that it wants to return it's

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Speaker 2: sixty thousand citizens who were displaced from the homes because

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Speaker 2: of the danger. I believe that by war they can

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Speaker 2: eliminate the danger.

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Speaker 1: If Iran does something, what does it do?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's really a new game. I don't By the way,

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Speaker 2: I don't think Iran will do something directly, because Iran

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Speaker 2: is quite scared from the United States, and Iran seems

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Speaker 2: to have not only a new prime minister, but also

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Speaker 2: a new direction, namely not to get too much involved

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Speaker 2: directly because of the economy and because of other reasons.

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Speaker 2: They want to reconcile with the West in a way,

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Speaker 2: and the war is as well will destroy everything. I

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Speaker 2: don't see them getting into a war is as well,

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Speaker 2: because then the United States is in the picture, and

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Speaker 2: I guess they are rational enough to understand that this

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Speaker 2: might be too big price to pay.

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Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you, mate, Thanks for your analysis.

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Speaker 1: Its gidding In Levy, Israel and Israeli journalist and analyst.

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