There is just a complete amazement at what the Israelis have accomplished from a military and intelligence perspective.

This is the stuff of a Hollywood script that gets rejected because it's too fanciful. It's a

paperback thriller. Like people in this country who are in this business are looking

what these Israelis have done just the last few weeks. Those in particular really resonated in three

letter agencies here in the United States because the people who blew up our

embassy, the people who kidnapped Bill Buckley and tortured and killed him

got what was coming to them. It's 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2nd here in New York City. It is 4.11 PM in Israel, as Israelis wind down their day and prepare for Russia Shunha holiday.

These past 24 hours have been some of the most intense and fast moving since the war broke out almost one year ago. happening on the ground and from a 30,000 foot perspective are Nadaver Yel and

from Mediode Aachronut and Matt Levitt from the Washington Institute for Near East

policy. Matt, Nada Dove, thanks for coming back.

Thanks for Avigans.

Pleasure.

Just to recap what's been going on these past few days,

two weeks ago in a jaw-dropping, very dramatic operation dubbed the pager attack, I guess, Israel took

out thousands of mid-level Hezbollah operatives, or at least took them off the battlefield.

Last week the Israeli Air Force dropped some 83 tons of bombs on Hezbollah's

Central Command killing Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrala and many of Hezbollah's

Central Command leadership and even the next level down.

This was followed by the Israeli Air Force attacking.

Much of what was left of Hezbollah's rocket and missile arsenal that were stored inside

villages, really in southern Lebanon right there

at Israel's northern border mere kilometers from Israel's northern border

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