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GOOD EVENING: The show begins at Kfar Aza kibbutz in Israel, where the survivors of October 7 begin the rebuilding. Then to Tel Aviv. To SOU with Cliff May; to Oakistan borderland with Arif Rafiq. To Gaza, to Phonecian Tyre, to Melbourne. To Yemen and

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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GOOD EVENiNG: The show begins at Kfar Aza kibbutz in Israel, where the survivors of October 7 begin the rebuilding. Then to Tel Aviv. To SOU with Cliff May; to Oakistan borderland with Arif Rafiq. To Gaza, to Phonecian Tyre, to Melbourne. To Yemen and the new emir of AQAP, to Kabul and the Taliban. To Central Asia, to Moscow, to Brasilia, Lima, El Paso, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City.

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Good evening. The show begins in Israel in the Nogeb Desert at Kibbutz Kafar, which was attacked on October 7th.

0:27.5

Peter Berkowitz traveled there with colleagues of his to hear from the Kibbutz and the Kibbutzim as they begin to rebuild the Kibbutz and their lives,

0:37.6

reawakening their dreams.

0:40.6

We then move to a conversation Peter and I about anti-Semitism among the young and

0:45.6

ideologically educated, especially on college campuses.

0:49.6

Puzzling, but there it is, regarding Israel as an oppressor, puzzling.

0:55.0

Afterwards, we move to the puzzle about how educated people who know about the pogrom and the

1:05.0

public and the Holocaust, how they can participate in the anti-Semitism

1:10.0

it seems to dominate or at least illustrate modern campuses, especially elite campuses.

1:17.8

And then electioneering for the State of the Union on Ukraine and Gaza, Cliff May comments.

1:23.6

And Pakistan, Taliban malevolence over these last days, and Arafrafica describes the point,

1:30.7

counterpoint between the army of Pakistan and the Taliban of Pakistan, sheltered by the

1:38.1

Taliban of Afghanistan.

1:41.8

And then Hamas sealing food and supplies that are brought into Gaza. And what is to stop that?

1:49.0

When and if there is a US-Israeli effort to put a floating dock off of Gaza's beach and resupply the people there.

1:59.8

Malcolm Holine joins to comment that there is no famine. There is a mass stealing food using

2:04.8

it on the black market or reselling it. There's lots of food. It's always has been lots of food. And then Malcolm Hohenline gives way to

2:16.6

Indiana Honellan and we talk about the purple dye that was favorite in the ancient world from the Babylonians to the Romans and that it comes from a sea snail.

2:31.2

Always the presumption was a sea snail production was in Phoenicia. These were Phoenicians at the city of Tyre.

2:38.2

There's new evidence, archaeological evidence that it was the Northern Kingdom of Israel that was the manufacturer of this purple dye that was so favored.

2:49.0

It was still sold in entire in Phoenoenicia but the manufacturing was Northern Israel.

2:56.1

And then a conversation about Tic-Toc with Paul de Brova from Melbourne, Australia, a National

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