GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Lebanon asking after the IDF mission, asking after the Hezbollah mission...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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1900 Beirut train station
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9:00-9:15 (1/2): HEZBOLLAH: Biden Administration's Final Weeks
-David Daoud, FDD
-Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
9:15-9:30 (2/2): HEZBOLLAH: Strategic Options
-David Daoud, FDD
-Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
9:30-9:45: ISRAEL: Northern Border Operations
-Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
9:45-10:00: GAZA: Hostage Crisis Update
-Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, FDD
SECOND HOUR
10:00-10:15: IRAN: Leadership Succession and International Relations
-Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_pres
10:15-10:30: LEBANON: 2005 Hariri Assassination Update
-Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_pres
10:30-11:00: UKRAINE: Long-Range Operations and North Korean Presence
-John Hardie, FDD
THIRD HOUR
11:00-11:15: NEW WORLD REPORT: Terrorism Update
-Joseph Humire, @SecureFreeSoc
-Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister, Brazil
11:15-11:30: NEW WORLD REPORT: Chinese Influence in South America
-Joseph Humire, @SecureFreeSoc
-Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister, Brazil
11:30-11:45: PERU: COSCO's Lima Operations
-Jonathan Ward, Hudson Institute
-Gordon Chang, Gatestone
11:45-12:00: PLA: J-35 Aircraft Analysis
-Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center
-Gordon Chang, Gatestone
FOURTH HOUR
12:00-12:15: UKRAINE: U.S. Policy Shift
-Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
12:15-12:30: ITALY: Musk-Italian President Exchange
-Lorenzo Fiori, Milano
12:30-12:45: MOLDOVA/GEORGIA: Kremlin Influence Operations
-Ivana Stradner, FDD
12:45-1:00: OCEANIA: China's Maritime Strategy
-Grant Newsham, author "When China Attacks"
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins with Hezbollah, the last weeks of the Biden administration, and what is to be done. David Dalyud and Hassan Hakani join me, speculating on the maneuvering room that Biden team has before there's a Trump team negotiations between |
| 0:20.9 | Beirut, Jerusalem, and Washington. |
| 0:23.8 | The rockets continue, |
| 0:26.0 | the drones continue to attack northern Israel. |
| 0:29.5 | Hezbollah said to continue this |
| 0:31.5 | because they want to negotiate |
| 0:33.6 | or because they're under orders from Iran. |
| 0:36.0 | Choose one. |
| 0:38.1 | Then to the northern border, speaking with Seth Fransman of the Jerusalem Post on the barrage that continues, no end in sight. |
| 0:48.6 | The IDF is operating in Lebanon, but just along the border area to prevent any cross-border attack similar to October |
| 0:56.1 | 7th. Remember, that was a Hezbollah plan that Hamas adopted for that murder raid. |
| 1:03.3 | Is the Ayatollah dying? Malcolm Honan reports, unconfirmed reports, that the Ayatollah has obliged |
| 1:10.5 | an emergency meeting of the Council of Guardians |
| 1:13.0 | and that the result was a choice of a new Ayatola. |
| 1:18.5 | No surprise that it's much to buy. |
| 1:21.5 | Homeni, the Ayatollah's son, if all proved to correct. |
| 1:26.8 | The Ayatollah is dead, as has been reported, |
| 1:30.3 | but he's very poorly. Also, Lebanon. The IDF is reporting that it has now targeted, killed |
| 1:40.5 | the last of the Hararei assassins from 2005, Hezbollah Ops. |
| 1:47.7 | You will recall this triggered the decline and fall of Lebanon as a sovereign state into |
| 1:54.6 | the hands of Hezbollah nearly 20 years ago. |
| 1:59.4 | Ukraine, John Hardy, joins to talk about the controversy over Joe Biden, |
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