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The John Batchelor Show

TONIGHT: The show begins in Kyiv, Brussels, Jerusalem, Washington -- asking if both fronts can be maintained by a troubled EU and a fragmented USA.From the Negev to Caracas, from Quito to Buenos Aires, from Bogota to Ottowa, from Beijing to Capitol Hill.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Kyiv, Brussels, Jerusalem, Washington -- asking if both fronts can be maintained by a troubled EU and a fragmented USA.From the Negev to Caracas, from Quito to Buenos Aires, from Bogota to Ottowa, from Beijing to Capitol Hill. Joy of the moment is the #HotelMars conversation with NASA JPL Principal Scienties Psyche Mission Lindy Elkins-Tanto about the discoveries possible when the probe reaches the asteroid Psyche in 2029.

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The third winter of war, what is done for Europe as it sustains Ukraine but has doubts.

1:00.0

What is to be done for Israel?

1:02.0

Its vulnerability to the killers in Hamas, but also the threats from the North, from Hisbalah and Iran.

1:10.0

What is to be done?

1:11.0

We have no easy mission statement here.

1:14.0

The President of the United States has made remarks.

1:17.0

But the remarks seem to be a combination of a speech that was planned before why continue to support Ukraine.

1:25.0

And now a speech that is upon the President for his recent visit to the Middle East,

1:30.0

what is to be done for the people of Israel to provide safety that might be gone for a generation or more.

1:39.0

I have walked in sterode, I have walked in the kibbutzes around the Gaza Strip.

1:45.0

In 2014 I was there during a war when Hamas was firing random rockets into the villages nearby.

1:54.0

Its not a problem that can be solved as long as Hamas exists and Hamas will exist as long as Gaza exists.

2:01.0

There is no easy way to make sure that this or that person is not Hamas.

2:07.0

The children are Hamas of the future, the way they are raised by the Palestinian Authority.

2:14.0

Not settling that story is not a blow to the United States.

2:20.0

Sustaining Israel's defense is important to the United States.

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