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TONIGHT: The show begins in the Suez Canal abord a US Navy SSGN filled with up to 154 Tomahawk missiles. From the Red Sea to Tehran, Damascus and Beirut. From Pakistan deporting up to 1.7 million Afghans to Kabul where there seems no planning for the cri

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in the Suez Canal abord a US Navy SSGN filled with up to 154 Tomahawk missiles. From the Red Sea to Tehran, Damascus and Beirut. From Pakistan deporting up to 1.7 million Afghans to Kabul where there seems no planning for the crisis. Then to college campuses now practicing open antisemitism without challenge. From Harvard Yard to Nassau Hall the same story. Later to the Koreas, where Kim gains in stature by the attention of warring Moscow. From Gaza to Balochistan; from Quito to Panama City. Dizzying disorder.


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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins in the Suez Canal on board an SSGM that is a

0:06.8

U.S submarine packed with cruise missiles 154 maximum I'm told. It is heading toward the Red Sea and then into the Indian

0:16.2

Ocean perhaps the Arabian Sea, perhaps the Persian Gulf. Wherever it is, it is a

0:21.1

reminder to Tehran, Damascus and Beirut not to start a northern front and

0:27.8

then from the Suez Canal and the Gaza War we veer immediately to the crisis in Pakistan.

0:37.0

Pakistan has ordered up to 1.7 million Afghans to depart the country immediately, many of them back to

0:45.9

Afghanistan. This is more of the tragedy of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan

0:51.4

in 2021.

0:53.5

Some of these people, Ambassador

0:55.8

Hasehani tell me, have never lived in Afghanistan.

0:58.4

They've lived in Pakistan their whole lives.

1:00.2

They were born there from the late 20th century in the battles with the communists.

1:06.6

Now they're ordered to leave and there was a photograph heartbreaking in AP of strange vehicles all painted up in what you'd have to say

1:17.1

1960s adventure colors and a Beatles like all making making the dangerous road back to Afghanistan.

1:26.5

How they'll be greeted there by a Taliban that is not functioning as a government,

1:30.5

but instead as as a Chicago boss I don't know how they'll fare. They're

1:39.7

abandoned by fate. They'll find a way is my expectation. And from Afghanistan I go immediately

1:49.8

to the larger question of anti-Semitism in America which right now it has agreed

1:56.7

upon us the worst it's been since Father Coughlin in the 1930s before the Second

2:01.2

War way out of memory of the American people.

2:05.0

Anti-Semitism is concentrated in the campuses where young people gather,

2:10.0

but it includes doubts everywhere about whether the Jewish citizens of America are as

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