Photo: Suez Crisis, 1956
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes.
Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
 
 
EL AL MIDDLE EAST REPORT, special edition from Tbilisi, Baku and Jerusalem; today, Jerusalem. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby on the road.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_w3UG6C_Mo
Hour One
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 1, Block A: Aaron Klein, Investigative Radio and Breitbart Middle East Bureau Chief, in re: attended Pres Trump’s speech at the Israeli Museum: I am not the previous president; We are the best friend Israel has in the world period, especially anent Iran, a bad actor.  Knesset members were surprised. Not used to a world leader, certainly not a US president, speaking this way. “A big, beautiful difference [recall Pres Obama’s first tip: to Cairo, where he invited Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood]; and recall Pres Obama ‘s abandoning Netanyahu of several hours in the White House so he could dine with his family, then returned at his leisure to Netanyahu.  Trump today spoke of “this sacred city,” and “eternal ties.” Only thing he didn’t do was talk of moving US embassy to Jerusalem, but the White House website now says, “Jerusalem, Israel.”
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 1, Block B: Aaron Klein, Investigative Radio and Breitbart Middle East Bureau Chief, in re: In Bethlehem, terrorists placed a sign in front of the Church of the Nativity (supporters of Marwan Barghouti, in prison for multiple lifetimes for mass murders) forbidding entry and Abbas demurred from allowing Pres Trump in.  Then Abbas lectured Trump gratuitously. 
In Golan the other day, I saw Al Qaeda at the border in firefights with Syrian army. Significant that Trump now understands that the Middle East tectonic plates have shifted: because of Iran’s being empowered by Obama’s failure and the nuclear deal, the entire Sunni Arab world – Saudis, Qatar, UAE, others —find themselves in functional alliance with Israel. It’s time for Saudis to come out of the closet and acknowledge the strengthened ties. Saudis barely care if Palestinians have a separate state.  Trump sides with Israel, Saudis, those who fight Iran’s predatory activities.  This on the day after the Manchester attack (where shrapnel bombs with bolts and nails were invented by Palestinians).  BBC long has condemned Israel for protecting itself; unhappily, the heartbroken Britons now see what this feels like. 
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 1, Block C:  Dennis Ross, Doomed to Succeed (part IV of IV) 
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: Dennis Ross, Doomed to Succeed (part IV of IV) 
 
EL AL MIDDLE EAST REPORT, special edition from Jerusalem
Hour Two
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 2, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Pres Trump in Israel, made a strong speech at the Israel Museum, very warmly received by the Knesset members present. Was in Bethlehem for less than an hour: a protest sign in from of the Church of the Nativity that prevented Pres Trump from entering – Abbas claimed he had no power to remove it; a prank by Abbas who’s “playing out the string” and isn't even pretending any more to honor anyone’s peace proposal of any ilk. Abbas also spoke of the misery that Palestinian prisoners endure in Israeli jails — “Not allowed to call their mother,” which is patently false — and that he has no intention of ceasing enormous payments to families of jihadis, dead or alive, which strongly encourages terrorism in a land (West Bank) of massive unemployment.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 2, Block B: Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: At the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, Malcolm made a speech (in English): the enemy seeks to deny Israel’s past and thereby have Israel disappear. Intention is: by taking away the five thousand years of Judaism, it can be obviated.  Yasir Arafat saw this and pressed constantly on it; now UNESCO has taken up that mantle.  
The fiftieth anniversary of a reunited Jerusalem at the end of the Six-Day War.   Nasser closed of the Straits to Israel, thus cutting off intl trade; Israel then knew that it had to be prepared to defend itself solo  All religions freely practiced in Israel; 40,000 ancient items have been found to add to the confirmation, and more continue ot surface under archaeology and accidental discoveries. .  Jlem has been uniquely Jewish for three thousand years.  The UNESCO goal is to take away the past so Israel can have no future.   Ammunition Hill: many killed and wounded in a fight for trenches; the young people of Israel have to be introduced to their own history because the nation is now so prosperous that the youth have no inkling of the rather desperate conditions that obtained merely a few decades ago.  Pres Trump today:  his speeches and conversations were strongly in favor of the US defending Israel. 
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 2, Block C:  Bruce Hoffman, Anonymous Soldiers (part IV of VI)
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 2, Block D:  Bruce Hoffman, Anonymous Soldiers (part IV of VI)
 
EL AL MIDDLE EAST REPORT, special edition from Jerusalem
Hour Three
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 3, Block A: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen, @ThadMcCotter; in re:  Congress; John Brennan; Pathfinder Adam Schiff who covets Sen Feinstein’s seat and is being a bit ham-handed about it.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 3, Block B: Idan Raichel, Israeli musician/songwriter: http://idanraichelproject.com/en/ ,  in re: travelling around the world to collect different musics, and then integrating many of them into Israeli music. 
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, and author, Capitalism in Space; in re: Space exploration, space engineering.  SpaceX has launched another satellite: exciting, and becoming routine. A week ago, launched: only two weeks t he previous launch hope to launch every two weeks henceforth.  SpaceX now leads the entire world in number of launches in 2017.  Falcon heavy, for example also working on Falcon9.   Jeff Bezos’s BE4 rocket engine, the basis. ULA is buying it.  Lost some material. RocketLab: new company for smallsat industry, which is growing rapidly. Rocket Electro: private launch site in New Zealand This week will try the first Electron test flight.  Totally private: no govt funds; and totally privately-owned launch site. SpaceFlight buys space on others’ rockets then sells it: SpaceFlight buys the whole rocket time/space then pieces out the parts.  . . .  US uses very old space suits; NASA can't build new ones, but has wasted $200 mil on useless space suits.  [That’s our tax dollars, neighbors.] We may have to pay Russia to do our repairs on ISS.  India: Sky in Space Global has delivered first three nanosats to India, first of planned 200 that’ll provide worldwide access to ___. [comms]. Ariane Space: launches from French Guiana.  The worst big space program on Planet Earth: North Korea launches ballistic missiles.  High enough—and said that it can carry a nuke—can explode high up and thereby destroy electronics below.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, and author, Capitalism in Space; in re:  Special travel edition: to Mars!  Curiosity for six weeks has been working its way up a dry wash, looks as though at some time water or something came down and wiped away dust. Curiosity checking chemistry of rocks and soil, en route to Vera Rubin Ridge and out of Murray Formation into Hematite Unit.  May take three months. Much rougher, have to be very careful up steep plane. Opportunity has reached Perseverance Valley, gully. Juno: NASA successful orbiter of Jupiter. Fifty-plus days’ orbit.  New Horizons deep into Kuyper Belt: a moon (of what?) around a dwarf planet. Kuyper Belt is just a part of Solar System.   207OR10 has a moon.  Now to the Twilight Zone: Tabby’s star changes it brightness; we have no explanation SETI telescope got naught, and now it's dimming again. Has been dimming slowly over a long time, then sporadically brightens and dims. 
 
EL AL MIDDLE EAST REPORT, special edition from Jerusalem
Hour Four
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:  Eli Beer, president and founder of United Hatzalah, IsraelRescue.org, see TED talk; in re: motor-scooter rescue group.  Having a network of doctors prepared for any time someone has a medical emergency or there’s even a terrorist attack. Within three seconds, we can connect with the closest five people; using 250 algorithms, we calculate traffic, schedules, and can get volunteers on site within 9o seconds   Ambucycles carry a relatively full complement of medical supplies.  Operating currently and Israel; establishing groups in Jersey City (200 volunteers) as United Rescue, UK, in twenty countries. More people around the world die from delayed treatment than from any other case.  I first saw an attack when I as six; many dead. I started this program when I was sixteen.  In Israel, alone, we’ve treated 2 million people. In Israel, we have Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze atheists  all volunteers connected by love.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 4, Block B:  Eyal Scher,  IsraelFestival.org, establishing an Edinburgh-type festival in Israel.
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:  Tara Zahra, The Great Departure (part I of II)
Tuesday 23 May 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Tara Zahra, The Great Departure (part I of II)
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