Mike Drop

Hey Mike, as an old Marine I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your podcast. I truly enjoy your interview style and fearless willingness to ask difficult questions. Thanks again and I plan to be a longtime listener. <>< 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks so much for having him on the show. I worked in the West Bank for 3 months trying to get perspective on the conflict. I worked as a journalist and traveled top to bottom. I went to settlements hot got detained. I toured through Hebron and had stones thrown at me by Jewish settler kids. I interviewed soldiers. I investigated a bombing by Israeli settlers into a village near Nablus. I was shot at, tear gassed, chased by IDF. I was in a village under siege for 1 week hiding with families as the only westerner documenting the hostilities. He is so right on, on so many points. It’s so hard to hear an intelligent interview with actual experience in the West Bank. People are scared to go there. It’s highly accessible. I’ll tell you this, if you think one side is right or wrong then you are wrong. Both sides have blame but at the end of the day Israel will and is trying to run all Palestinians right out of the country and have had a systematic approach of manufacturing instability in the region. Much more to say but thanks for putting him on.

Very happy with this show and Mike’s views. His wide ranging interviewees provide unique opinions with varied insights and specific perspectives. I don’t disagree with them all, and I wish he would pushback on Alan Shebaro’s one sided, woefully uninformed and sadly ignorant stance on the bombings that ended WW2, I appreciate that he lets his guests speak their minds. I’d like to hear him challenge guests more but perhaps his style isn’t to shut anyone down to stifle their train of thought. Shebaro’s lack of understanding of the resolve of the Japanese, even after henadmits he’s read nothing from their side to substantiate his claims, seems like an open door for Mike to push reality back into his guest’s POV. That said from my small misshaped soap box , Mike is a true American hero and this podcast is rewarding and well worth your time and support

It’s amusing to hear him, by omission, not address human shields, bunkers & tunnels under hospitals, schools and mosques. Nor address history in Judea (historical home of Jews) being renamed by the Romans as Palestine. Nor how Israel surrendered the vast majority of territory conquered in the Arab-Israeli wars dating back to 1948. Particularly in the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. And the list of counter points are too many to list in research of my pending military history master’s degree. Including the anecdotal experience in coaching with a Palestinian American who indeed hates Israel but hates Hamas much more. I’ll be highly disappointed if you don’t have a knowledgeable guest to counter the 2-part interview with this very one-sided POV.