Nor have I heard him talk on radio. Is there a reason for that? Radio New Zealand, for example, has never had an interview with him.

It has no end of "Middle East correspondents" and opinion-spouters, however, all of a very low calibre.

Irris Makler....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/irris-makler-jokes-about-dead-in-water.html

Liat Collins....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/another-israeli-propagandist-takes.html

Blair Cunningham...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/radio-nzs-grossly-substandard-new.html

Professor Robert Patman...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/06/mediocrity-watch-professor-robert.html

Bryan Crump...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/11/bryan-crumps-callow-and-fatuous.html

Lord Robert Winston....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/06/mediocrity-watch-professor-robert.html

Jonathan Freedland....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/04/freedland-uncritically-interviewed-by.html

Simon Schama....
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/simon-schama-ranted-against-jeremy.html

Dr David Cumin...
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/06/mediocrity-watch-professor-robert.html

ad nauseam....