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Fareed Zakaria, an anchor for far Left CNN had to apologize on air Sunday to former Israeli diplomat Dore Gold for lying about Gold by accusing him of advocating for Jordan to become a Palestinian state.
“On last week’s show, I asked King Abdullah about the concept that there would be no stand-alone Palestine state in the future that but instead his nation, Jordan, would become the de-facto Palestine state,” said the oft lying Zakaria “I said the idea had been recently mentioned by long time Israeli diplomat, Dore Gold. I was wrong. Many have talked about that concept, but not ambassador Gold. I apologize for that error.”
Wrong? No, he lied.
Gold, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the UN and as an advisor to prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, responded to Zakaria’s apology, saying “Facts and the pursuit of truth are important things in the work I do, so it was important that this mistake be corrected.”
Gold, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the UN and as an advisor to prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, responded to Zakaria’s apology, saying “Facts and the pursuit of truth are important things in the work I do, so it was important that this mistake be corrected.”
Gold, not Zakaria, is currently president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an influential think tank.
Gold immediately fired back with a Jerusalem Post op-ed saying Zakaria distorted the facts, which is a polite way of saying Zakaria lied like a Persian rug, although he's from India.
“Whether he realized it or not, Zakaria was feeding into a long-held fear in Jordan that Israel was scheming to solve the Palestinian problem at Jordan’s expense. The problem was that I never uttered the words that were attributed to me,” Gold wrote.
Fake news by @FareedZakaria in interview with @KingAbdullahII of #Jordan. The interviewer accused me of questioning the future of Jordan. I never said these things. I view Jordan as a strategic anchor for #Israel and the entire region. https://t.co/JjlYXgoBqM #CNN #GPSOn July 25, while interviewing Jordan’s King Abdullah, Zakaria falsely claimed, “Dore Gold, an influential adviser to prime minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, recently said, Jordan needs to start thinking of itself as the Palestinian state.”
— Dr. Dore Gold (@DrDoreGold) July 28, 2021
Gold immediately fired back with a Jerusalem Post op-ed saying Zakaria distorted the facts, which is a polite way of saying Zakaria lied like a Persian rug, although he's from India.
“Whether he realized it or not, Zakaria was feeding into a long-held fear in Jordan that Israel was scheming to solve the Palestinian problem at Jordan’s expense. The problem was that I never uttered the words that were attributed to me,” Gold wrote.
“Having been a diplomatic envoy to Jordan in the 1990s, I knew how careful a representative of the Israeli government had to be when it came to this subject. That I would make a statement of this sort was not only inaccurate but it also underestimated the sensitivity Israeli envoys had for their eastern neighbor,” he added.
Zakaria, a veteran CNN personality, is just one of many controversial figures on the fake news network.
For example, after the 9/11 attacks, Zakaria wrote a story for Newsweek titled “Why they hate us” which was attacked by critics for explaining away Islamic terrorism and saying that jihad is really not a thing.
He then went on to defend the construction of the Park51 Islamic Center, a triumphal mosque just two city blocks from the World Trade Center site. The proposed site was a poke in the eye to New Yorkers who saw the intentions of the mosque as a way for Islam to "flip the bird" to the United States.
Zakaria was also suspended for a full week in August 2012 while Time and CNN investigated an allegation against him for plagiarism that involved an August 20th column on gun control that seemed more like it came from a previous story by Jill Lepore of the New Yorker. Zakaria apologized saying he made a "terrible mistake." But plagiarizing isn't a mistake, it's intentional. The only mistake he made was getting caught. However, after his research notes and prior commentary experience was reviewed, he was reinstated and Time described the plagiarism as "isolated" and "unintentional."
Zakaria had insinuated that Sen. Chuck Schumer 's opposition to the Iran nuclear deal was based on dual loyalties, and "you know, wealthy supporters," a statement mirrored by anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN). And of course, Schumer is a Jewish New York Democrat.
Finally, this past January, Zakaria made the insane claim that Israel had a legal responsibility to vaccinate Palestinians against COVID-19. Where did he come up with that nonsense?
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