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Failing CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about his country's policies used to control violent rioting on the Temple Mount and "settlements" [aka Jewish communities] in Judea and Samaria.
PM Bennett pulled no punches to her obvious bias as she pushed the narrative that the reason for the terror meted out by the Palestinians was due to the stalled peace talks and that both sides are to blame for the cycle of violence, and asked what's he going to do about it.
“I object to the notion of ‘both sides.’ No,” PM Bennett replied. “When they don’t attack us, we have no issues with them. But when they do attack us, I have to fight back and hit them [in] their terror bases, and that’s what any leader would do, and that’s what I’m doing.”
“I object to the notion of ‘both sides.’ No,” PM Bennett replied. “When they don’t attack us, we have no issues with them. But when they do attack us, I have to fight back and hit them [in] their terror bases, and that’s what any leader would do, and that’s what I’m doing.”
There is no real moral equivalency between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel does all it can to minimize innocent casualties when they retaliate; the Palestinians do all they can to maximize casualties when they target schools, hospitals and dwellings. That's just a fact.
Amanpour went to Twitter to post this:
There’s a constant cycle of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians. Can @IsraeliPM @naftalibennett spend political capital to finally end that? He says, “I object to the notion of ‘both sides’… When they do attack us, I have to fight back & hit them at their terror bases.” pic.twitter.com/0bTPKTbUPC
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour)
After Amanpour, whose father is Iranian and Bosnian, insinuated that violence carried out by “Jewish settlers” is a major national security concern on par with Palestinian terror, quoting Bennett and an IDF general’s previous remarks on the issue, the premier interrupted her.
“What you’ve been projecting is blatantly false,” Bennett said. “It’s a lie, simply a lie.”
“No, sir, you cannot say that to me. You cannot tell me I’m lying,” replied Amanpour, who appeared taken aback by his factual statement. Of course he can call her a liar--she's a damned liar and stretches the truth to accommodate her agenda. This is a woman who compared Donald Trump to Kristallnacht and the Nazis, and never even mentioned that little part of it being about the killing of Jews.
“I can,” Bennett said. “You’re misrepresenting the facts… I said a tiny minority, and I object [to] the symmetry that you’re trying to create here.”
While violence or vandalism from settlers is unacceptable, it also pales in comparison to deadly Palestinian terror, Bennett said.
“Who’s getting murdered? We’re seeing Palestinians murder Israelis. We’re not seeing Israelis murdering Palestinians, and that’s why there’s no symmetry here…
“I also object, these are not occupied territories, they’re territories in dispute, and we have claims to our own places, as well as them,” he added.
“I get it,” the Israeli leader continued. “No one’s going anywhere. We have to figure out how to live together. That’s my job. To provide security for Israelis, dignity for Palestinians. I’m working on that very hard, and we’re succeeding.
“The problem is that the Palestinian leadership is totally corrupt, incompetent, so we have to do the job because there’s no one to work with on the other side, and… indeed, we’re adding jobs, better jobs, but at the end of the day, my utmost responsibility is to provide security to the Israeli people.”
“What you’ve been projecting is blatantly false,” Bennett said. “It’s a lie, simply a lie.”
“No, sir, you cannot say that to me. You cannot tell me I’m lying,” replied Amanpour, who appeared taken aback by his factual statement. Of course he can call her a liar--she's a damned liar and stretches the truth to accommodate her agenda. This is a woman who compared Donald Trump to Kristallnacht and the Nazis, and never even mentioned that little part of it being about the killing of Jews.
“I can,” Bennett said. “You’re misrepresenting the facts… I said a tiny minority, and I object [to] the symmetry that you’re trying to create here.”
While violence or vandalism from settlers is unacceptable, it also pales in comparison to deadly Palestinian terror, Bennett said.
“Who’s getting murdered? We’re seeing Palestinians murder Israelis. We’re not seeing Israelis murdering Palestinians, and that’s why there’s no symmetry here…
“I also object, these are not occupied territories, they’re territories in dispute, and we have claims to our own places, as well as them,” he added.
“I get it,” the Israeli leader continued. “No one’s going anywhere. We have to figure out how to live together. That’s my job. To provide security for Israelis, dignity for Palestinians. I’m working on that very hard, and we’re succeeding.
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“The problem is that the Palestinian leadership is totally corrupt, incompetent, so we have to do the job because there’s no one to work with on the other side, and… indeed, we’re adding jobs, better jobs, but at the end of the day, my utmost responsibility is to provide security to the Israeli people.”
Sad to say but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is right and, while there is bias in all reporters, Christiane Amanpour is too biased to be believable.
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