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CNN's British-Iranian employee, Christiane Amanpour, is anything but a journalist, but she plays one on TV.
When it comes to Israel, and by extension, Jews, she is anything but objective. But she is also not very objective when it comes to Christian groups as well for having equated the incredibly rare religiously-inspired violence cases by Christians and Jews with radical Islam's global, often openly supported mass killing.
She claimed that American presidents called Israeli settlements "illegal" but it was only one president, Jimmy Carter, and he was not a fan of the Jews or Israel.
Amanpour even went so far as to misrepresent Ronald Reagan's view of Israel and the settlements. He clearly said "They are not illegal." (NY Times Feb. 3,1981), she claimed he said the opposite.
The fake news "reporter" claimed that "Jewish settlements have inflamed much of the Arab world." The truth is, the Arab world was pissed off at Israel's existence long before a single settlement existed. Arabs have tried repeatedly to destroy the Jewish State, but lost every time.
But her latest revelation of how she really feels about Israel and the Jews came when she outright lied.
On April 7, Lucy Dee, 48, and her daughters, Rina, 20, and Maia, 16, were traveling along the Jordan Valley, as they were on their way for a Passover visit when they were shot to death near the West Bank settlement of Hamra. The girls died at the scene and the mother died in the hospital several days later. The husban, Rabbi Leo Dee, was riding in a car up ahead and was not physically injured.
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| [L to R] Lucy, Maia, Rina |
On April 10, Amanpour spoke of the incident during an interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh while asking a question about escalating violence.
“We have a young 15-year-old Palestinian boy who’s been shot and killed by security — Israeli security forces,” she said, referring to the young terrorist who shot and killed them. “We also have the mother of two sisters, Israeli-British sisters. They were killed in a shootout, and now the mother has died of her injuries.”
We "also have" -- spoken as if the terrorist who was killed was the tragedy and the Dee women an afterthought.
After the network caught flak from its meager viewership, Amanpour apologized to the Dee family for lying about the attack being a "shootout," because real shootouts require bullets flying in both directions. The women were unarmed and defenseless while the 15-year-old "Palestine boy" was doing all the shooting.
It was never a "shootout." It was a slaughter.
So on Monday Amanpour admitted that she "misspoke" and apologized to Rabbi Leo Dee, after the network learned that he would be suing them for $1.3 billion, with the help of Lawyer and Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz.
She reluctantly sent a written apology to Rabbi Dee but he immediately rejected it, telling Israeli media i24 News that it wasn’t “worth the paper it was printed on.” He said that her comment is typical of CNN “where they try to make a comparison between the victim and the terrorist” and that “when you make a statement in front of 100 million people on primetime television and then you apologize in an email to a single person, it has one one hundredth of a million of the impact.”
Of course, claiming that 100 million people watch CNN is a gross exaggeration, but the point was well made.
On Sunday, during an event hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Dee said he was considering filing a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN. During the interview with i24, Dee said “there’s only one thing that would atone for this particular sin is that they change their attitude towards Israel.”
Well, he considered it and is apparently going forward with the suit. If CNN looks to settle, I hope he doesn't go along with it.
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