Foreign Policy

As Israel expands operations against Hamas, it has cut Gaza’s internet and phone communications which led ABC Good Morning America Saturday host Janai Norman to raise the idea of “potential war crimes,” a suggestion that was politely and subtly batted down by military contributor and former commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, retired Gen. Robert Abrams.

NPR’s Michel Martin guest hosted PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Wednesday and described her guest, Tareq Baconi, as a Hamas historian which she was careful to distinguish from a “Hamas apologist.” However, Baconi is a Hamas apologist, as he absurdly described Israel as “fascist” while, even more absurdly, saying Hamas is no longer anti-Semitic.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell sat down with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on her Wednesday show where she engaged in both side-ism, suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is just as much an obstacle to peace as Hamas.

It was November 4, 1979. The President of the United States was Democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter was seen by many on the GOP side as a weak president, which was part of the reason Republican Ronald Reagan was making another try for the GOP nomination to face off with Carter in the soon-to-arrive 1980 presidential election.

HBO Real Time host Bill Maher condemned the New York Times on Friday for their “terrible” headline on the explosion at the Gaza hospital earlier in the week where they uncritically repeated Hamas’s line that the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike. At the same time, Times columnist Bret Stephens criticized his employer and the media as a whole on the…

CBS ran a special report on the Israel-Hamas War on Friday night and had the common decency to acknowledge that history did not begin on October 7 or even in 1967. Unfortunately, however, they also decided to commit to both-sideism on the question of Israel’s creation, a decision that naturally led to one massive and glaring historical omission.

Radical internet traffic cop NewsGuard has shown once again why its bona fides as a supposedly unbiased journalism referee are hot garbage in light of how it treats leftist outlets that peddled Hamas agitprop to attack Israel. 

One day after arguing with GOP Rep. Mike Lawler that American media did not rush to repeat Hamas propaganda in the manner of Baghdad Bob on the Gaza hospital explosions, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell joined Friday’s Chris Jansing Reports to claim that The Squad has “been very outspoken” on the issue of Gaza in the aftermath of that event. That’s a funny way of saying "lied."

According to CNN, Rula Jebreal is a “journalist and foreign policy analyst,” but as a Friday appearance on CNN This Morning proved, such analysis should not be taken too seriously as she compared Israel to Russia.

Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) appeared on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC where the eponymous host did not take kindly to the suggestion that the American media repeated Hamas propaganda on the hospital in Gaza. Lawler held his ground, informing Mitchell that CNN specifically behaved in a shameful manner worthy of “Baghdad Bob.”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid demonstrated on Wednesday’s edition of The ReidOut that she doesn’t know the difference between intellectual laziness and nuance. Despite all the evidence pointing to a PIJ rocket, Reid claimed not just Hamas to be untrustworthy, but also the IDF and the United States because President Biden “fanned even more flames” by repeating the claim that Hamas beheaded babies…

CNN’s Jeremy Diamond did not listen to MSNBC’s Jeremy Bash's condemnation of the media for regurgitating Hamas talking points on the destruction of the Gaza hospital as he declared Israel has “a credibility problem,” on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, something that Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti was happy to repeat later in the show.

MSNBC national security analyst Jeremy Bash may be a former Democratic CIA official, but that did not stop him from ripping the media on Tuesday’s The 11th Hour for “breathlessly, word for word” repeating Hamas propaganda that the destruction of a Gaza hospital was caused by an Israeli airstrike.

The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday and proceeded to blame seemingly everybody, but Hamas for the current war going on between it and Israel. Temp host Michael Kosta and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer would blame everybody from Britain to the Arab states seeking normalization deals with Israel to Israel itself to the United States for the carnage, but Hamas itself…