CNN’s Amanpour Blames Israel’s ‘Very Far Right’ Gov’t for Stalling Peace in Mid East

“The Israelis are going further and further to the right.”

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s international correspondent, is concerned that the “very far right” Israeli government is making Middle East peace impossible while glossing over the role the Palestinian Authority plays in stalling an agreement. As she easily labeled the problems she finds with Israel, Amanpour was less specific when talking about Hamas as a terrorist group.

“There are lots and lots of complications,” Amanpour said about finding a path to peace and compromise between Israel and the PA. “Not least the Palestinians which are embroiled with a whole Hamas side of the equation. And the Israelis that are going further and further to the right. Bibi Netanyahu's government is a very far-right government.”

She continued:

“Its coalition allies are far right. Under — since President Trump has been elected, the government in Israel has simply put more and more settlements into the occupied territories. That makes it more difficult.”

Did you catch that? It's the far right that's the problem, not the Hamas terrorists.

But as Newsbusters noted, Amanpour is ignoring the offer Netanyahu made to “freeze construction within Israeli settlements if the Palestinian leadership drops its Right of Return demand and recognize Israel as a Jewish nation state.”

That's not going to happen and it has nothing to do with how far Netanyahu's government lean right.

Watch the segment below:

 

 

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