In some quarters of the MSM, there has been support for Israel in its war with Hamas. But the liberal media's absolute antipathy toward PM Benjamin Netanyahu persists unabated.
That animosity was on display on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning. Host Dana Bash suggested to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Netanyahu might be intentionally prolonging the war in order to prevent an accounting to remain in office.
He knows that as soon as the war with Hamas is over, he's going to face questions that he's been putting off about the failure to prevent the October 7th attacks. Questions about his tenure as Prime Minister. Is there any concern inside the Biden administration that Netanyahu doesn't necessarily see it as being in his interest to end this war as quickly as possible?"
Considering that the longer the war lasts, the more Israeli soldiers and innocent civilians will be killed and injured, Bash's suggestion virtually amounted to a blood libel.
Bash's accusation echoes Al-Jazeera's libelous line, as here:
"Analysts believe Netanyahu is likely to want to prolong the war, as few in Israel will call for a change of leader amid a war."
Al-Jazeera's "analysts" also claim as politicians like Netanyahu grow older, their "behaviours tend to become more extreme. For Netanyahu, his paranoia and narcissism have grown."
For his part, Sullivan essentially hung Bibi out to dry. Rather than rejecting Bash's odious suggestion, he adopted a hands-off approach, saying he wouldn't "speculate" on Israeli politics. Sullivan thus left open the possibility that Bash's notion was on the mark. Disgraceful.
The irony is that Biden has been urging Israel to pause its war efforts. So if anyone would be prolonging the war, it's Joe Biden!
On CNN's State of the Union, Dana Bash suggesting to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu might be intentionally prolonging the war with Hamas in order to stay in office was sponsored in part by Safelite, Abbvie, maker of Skyrizi, Subway, USPS.
Here's the transcript.
CNN
State of the Union
11/26/23
9:13 am ETDANA BASH: I want to look ahead a little bit and ask about Prime Minister Netanyahu. Because he is, as you well know, in a precarious domestic political situation. He knows that as soon as the war with Hamas is over, he's going to face questions that he's been putting off about the failure to prevent the October 7th attacks. Questions about his tenure as Prime Minister.
Is there any concern inside the Biden administration that Netanyahu doesn't necessarily see it as being in his interest to end this war as quickly as possible?
JAKE SULLIVAN: Look, I'm not going to speculate on Israeli politics. What we're going to do is just stay focused on who's sitting in the chair of Prime Minister, and that is Prime Minister Netanyahu. And deal with him straight up on the issues we that we are confronting today.
And President Biden has been able, through his direct diplomacy with Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as his diplomacy with Arab leaders, to generate the introduction of humanitarian assistance, the safe departure of foreign nationals, including Americans, from Gaza, the first pause in the fighting in 50 days since the conflict began, and hostage releases.
So, President Biden believes that his engagement with Prime Minister Netanyahu has paid dividends. He's going to continue to focus on that high-level, leader-to-leader diplomacy, and leave others to determine the politics, the political considerations. We'll stay focused on the task at hand.
