As part of their Monday newscast, CBS Mornings downplayed a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian terrorist against a synagogue in east Jerusalem as people were filing out after services. Co-anchor/Democratic donor Gayle King and correspondent Imtiaz Tyab obfuscated that fact. As they described the attack in vague terms, the latter suggested Israel was on a killing spree against Palestinian civilians.
Leading into Tyab’s report, King framed the attack as “a Palestinian gunman open[ing] fire on an Israeli settlement there killing seven people.” And for his part, Tyab reported: “Seven were killed on Friday after a 21-year-old Palestinian opened fire close to a synagogue in east Jerusalem.”
He quickly skipped past the “shooting on Saturday” where “a Palestinian boy, who was just 13, left two men badly injured.”
Tyab blamed the attacks on a raid Israel carried out last Thursday against a cell of Islamic Jihad terrorists. He ignored that part of the story and suggested Israeli soldiers were just out to slaughter Palestinian civilians:
The gun attacks follow a deadly Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that killed nine Palestinians, including 61-year-old grandmother Majida Obaid. The Palestinian death toll from confrontations with Israeli forces this month alone now stands at 35.
Tyab repeatedly referred to the region as the “occupied" West Bank, parroting terrorist talking points. NewsBusters has reported on Tyab’s history of pushing misinformation about territorial disputes in the West Bank.
King and Tyab described the situation as being stoked by “Israel's new far-right government” led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Without evidence, Tyab accused “the most extreme far-right government in Israel's history” of sweeping “punitive measures targeting” innocent and uninvolved Palestinians:
TYAB: In response to the escalating violence, newly re-elected prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, described as the most extreme far-right government in Israel's history, announced a series of punitive measures targeting Palestinians, including forcing the families of suspected attackers out of their homes and welding the doors shut, as well as potentially stripping them of their citizenship rights.
A form of collective punishment, says east Jerusalem resident Yusef Abu Thaer.
YUSEF ABU THAER: They’re not supposed to punish his brother, his family, his mother, his father. They had nothing to do with it.
Of course, this ignored the well-established fact that Palestinians teach their kids to hate Jews and Israel from a very young age and how terrorist groups march kids around in their battle fatigues. Hence the noted shooting carried out by that 13-year-old terrorist.
In 2021, Tyab rejected Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks. “Israel's air power on full display as Gaza's tallest building turned to rubble in an instant,” he whined at the time. “It followed yet another day of it, tit-for-tat attacks where Hamas fires its crude rockets indiscriminately into Israeli territory, only to be met with the full force of Israel's sophisticated weaponry.” That same year, Tyab was uninterested in how the conflict spilled over into America as Palestinians were hunting Jews on our streets.
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CBS Mornings
January 30, 2023
7:13:13 a.m. EasternGAYLE KING: Now to a tense situation in the Middle East. Israel and the West Bank were rocked by violence over the weekend including an attack in east Jerusalem. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on an Israeli settlement there killing seven people. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jerusalem this morning to meet with Israel's new far-right government. Imtiaz Tyab is also there.
[Cuts to video]
IMTIAZ TYAB: The funeral of Eli and Natalie Mizrahi, a married couple in their 40s, was emotional and angry following the deadliest attack on Israelis since 2008. Seven were killed on Friday after a 21-year-old Palestinian opened fire close to a synagogue in east Jerusalem. Haim Cohen lives in the area.
HAIM COHEN: It's disturbing, and it's shocking. And it brings to home exactly how it can happen to anybody.
TYAB: Another shooting on Saturday, this time by a Palestinian boy, who was just 13, left two men badly injured.
The gun attacks follow a deadly Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that killed nine Palestinians including 61-year-old grandmother Majida Obaid. The Palestinian death toll from confrontations with Israeli forces this month alone now stands at 35.
In response to the escalating violence, newly re-elected prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, described as the most extreme far-right government in Israel's history, announced a series of punitive measures targeting Palestinians, including forcing the families of suspected attackers out of their homes and welding the doors shut, as well as potentially stripping them of their citizenship rights.
A form of collective punishment, says east Jerusalem resident Yusef Abu Thaer.
YUSEF ABU THAER: They’re not supposed to punish his brother, his family, his mother, his father. They had nothing to do with it.
[Cuts back to live]
TYAB: Now, Secretary Blinken's high-wire diplomacy also has him meeting with senior Palestinian leaders who have severed security cooperation with Israel following that deadly raid in the occupied West Bank amid growing concerns this volatile situation could spiral into a serious conflict. Tony?
TONY DOKOUPIL: Imtiaz Tyab for us there in front of the old city in Jerusalem. Imtiaz, thank you very much.
