The following is not my usual style of Blog entry. I usually write: here, I use film/video.
Below is a video of the CNN news broadcast “Global Public Square” on 3 March 2024, in which it usually moderate host, Fareed Zakaria (a professing Muslim), departs from his usual pattern of careful fact-attribution and unmanaged descriptions –– and falls into rank propagandizing with unattributed and almost entirely Hamas-sourced data and descriptions – to foment a USA-forced early Israeli ceasefire –– and thus, let Hamas’s top leadership, and the organization itself, live on – even with them having stated they intend to kill, rape, and kidnap Jews again and again, as often as they can manage to do so.
Since Fareed’s conduct was such a far departure in this segment from his standard conduct (he always cites his sources if he gives data or 2nd-hand information) it begs the question, why is he acting totally outside his usual professional conduct?
It is my guess a Hamas representative got Zakaria alone and told him if he did not use his “bully pulpit” for the cause of Allah and Islam (as Hamas sees it)l they would do in his presence to his family what they did to the Israeli families in the Negev on October 7th.
I intercut propaganda-challenges into the broadcast, in the video below.
Offered into the conversation – with hope.