CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Declares That Israel Does Not Want Peace
Fareed Zakaria and Ehud Olmert, a former prime minister of Israel (June 21 broadcast)
In the teaser at the beginning of his June 21 show “Global Public Square” (GPS), Zakaria drew this unwarranted, likely agenda-driven conclusion:
Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said if he was put back in office, he would annex parts of the West Bank. That dramatic act could happen just days from now. I will talk to Netanyahu’s predecessor, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who said it is proof that Israel today does not want peace with the Palestinians.
In fact, Olmert’s assertions, as shown by CNN’s transcript, fell far short of claiming that “it [annexing parts of the West Bank] is proof that Israel today does not want peace with the Palestinians.”
Zakaria, like his colleagues at CNN, can be depended upon to regularly disparage the Jewish state.
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