Cable News Keeps Inviting Defense Industry Shills to Explain the War on Gaza
As Israel mercilessly bombs Gaza, cable news channels are inviting defense officials turned industry consultants onto their shows to explain the war — and usually to justify the unjustifiable.
MSNBC host Nicole Wallace (L) and national security analyst Jeremy Bash (R) on Deadline: White House, October 18, 2023. (MSNBC)
The world witnessed a modern high point of the American presidency when President Joe Biden visited and spoke in Israel on October 18 amid its brutal assault on the Gaza Strip. At least, that was the take offered by Jeremy Bash, national security analyst for the liberal cable news network MSNBC.
“It was absolutely the finest hour by any president I’ve seen in a long, long time,” Bash said Wednesday on the show Deadline: White House.
Bash went on to defend Israel’s “emotional” reaction to the massacre of 1,400 Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters — a reaction that has involved thousands of bombs, and cutting off food, water, fuel, and electricity to Gaza. Next, he suggested that Hamas may have “directly targeted” the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip, where an explosion killed hundreds of Palestinians last week: “I wouldn’t put it past them, given what their record is, and their use of human shields,” he said.
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