CNN review: Gaza coverage

I saw Christiane Amanpour's interview with Yuval Noah Harari and was shocked by the awful inaccuracies stated by Harari - which is ironic considering he's meant to be a historian, yet is clearly clueless about the past and present of Israel. Yet his totally inaccurate framing of reality was never challenged. He talked about going through these cycles of violence as if it was a two-way street. And yet UN figures show that in the cycles of violence between 2008 and 2020, the ratio of dead Palestinians to Israelis was 20:1; the conditions imposed on Gaza by Israel on a good day amount to war crimes, breaking of multiple UN resolutions, and psychological torture; the settlements which Harari considers Israeli are actually illegal and on land that doesn't belong to Israel.

Yet, listening to the poorly informed Harari, you would think Palestinians lived a great life under occupation, because they really enjoy getting bombed, locked in by tall walls, having their land stolen, their schools and hospitals bombed. If Harari was shocked to find that illegal Israeli settlers had been murdered and allegedly tortured, how shocked would he be to find out that it happens 20 times as often to Palestinians? Perhaps he should rename his book Homo-ignoramus? After all, how different is his thinking to those who believe Afro-Americans truly enjoyed slavery?

And the facts that I'm presenting are far more verifiable than anything Harari said in the interview. You can go and read multiple UN reports. Or Amnesty International. Or Human Rights Watch. Or just some history books. This is reality. You know, I know it, even if Harari thinks that murdering Palestinians is an act of kindness.

By letting such a distorted analysis of the current situation be presented without challenge, what CNN is doing is stoking anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim hatred. All in the name of keeping Israel happy. Yet at what cost? Now we see pro-Israeli hatred coming home to roost (https://abc7chicago.com/plainfield-murder-joseph-m-czuba-stabbing-16200-s-lincoln-hwy-il/13918623/).

This isn't unrelated. Through your editorial choices you are justifying state terrorism, promoting the murder of Palestinian civilians, and pushing this conflict in the direction of Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

It is deeply disturbing that a channel I have generally considered responsible since the 2003 chaos, is drifting into disturbing, extremist territory.