Israel is demanding an apology from CNN over its coverage of Saturday’s terrorist attack in Itamar claiming it was “tendentious and deceptive.” Government Press Office director Oren Helman sent a letter to CNN’s Bureau Chief Kevin Flower saying he was astonished at the network’s coverage of the ruthless attack.
A CNN website report avoided describing the event as a terror attack, noting that the Israel Defense Forces consider it an act of terrorism. “Only you decided to use the term terrorist attack in quotation marks, as if this were not necessarily the case,” Helman wrote. “There is a limit to the extent of objectivity regarding such a horrific deed.”
The CNN report stated: “Five members of an Israeli family were killed in the West Bank early Saturday morning in what the Israeli military is calling a ‘terror attack.’”
The report went on to say: “According to a military spokeswoman, an intruder entered the Israeli settlement of Itamar near the northern West Bank city of Nablus around 1 am, made his way into a family home and killed two parents and their three children.”
The IDF’s official statement noted that forces were searching for a “terrorist” and not an “intruder” as the CNN report noted. The terrorist was also referred to as an “assailant” later in the report. There was no mention of the possibility this was the act of a Palestinian terrorist.
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CNN is not a real News Network, but and educating arm for the Leftist of America. Israel had the correct description of what this terrorist was trying to accomplish. All Israeli citizens should be armed, and shoot any Palestinian that comes within two hundred yards of one of their homes. Either that backward group of Arabs learn to live with civilized people, or drive them into Africa. I prefer the latter choice.
No one should give CNN any merit as far as being a news agency! CNN continues to compromise their position as a reliable news source with continued mediocre reporting.
Agreed. CNN is not a real news network. If you want real news go to infowars.com. That's a hard hitting news source. You may not be able to sleep as well at night, but you're getting the truth. I'd rather know the truth than continue to be led to the slaughter blindly. CNN provides those little "happy pill" stories where they tell us what we "want" to hear (or really what they want us to here), not the truth. They want to make sure the natives don't get too riled up and restless. Alex Jones is the host of infowars and the live program is on from 11 am – 2 pm everyday. Re-runs of the video feeds of previous shows are available on youtube. Personally, I'm sick of the lies, the disinformation, and the deception of the MSM. Truth is power! V
Correction — I should have said it's on 11 am – 2 pm every WEEKDAY instead of everyday. Saturday there is no program, and on Sunday there is a program from 4 pm – 6 pm, I believe. God bless.
Comunist News Network CNN is a JOKE………………God Blss Isreal and may God Bless America
This wonderful world we live in is going to crap thanks to these idiots who don't belive in God or Constitution or our rights for FREEDOM. I just pray we get out of this soon and God will do what he has to do.
AMEN