Batya Ungar-Sargon Calls Video of Starving Israeli Hostage Proof Hamas Controls the ‘Media Narrative’ on CNN

Batya Ungar-Sargon argued that Hamas released chilling videos of 24-year-old Israeli Evyatar David “to show that they control the media narrative” on CNN Monday night.

Ungar-Sargon’s comments came during a discussion about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported intention to fully occupy the Gaza Strip.

“President [Donald] Trump has said that he sees starvation in Gaza, and it bothers him. He says that the First Lady, Melania Trump, sees starvations in Gaza, and it bothers him. And the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, says he sees starvation and Gaza, and it bothers him,” observed host John Berman before asking Ungar-Sargon: “If that’s the baseline here, then what do you do? And I go back to the question, the original question — and you jump in on any subject you want here — but occupation, reoccupation, full reoccupation of Gaza. What would that change? Would that free the hostages, for instance?”

“I don’t think this is gonna happen. And, in a way, I’m very bothered that we’re talking about something that’s obviously not gonna happen instead of the footage that came out of Evyatar David starving, and digging his own grave, and it seems to me that that was a ploy on Hamas’ behalf to show that they control the media narrative. That they could get the media to talk about the horrific hunger conditions in Gaza, and then get the media not to talk about this starving young man, this innocent life who’s literally being starved day by day because they control the mainstream liberal media,” she answered. “And what they’ve done is they’ve made it such-, they’ve cut themselves out of the story, and so people don’t-, there’s a fundamental inability to blame Hamas. People will say, ‘I condemn Hamas.’ But they never blame them because there’s this view that the party with less power has zero moral responsibilities and thus all the moral responsibility is on Israel and I think we need to reject that kind of thinking because Hamas is to blame for this, and I say that despite having things that we all agree Israel could have done much better and much differently.”

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