Morning Joe Regular Goes Off on Media for ‘Demeaning’ Coverage of Israeli Hostage Rescue: ‘These Are Hamas Ambassadors’
Morning Joe regular Donny Deutsch teed off on the media’s ” demeaning” coverage of an Israeli hostage rescue mission on Saturday, calling into question whether those killed during it were really civilians in a Monday morning appearance on the program.
“On the other side, conflicting numbers on casualties and hostages hidden in neighborhoods,” mused host Mika Brzezinski. “Well, who are these people who are holding these hostages? And who is Hamas? And is there any difference? Questions on all sides.”
“That’s the last question, I’d love to start with an answer,” replied Deutsch. “And, you know, we hear these headlines that, you know, four hostages rescued and 270 Palestinian civilians killed. And we need to start to look at that word civilians — and obviously war is ugly — but when in the case of this instance, when the hostages are being held by a Palestinian journalist, ‘a civilian,’ and a Palestinian doctor, ‘a civilian,’ these are not civilians, these are Hamas ambassadors.”
He continued:
Yes, there are innocent civilians. But I think back to also the hundreds and thousands of rabid Gazans as they drove, as they dragged a corpse through Gaza, cheering, hysterical with glee and joy. And it’s just once again, the media coverage is — and these were four hostages that were taken on a day to 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered, maimed, decapitated, killed in the most gruesome way — and I don’t know if Americans have four hostages that were taken and we had a rescue mission, and yes, there were 270 casualties, and many of those Palestinian casualties are deep, deep, deep sympathizers of of Hamas. Would the coverage be the same way? Would anybody be criticizing the rescue mission, or would it be truly one of heroism? But I do think we have to start to really be talk honestly, honestly about the definition of civilian casualties. And this is against the backdrop of even having said that, we’re the lowest civilian to combatant casualty in the history of war. But I just, when I saw those headlines and it was demeaning to the rescue mission, and obviously there were some real innocent people. But civilian? We got a really deep delve into that word.
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