‘You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About!’ Scott Jennings Flattened In Fiery Brawl Over Ceasefire

CNN analyst Scott Jennings got flattened by commentator Rula Jebreal when he claimed it was just her opinion that Israel violated a ceasefire agreement — when it was reported in Israeli newspapers and The New York Times.

The ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Hamas War was endangered this past week as President Donald Trump continued to press his plan to take “ownership” of Gaza by ethnically cleansing the region and Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire deal.

In fact, Israeli officials admitted as much to NYT and the Israeli newspaper Maariv. “Three Israeli officials and two mediators, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said that Hamas’s claims were accurate,” the Times reported. Maariv reported, “The defense establishment and the IDF say that so far, the terrorist organization has not violated the agreement.”

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Jebreal pushed back on Jennings when he said it was merely her “position” that Israel violated the agreement, and eventually lost it and told Jennings, “You don’t know what you’re talking about!”:

PHILLIP: So, Rula Jebreal is with us right now. I want to talk about the other major story that’s unfolding this week in the Middle East when it comes to Gaza. President Trump, again, today, suggested that the United States would have ownership over Gaza and he said it when he was sitting next to the King of Jordan. So, how is that being interpreted?

JEBREAL: I mean, I think the Arab League convened immediately a summit and they immediately rejected en masse the whole idea. He cannot own Gaza because it’s not his. Plus, you know, Gazans’ and Palestinians’ right to return and live in their own country is enshrined in international law.

What President Biden seem — sorry, President Trump seem not to understand, the international law is not option. And it’s not an option for Putin or for him. And the worst thing that he is now threatening to withhold aid from two major allies, Jordan and Egypt —

PHILLIP: Although he did walk that back, I was just going to ask you. I mean, today he suggested, okay, maybe we won’t do that. We won’t have to go that far.

JEBREAL: Because he understood it’s about — it’s not a charity. This is what he didn’t understand before, and he understood it today, when the king of Jordan explained to him this was about a peace and security deal that these two allies actually signed with the United States, and they were the first actually to normalize relationship with Israel.

The first, actually, to stand up with the Iranians send the missile in April, who stood up to that and basically shut down the missile. It was Jordan because of that peace deal. If we decide that peace deal is null and void, all hell can break truly and turn loose and you will find yourself in a war with 400 million people in an entire region that today reject that proposition. Not only because it’s illegal, but because simply this is the same argument and the same issue that triggered all of this conflict for the last 75 years.

PHILLIP: Yeah, I mean this is not the first time, actually —

JEBREAL: Yes.

PHILLIP: — that this has been put on the table and the first time it was pretty disastrous what occurred afterwards.

JENNINGS: Yeah, a couple things. Number one, the reason we’re here with this hostage situation this weekend is because Hamas decided to stop participating in the deal that was brokered as Donald Trump was coming into office.

JEBREAL: That’s not accurate. Actually, the Israeli newspapers today —

JENNINGS: OK.

JEBREAL: — says that Israel violated the ceasefire.

PHILLIP: Hold on.

JENNINGS: I know what your position is.

PHILLIP: Emily, Emily, hold on.

JEBREAL: It’s not my position. It’s the Israeli newspaper and “The New York Times” and Israeli politicians —

JENNINGS: But our ally — but our ally is Israel and you can’t trust Hamas.

JEBREAL: But they — our allies violated the ceasefire.

JENNINGS: The reason we’re here —

PHILLIP: Hold on, hold on.

JENNINGS: Who started it in the beginning? Who started in the first place?

PHILLIP: Hold on. Let me just —

JEBREAL: Israel violated the ceasefire, killed 100 Palestinians during the ceasefire.

JENNINGS: We’re here because Hamas kidnapped, raped and murdered. And now they’re violating this deal, which wasn’t even a great deal to begin with. It did get a few people back, which I’m sure is the best of what we’re going to see.

And so, what Donald Trump is trying to do right now is get this thing moving again because these people need to come back. That’s number one. Number two, I think he just wants the other states in the Middle East to do something.

JEBREAL: They already offered him to do something.

JENNINGS: And to take ownership of some people here. To take ownership of — take responsibility for their own region and I hope they do.

UNKNOWN: Well, I want to say something — responsibility for the region.

JEBREAL: There’s the only one that actually put the proposition on the table four times and this is where it’s honestly, you don’t know what you’re talking about!

And I’m sorry to say President Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about!

JENNINGS: No, I think I do. I’m sorry that you and I disagree but I have a position and it’s valid.

JEBREAL: There’s an –. There is an Arab peace initiative that is already on the table. The Arab peace initiative was put in 2002, 2007, 2017, and 2024. Fifty-seven Arab and Muslim countries together told the world and the United Nations this year again for the fourth time they are willing to guarantee Israel’s security.

They are willing to reconstruct and rebuild Gaza and pay for it. They are willing, also, basically, to normalize all of them together with Israel on one condition — end the military occupation that’s been lasting for 58 years.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.