Dan Abrams Denounces ‘Far-Left’ Media for Ignoring Difference Between Toddlers and Terrorists: ‘Reality Is Hard for Hamas Apologists to Accept’
NewsNation anchor and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams denounced the “far-left” press for drawing equivalencies between terrorists and toddlers on Dan Abrams Live Monday night, declaring “the comparisons just don’t work.”
“So many in the media around the world seem to be falsely equating innocent civilians, toddlers, grade schoolers taken hostage often from or with their parents on October 7 — if those parents are still alive — with the accused and, in most cases, convicted Palestinian criminals they’re being traded for,” said Abrams at the top of the segment. “You see, both the Israeli hostages and the Palestinian prisoners being released are women and children. In the case of the Palestinians, they’re teenagers, almost all 16 or older.”
He continued:
The comparisons just don’t work. And yet what so many are choosing to ignore is that the Palestinians have all been convicted or charged with violent, even terror-related, attacks. So, yeah, they’re women and children, but it is not the same.
That didn’t stop model Gigi Hadid from posting to her nearly 80 million followers, 80 million, 8-0 on social media: “Israel is the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war.” She posts that alongside the story of Ahmed Mansara, a Palestinian who when he was 13, along with his cousin, stabbed and severely injured a 13-year-old Jewish boy and a 20-year-old security guard. In fact, the attack was caught on video. You can see Mansara and his cousin running after people with knives on surveillance footage. You want to compare that now 21-year-old with, I don’t know, 4-year-old Abigail Idan, who saw her parents killed right in front of her before she was taken hostage and swept away to Gaza? Or 9-year-old Emily Hand, whose father prayed she was dead because the alternative was torture at the hands of terrorists?
It’s not just celebrities, either. You see it too often in the far-left media. MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin tweeting on the first day of the truce and hostage release “You’re about to see in real time over the next four days how the media can choose who it humanizes and who it villainizes, who is a child and who is a minor, who is a mother and who is an accomplice. Who is a hostage and who is a prisoner. In short who is innocent and who is not.”
See, he doesn’t want to distinguish between them because the reality is hard for apologists of Hamas to accept. Remember, this is from a guy who the day of the attack said on the air that the October 7 murders were the “deadly consequences” of failed policies on the American administration’s part and the Israelis. It’s really not hard to distinguish between a 4-year-old kidnapped from the arms of her murdered parents and a 16-year-old, at the very least accused of if not convicted of a serious crime.
Abrams went on to list the crimes and allegations against the released prisoners, which included various forms of attempted murder, and marveling at the New York Times‘ failure to note that one released prisoner described as “a disfigured woman whose case has become well known” was disfigured while allegedly attempting to carry out a suicide bombing.
He also addressed a Sky News anchor’s insinuation that because Israel was traded more prisoners for fewer hostages means that it doesn’t value Palestinian lives highly.
“It’s not really just disgusting, it’s just so dumb. Of course, they’re trading three for one because they have to. This has got to be a tough pill for Israel to swallow, to see Hamas succeeding in many ways, seeing Hamas getting exactly what it wanted when it murdered and then kidnapped hundreds,” argued Abrams. “It speaks to some degree to how much Israel values the lives that they’re willing to agree to that kind of terrible deal.”
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