Jordan’s Queen Rania, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, tried to claim that Israel’s reports of Hamas atrocities against Israeli citizens were trumped up.
Rania appeared on CNN this week with host Christiane Amanpour.
She made the oft-repeated claim that Hamas’ vicious barbaric attack on Israel was somehow Israel’s fault and added the falsehood that Israel is an apartheid state, declaring, “This conflict did not begin on October 7, although it has been being portrayed as that … This is a 75-year-old story, a story of overwhelming death and displacement to the Palestinian people. It is a story of an occupation under an apartheid regime.”
Not surprised but here are three questions that @amanpour didn’t ask the Queen:
1) why is it that more than half the Jordanian population is Palestinian but the Palestinian citizens are forced to live under a Hashemite dictatorship?
2) why isn’t Jordan willing to accept a… https://t.co/2GSumJUeBn
— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) October 25, 2023
Unmentioned by Rania is the story of Israel’s repeated attempts over the decades to make peace overtures toward the Palestinians only to have those attempts rejected by the Palestinian leadership, nor did she mention the decades-long support of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah for terrorism targeting Jews in Israel.
Rania derided what she called a “hyper-fixation” on Hamas: “There’s a hyper-fixation on Hamas now because of the — that happened the last couple of weeks. But this is a problem that far precedes Hamas and will continue after Hamas,” she insisted. “This is a fight for freedom and for justice.”
“When the President of the United States is told that, you know, he has evidence — he has seen evidence of children beheaded, only to retract because the IDF said that there’s no proof of that. That is confirmation bias,” she declared. “Even at your network, Christiane, you know, the CNN website at the beginning of the conflict reported a headline of Israeli children found butchered in an Israeli kibbutz. And when you read through the story, it hasn’t been independently verified. Now, my question to you, would you publish such a damning yet unverified claim made by a Palestinian?”
Amanpour interjected to fact-check Rania, pushing back on her false claim that there is no hard evidence of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists.
“Queen Rania, I just need to stop you right there because there have been pictures shown by the Israelis and our journalists who have been down there. I’m not talking about beheadings. I’m talking about baby’s bodies riddled with bullets and things,” Amanpour replied.
“At the end of the day, there is no military solution to this issue,” Rania said. “Wars are never won. They’re always losses on all sides. Victory is a myth that politicians make in order to justify immense loss of life.”
