An Israeli mother whose young sons were counted among those abducted by Hamas smacked down an MSNBC anchor’s attempt at finding symmetry amidst a counteroffensive on Gaza.
“It’s against humanity. It’s against anything that we all believe in.”
(Video:MSNBC)
Renana Gomeh, away from her home in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz at the time Hamas launched its heinous attack, was on the phone with her 12-year-old son as terrorists abducted him and his 16-year-old brother.
With roughly 1,000 slaughtered in Israel and the fate of her children unknown, the mother could not share in MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell’s attempt to sympathize with civilians in Gaza after an off base, narrative-pushing question from the host.
“I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the Gaza Strip,” the mother slammed.
“Israel never done that, and it will never do,” argued Gomeh. “So there is no symmetry! I’m sorry.”
After the mother had expressed her grief and concern for her boys with the hope that they were being held with people they know so as not to be alone, Mitchell pivoted to her guests feelings “about the attacks in Gaza” earning herself a reality check.
“You’re looking for a symmetrical situation, and I must say, it isn’t,” the mother asserted.
“If you were dealing with a war who is between two countries, countries don’t take children hostages. I’m sorry. It’s against the laws of war. It’s against humanity. It’s against anything that we all believe in,” she continued. “Every time we had missiles shot at us, I used to say to my children that they should be sympathetic toward the children of Gaza because they suffer a lot more than they do. I’m not sure I still believe in it now.”
The immediate backlash against Mitchell came as the corporate media outlet was raked for continuing coverage ostensibly blaming and shaming Israel for the atrocities brought down on their nation and their response to them.
“I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the terrorism of Hamas. I must say I love this show, and I love this network, but I’ve got to ask, who’s writing the scripts? Hamas?” asked Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday.
MSNBC eviscerated both on and off screen for whitewashing terror: ‘Who’s writing the scripts? Hamas?’ https://t.co/imVto3Thgc via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) October 10, 2023
Hosts like Mehdi Hasan and Ali Velshi had been at the forefront of sympathizing with Hamas with what NewsNation host Dan Abrams had called out as “whataboutisms and false equivalencies” meant to “defend” the acts of evil in Israel that included the butchering babies, with many beheaded in one location where at least 40 murdered infants were discovered.
“I think any mother in the world should try and imagine her children under that situation and then think again,” Gomeh noted of her hostage children.
The full force of social media continued to lash out against Mitchell for her question to the mother as some even called for her to retire.
Did Andrea Mitchell really just ask a mother whose children were kidnapped in Israel if she wants the government to make getting hostages back their top priority??? Seriously??? They’re children!!! @MSNBC it’s time for her to retire!
— Mrs. Foss Art (@krissfoss) October 9, 2023
A heartbroken mother has to tell Andrea Mitchell (and all media talking heads) to STFU and stop with the both-siding bullshit.
— °•~.Tweet Liberty.~•° (@tweet_liberty) October 9, 2023
Lawd MSNBC please replace Andrea Mitchell she struggles too much and it is painful to watch
— momof3 (@momof351929068) October 9, 2023
Andrea Mitchell is insanely bad at interviewing this Israeli mother.
— Em (@hopeformaybe) October 9, 2023
How can Andrea Mitchell be so unbelievably cold-hearted? #MSNBC #IsraelAttack
— cmarie1004 (@cmarie1004) October 11, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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