The spokesperson for Hamas was all excuses before storming out on interview over the “reality of the pain that his organization has caused.”
“No, you didn’t told me that the situation would be like this.”
(Video: NewsNation)
Broadcasting live from the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo revealed to his viewers why the hadn’t been delivered an interview with Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan at the conclusion of his broadcast.
Before passing the baton to Dan Abrams, the host came back from commercial break and explained, “To be clear, for those of you saying, ‘Oh, you were going to talk to Hamas, then you didn’t because you’re biased,’ please. All right.”
“Know, or be quiet,” he insisted, “all right.”
Cuomo proceeded to lead into a snippet of footage of Hamdan, mic’d up and ready, appearing to grow irate over NewsNation’s coverage of the atrocities committed by his own people.
“Here is the video of Osama Hamdan, the main spokesperson for Hamas. Dusty, show what happened. He was watching the show, he was saying, ‘I don’t like the studio, I thought we were going to be on-”
In the cross-talk, Hamdan could be heard saying, “I will give you one minute” and “I will leave” before he claimed, “No, you didn’t told me that the situation would be like this.”
“I will leave, thank you very much,” the terrorist spokesperson added as he removed his earpiece and the microphone from his person as the clip ended before he could be seen leaving.
Prior to the planned interview with Hamdan, Cuomo spoke with a woman named Lee Sasi about her experience at the Supernova Festival where more than 260 innocents were killed Saturday as the Hamas attack began in Israel.
As footage played of horrified civilians fleeing into the desert, the survivor recounted how she and others had taken shelter within a nearby bomb shelter. When the terrorists discovered them, gunfire erupted immediately as Hamas mowed down the defenseless before they lobbed grenades at the group.
Sasi said one of the explosives took her uncle’s life right in front of her “as he was protecting me” and that was just the beginning of the day. As she struggled to maintain her composure, the survivor added “I’m so grateful to be alive and this is why I’m here telling my story.”
Lee Sasi recounts what she experienced Saturday when Hamas began attacking an Israeli music festival. She tells @ChrisCuomo that her uncle was blown up by a grenade while protecting her. “I’m so grateful to be alive,” Sasi says.
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— NewsNation (@NewsNation) October 11, 2023
Her account covered a mere fraction of the horrors committed Saturday as Hamas crossed into Israel, indiscriminately slaughtering even babies, leading Cuomo to assert after airing Hamdan walking away from their planned interview, “So he decided to walk away. And I’ll tell you why. You don’t have to be a mind reader. He didn’t want to have to follow the reality of the pain that his organization has caused.”
Unlike other corporate media entities that whitewashed the violence and referred to the savage attackers as “gunmen” or attempted to sympathize with the people of Gaza as Israel launched their counteroffensive,” Cuomo bluntly asserted, “Hamas is a terror organization.”
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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