No matter what one might say about John Fetterman’s liberal leanings, he has been one of the biggest Democrat supporters of Israel and in their fight against Islamic extremism. I wonder, here, though, if what he said to the NY Times reporter got through her indoctrinated to hate Israel and Jews head
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman clapped back at New York Times (NYT) reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro over a question on Israel’s war against terror in an interview released Saturday.
Garcia-Navarro poked at Fetterman’s unwavering support for Israel following the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Islamic terror group Hamas with a slew of questions. The Democratic senator remained consistent when pressed about Israel’s exploding pager attack of mid-September which targeted Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
Fetterman told the NYT reporter he “absolutely” does support Israel’s pager attack despite the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations condemning him in a joint statement issued in late September.
This would be the same CAIR which has always had massive links to Islamic terrorism groups
“They said, ‘When our elected officials start condoning the civilian loss of life, our collective moral compass is irreparably harmed,’” Garcia-Navarro said.
“It was targeted for members of Hezbollah. You know, no one uses beepers in that situation other than they were a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman countered.
All those beepers were sold to Hezbollah as part of a long Israeli operation to get them to stop using phones, and the company who built and sold the beepers to Hezbollah was an Israeli one, which is truly funny.
“There was a young child who was killed,” the NYT reporter said.
“Unfortunately, tragically, because daddy was a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman responded. “He brought that danger and evil into their home. And that’s what tragically resulted in that poor child’s death.”
“That’s what’s so terrible. She paid the price because her father was a terrorist for Hezbollah,” he added.
It’s one thing to ask tough questions to elicit answers that are favorable to the interviewee. It’s another to ask questions that appear to take the side of a US State Department designated terrorist group, which is what Garcia-Navarro was doing.
Also, if you refer to that link I made bold in the first excerpt, here’s how the entire thing started. It was the second question, after one about how Fetterman no longer defines himself as a Progressive, for which he said he has “reasonable views”
You said just now that progressives have adopted extreme positions, which you don’t agree with anymore. What would you say those are? Like defund the police, those kinds of things. That was a huge gift to the Republicans. And now, just some of these protesting right now. They’re openly being supportive of Hamas, or they’re now calling for the infantada [intifada] and these kinds of extreme absurd things. And they are supporting the kinds of regimes that live and impose the kind of values that are antithetical to the progressive kinds of way that they would live.
Exactly. How many Democrats are openly supportive of Islamic terrorism groups, and Iran, which are attempting to kill Jews and destroy Israel? There’s actually quite a bit more later in the interview for which Fetterman educates Garcia-Navarro on why Israel is good and Islamic terrorism groups are bad.
Clapped back? Really? New York Times reporters used to use real words for their stories about important events. Did they stop printing the thesaurus? Does the NYT really not bother hiring writers who are literate or editors who can tell the difference?