{"id":2070545,"date":"2023-10-17T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-a-cnn-host-couldnt-help-but-call-out-aocs-word-games-on-israel-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:11:19","slug":"even-a-cnn-host-couldnt-help-but-call-out-aocs-word-games-on-israel-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-a-cnn-host-couldnt-help-but-call-out-aocs-word-games-on-israel-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Host Calls Out AOC&#8217;s Word Games on Israel &#8216;Ceasefire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feven-a-cnn-host-couldnt-help-but-call-out-aocs-word-games-on-israel-ceasefire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2070545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Even \u200da CNN Host Couldn&#8217;t Help But Call Out AOC&#8217;s\u2063 Word Games on Israel &#8216;Ceasefire&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>If Rep. Alexandria\u200c Ocasio-Cortez isn\u2019t fooling the liberal\u200c media,\u200d she isn\u2019t fooling anybody.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c leftist Democrat \u2063paid a visit Monday\u200d night to the\u2064 normally friendly confines of \u201cCNN NewsNight\u201d to \u200ddefend a call \u200dfor a \u201cceasefire\u201d in the Israel-Hamas war before Israel even gets \u2063started\u2063 on the goal of wiping \u200dout the Islamist\u200c terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>And she showed why no serious person can take her\u200c seriously.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-minute video posted to social media\u2063 by the\u200b Republican \u200cNational Committee\u2019s RNCResearch account, AOC fell back repeatedly on buzz-word talking points instead of \u200danswering pointed \u200cquestions from CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip.<\/p>\n<p>Check it\u200d out\u200b here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends \u2062almost\u2062 three minutes trying\u2063 to explain her calls for\u200b a \u201cceasefire\u201d after Hamas terrorists brutally massacred innocent\u200b Israelis and it\u200c does not go\u2064 well \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qkQ30jSIuG\">pic.twitter.com\/qkQ30jSIuG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research\u2062 (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1714254898122903772?\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phillip noted that Ocasio-Cortez and her \u201csquad\u201d colleagues started\u2064 demanding a ceasefire in the\u2062 hostilities almost immediately, after Hamas terrorists staged an \u200cOct. 7 surprise attack that killed over 1,000 Israelis, and included recorded scenes of torture, rape and murder of Jews that rivaled the dark days\u2064 of the\u200c Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Israel supposed to do about Hamas after they murdered, brutalized, abducted, over 1,000 of their citizens. Are they supposed to \u2063.. do nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC could barely get started \u200bon a\u200d response \u2014\u2062 \u201cwhat\u2019s \u2064important \u200bto note about a\u200d ceasefire is that it\u2019s not one-sided\u2026\u201d \u2014 before \u2062Phillip hit again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you really believe\u2064 Israel should not respond\u201d to the attack, she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael does have a right to self-defense,\u201d she allowed. But then \u200bshe showed her \u2062true cards:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what we need to take\u200b a \u2063look at in this\u200c situation is if collective punishment\u2064 qualifies as defense \u2026\u200b We should identify what our goal is, which is\u2064 the cooling of tensions in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that gives the game away. Anyone\u2062 who\u2019s followed the news out \u200cof Israel\u200c over\u2063 the years knows\u200b very well \u200cthat the Palestinian terrorists devoted to the Jewish state\u2019s destruction have made hiding among the Palestinian population a standard part of their strategy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a deliberate policy of making\u2064 human shields out\u200d of the exact people they \u2062claim\u200d to be fighting for \u2014 knowing full well that the greater the number \u200cof deaths, the more Israel will \u200cbe blamed for the misery caused by \u200bthe country\u2019s attackers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s normally safe\u2063 for Democrats to \u200chide behind \u2064the potential for civilian deaths to attack Israel, too,\u200d but Phillip didn\u2019t let AOC \u200bslide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s goal is to rid the region of \u2062Hamas. \u200bThey\u2019ve been very clear about that,\u201d she corrected.\u2064 \u201cHow else are they supposed to address the violent,\u200d militant \u2014 \u200bsome \u2062say \u2018terrorist\u2019 group? Other than to go in there? And take them on directly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That drew nothing but a long-winded\u2064 dodge,\u2062 a word \u2063salad\u200b of obfuscation that \u2064rivaled Vice President\u2062 Kamala Harris\u2019\u2062 most embarrassing moments \u2014 managing \u200dto be both ignorant and condescending \u200dat\u2063 the same time. There are \u201ccomplications,\u201d \u2064she explained. It\u2019s \u2063an \u201cinherently complex\u201d\u200c situation, she pointed \u200dout.<\/p>\n<p>But\u200d in\u200c the end, she had no \u200banswer.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-a-cnn-host-couldnt-help-but-call-out-aocs-word-games-on-israel-ceasefire\/\" title=\"CNN Host Calls Out AOC's Word Games on Israel 'Ceasefire'\">social \u200dmedia users noticed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She offers nothing in the \u200dway of solutions\u2063 and says nothing about release of hostages to cool tensions. Typical circular nonsense spewing\u200b out of \u2064her\u200b mouth<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheSkepticalPatriot (@TSPcorner) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSPcorner\/status\/1714262004884496541?\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She said nothing, as usual. No solutions or \u200drecommendations, just \u200cempty words\u200d and tap dancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200btequilaking69 \u200c(@tequilaislife69) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tequilaislife69\/status\/1714256400786821208?\">October \u200b17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Watching <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?\">@AOC<\/a> try to remember her pro-Hamas \u2063talking points is painful. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?\">@CNN<\/a> \u2064 stop giving\u200d this\u200d terrorist\u200c sympathizer a platform to spread\u2062 her anti-Semitic views.<\/p>\n<p>The Squad should be given no\u200d attention until they \u200cdemand the release of the hostages and condemn Hamas\u2019 brutality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike (@Mikeblumey) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mikeblumey\/status\/1714273949628932595?\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Video even resurfaced of one of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s first interviews \u200das\u200d a \u2064national figure, a notorious interaction when \u200dMargaret \u200bHoover on PBS\u2019 \u201cFiring Line,\u201d tried to make sense of the juvenile garbage coming out \u200dof \u2064AOC\u2019s mouth discussing the \u2062Israeli-Palestinian\u200b conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not \u2062the expert on geopolitics,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez finally \u2063admitted in \u2062the\u2062 July\u200c 2018 interview, shortly after winning the Democratic primary that\u200c launched her into her congressional\u2063 office six \u200bmonths later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI am not\u200d the expert on geopolitics \u200don this issue\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VM5qdVv9TT\">https:\/\/t.co\/VM5qdVv9TT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MAX-Q \u200b(@TedCornwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TedCornwell\/status\/1714280622808821979?\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those might \u200chave been the\u200c most truthful words Ocasio-Cortez ever said.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for the United States now,\u2064 though, is that \u2064too much of its political system \u2014 including the White House and the Senate and the country\u2019s major\u200d cities \u2014 is run by the\u2063 party Ocasio-Cortez represents so well.<\/p>\n<p>Long on\u2063 buzzwords when it comes to crises, quick\u2064 to blame victims when those victims\u2064 aren\u2019t approved \u2063by leftist ideology (and armed, \u200ctough Jewish Israel definitely doesn\u2019t), unafraid of parading their own self-righteous ignorance \u2064in front of a sympathetic establishment media, the Democrats of 2023\u2064 are no closer to offering\u200c a solution to\u2062 the Israeli-Hamas war than Ocasio-Cortez was Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u2064solution is the destruction of Hamas \u2014 and serious people\u2063 know it.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government knows it \u2014 it made\u200b that clear when it declared war \u200don Hamas the day after \u200cthe attack.<\/p>\n<p>American conservatives\u200b know it \u2014 that \u200bHamas needs to go the\u200d way \u2064of the\u200b Islamic State group that was destroyed\u200b in 2019\u2064 by then-President \u2062Donald Trump after former President Barack Obama (with Vice President Joe Biden)\u2063 allowed it to live\u200d its murderous existence for \u2063half a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats sympathetic to Muslim murderers\u200d will never acknowledge the obvious truth. To the faculty lounge liberal, Israeli deaths at the hands of Islamist savages are\u2063 footnotes in the greater chronicle \u2063of history of \u201cliberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There \u200cis nothing serious about AOC\u2019s talk of \u201csolutions,\u201d \u200cexcept that it can be fatal for any\u2062 country \u200dfoolish enough to depend on Democrats for their survival.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A \u2062Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2063 if you woke up one morning and \u200dhalf of the\u2063 people you count on had just vanished overnight?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That happened to me recently. I got up, came to\u200d work here at\u2063 The\u200d Western Journal, and\u2062 when I got to my \u2064office, literally half of our readers had\u200b vanished. They were \u2063just gone. We had been nuked by Facebook, and it\u200b had \u200dhappened almost instantly.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it was\u2063 even worse. \u2063Facebook hit us at\u200b the same \u200btime 90 percent of advertisers \u2064had essentially boycotted \u2062us. &#8220;Brutal&#8221; is a word I\u2019ve used a lot lately.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fight for the truth is brutal.\u2062 The\u200b fight for America\u2019s soul is brutal. What the government is doing to \u2063Jan. 6 detainees is\u200c brutal. What surgeons are doing to\u200c confused children is \u2062brutal.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>It\u2019s a fight\u2062 we\u2064 must win. 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Benjamin Franklin summed up\u2064 the situation we&#8217;re all facing \u2064when\u200c he said,\u2064 \u201cWe must \u200ball hang together, or, most\u200b assuredly, we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We plan to hang in and fight. Please help us. Please \u200c <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/join-monthly\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">subscribe today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh Manning<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deputy Managing\u200b Editor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Western\u2063 Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-cnn-host-couldnt-help-call-aocs-word-games-israel-ceasefire\/\">Even a CNN\u200b Host\u2063 Couldn&#8217;t \u2062Help\u200c But Call Out AOC&#8217;s \u2063Word Games \u2062on Israel &#8216;Ceasefire&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What\u2063 impact does Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s evasion of tough questions have on the\u2064 stability of the region?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Eet&#8221;><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She has no idea what she&#8217;s talking about. Just repeating the same\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/val-demings-announces-candidacy-for-florida-senate-race-against-marco-rubio\/\" title=\"Val Demings Announces Candidacy For Florida Senate Race Against Marco Rubio\">tired talking points<\/a>\u200c without any substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 conservativefitz (@conservativefitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conservativefitz\/status\/1714259152023248387?\">October 17, \u20632023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s hardly surprising. Ocasio-Cortez is part of \u2063the \u201csquad\u201d of\u2063 radical left\u200c-wing Democrats who use their \u200dpublic \u200bplatforms primarily for virtue signaling and pushing an extremist agenda rather than offering practical solutions or engaging in meaningful policy discussions.<\/p>\n<p>And as usual,\u200c when confronted with tough questions, she resorts to empty rhetoric and word games.<\/p>\n<p>But what she \u2062fails to realize is that her evasive responses only \u200bundermine her\u200c credibility and expose her lack of \u200cunderstanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-candidates-spar-over-confronting-china-russia-alliance-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"GOP Candidates Clash on Addressing China-Russia Alliance in Ukraine\">complex international issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for a ceasefire \u200cwithout \u2064considering the context of\u200d the conflict and\u200b the \u2062actions of Hamas \u2064is not only naive but also dangerous.\u2062 In this\u2064 case, it\u2019s clear\u200d that Hamas is the aggressor and has repeatedly shown\u2064 its \u2062disregard for human life.<\/p>\n<p>Israel, on the other hand, has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks and protect \u200dits citizens. The goal should be to\u200c dismantle Hamas and ensure the \u2064safety and security of all people in\u2062 the region.<\/p>\n<p>By ignoring these facts\u2064 and deflecting \u2064from\u2063 the real issues at hand, Ocasio-Cortez is doing a disservice to the American people\u2063 and jeopardizing the stability of the\u2063 region.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unfortunate that\u200b the liberal media \u200ccontinues\u200c to give her a platform\u2064 to spew her rhetoric without holding her accountable for her false and misleading statements.<\/p>\n<p>As CNN host Abby Phillip demonstrated, it\u2019s time to challenge Ocasio-Cortez and other\u200c politicians who prioritize political posturing\u200c over practical\u200d solutions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to demand substantive answers and thoughtful analysis from our\u200c elected officials, rather than empty soundbites and word games.<\/p>\n<p>Because when \u2063it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speculation-runs-rampant-as-biden-shows-up-over-an-hour-late-for-big-israel-speech\/\" title=\"Biden's Late Arrival Sparks Speculation at Israel Speech.\">complex international conflicts<\/a> like \u200cthe one\u2064 between Israel and Hamas,\u200c we need leaders\u200d who\u2063 are \u2062willing \u200dto engage in serious discussions and make informed decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez has shown \u2062time and again that she is\u200c not up to the task.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s stop giving her a pass and start demanding better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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