Nadene Goldfoot
Christiane Amanpour is a case in point. She's with CNN, one of the most watched TV stations all over the world. What readers don't know is that she is of Iranian heritage. The British-Iranian journalist and television host, Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS.
Every time I have seen her, she was bashing Israel. Recently in an interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a man known to lie and lie again about Iran's nuclear program, she merely asked him a few questions while she came down hard on Israel. She let Zarif manipulate the truth. I was not surprised, as her heart most likely favored Iran. An interview by another unconnected by emotion to Iran would have turned out differently.
Israeli officials are taking CNN to task for comments by the network’s prominent anchorwoman in November 2020, Christiane Amanpour, comparing the actions of US President Donald Trump to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews that took place across Germany in November 1938. Israel would like an apology from Christiane for her dastardly comparison. They feel this belittles the tragedy of the Holocaust.
“Distortion and minimization of the Holocaust are deplorable lies that only encourage the evil voices of anti-Semitism. Employing the memory of the Holocaust for cheap shock value and to further a political agenda is a deeply troubling and offensive spin of historic and moral truths with dangerous implications.”
Of much more interest to Amanpour are settlements, which are a key focus of the program, their residents and adherents being deemed "God's warriors" – along with those Americans, Jewish and Christian alike, who support them. American presidents and Members of Congress are said to be held hostage to the so-called "Israel Lobby," ostensibly dark forces consisting of AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups who supposedly enable the nefarious expansion of West Bank communities.
In August 2007, the general manager of the American network MSNBC also attacked the 3 part CNN series on fanatics in Judaism, Christianity and Islam for defending “Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism" and for its "shameful advocacy masked as journalism." It was produced by Christiane Amanpour and was as 2 hour program called "God's Jewish Warriors.". It was a documentary on fanatics and this documentary has been accused of anti-Jewish bias. The film on Jews was the "most poisonously biased and a factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory," CAMERA's executive director Andrea Levin said. It was "deeply false," she writes, to equate "Jewish [and Christian] religious fervency with that of Muslims heard endorsing 'martyrdom,' or suicide-killing. There is, of course, no counterpart among Jews and Christians to the violent Jihadist Muslim campaigns underway across the globe...Andrea Levin is director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a media watchdog group pro-Israel nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Boston.
Dan Abrams quipped that Amanpour "avoided getting bogged down in objectivity." He also criticized her for comparing those who support Israel's defense strategy to Muslim terrorists: "Christians and Jews, for example, who support Israel's strategy for self-defense are just as much God's warriors, according to Amanpour, as the Islamic radicals who blow themselves and others up in an effort to destroy the world as we know it." Abrams is a legal commentator, author, and former anchor of Nightline. Abrams also worked as the chief legal correspondent and analyst for NBC News and general manager of MSNBC, and doubled as an anchor for the same network.
Amanpour hasn't stopped criticizing israel. Now it's over Covid's vaccine and the Palestinians. I might add that according to the international laws, the Palestinians are expected to take care of their own health issues, not Israel. Those 20% that are Israeli citizens have been given the vaccine along with other Israelis at the same time. Facts are that the Israeli programme started with elderly people and others considered at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab. Israel leads the world in terms of the number of doses per head of population.
It's also said it will transfer 5,000 doses to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza so that vaccinations can begin for frontline health workers there. In East Jerusalem where many live, all Palestinians are entitled to be vaccinated against Covid by Israel, as are medics working at the six Palestinian hospitals there - many of whom come from other parts of the West Bank and Gaza.
Hassan Rouhani full interview with Amanpour
Born in England says some articles and others say in Iran, Christiane is the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour (née Hill). Her father was Persian, from Tehran. Her Iranian father from Tehran was from a wealthy family. The Amanpours led a privileged life under the government of the Shah of Iran.and her father was the great-great-great-grandson of Mirza Mohammad Taghi, the Governor of Isfahan in the 1840s. Amanpour was raised in Tehran until age eleven. Her father was Muslim and her mother was Catholic. The Shah had been a friend of Israel. It is the Ayatollahs who have
changed Iran's attitudes and hates Israel. Does Christiane not recognize
these differences?
She is natively fluent in English and Persian. Amanpour is the niece (by marriage) of General Nader Jahanbani, who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanpour's uncle, Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.
After completing the larger part of her primary school education in Iran, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England when she was 11. During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran–Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.
Amanpour had moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. From 1998 to 2018, Amanpour was married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to former President Barack Obama. Rubin was born to a Jewish family in New York City, and raised in the village of Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York. He is the son of Harvey Rubin, a publisher and President of Pindar Press, and his wife, Judith (née Lowe), who trained students specializing in psychiatry. A mixed religious marriage where their careers were the glue that
held them together, it did not last and ended in divorce.
Rubin joined Bloomberg News in December 2010 and oversaw editorial issues of Bloomberg News in Central and South America, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Resource:
https://www.aish.com/jw/mo/Gods_Jewish_Warriors_--_CNNs_Abomination.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-eU2W5DY4 CNN's God's Jewish Warriors part I.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-cnn-anchors-double-standard-for-israelis/?utm_source=pushengage&utm_medium=pushnotification&utm_campaign=pushengage
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/cnn-documentary-on-fanatics-accused-of-anti-jewish-bias
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-calls-on-cnns-amanpour-to-apologize-for-comparing-trump-to-nazis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Abrams
https://www.facebook.com/inspiringiranians/posts/christiane-maria-heideh-amanpour-born-12-january-1958-is-a-british-iranian-journ/2159289467463178/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1607492752785476 covid vaccine and Aminpour...
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