The initial sympathy the NewsHour showed for Israel’s plight after the brutal October 7 invasion has been replaced by endless doomsaying over unavoidable civilian casualties in a war where one side, Hamas, hides among the civilian population, thus harvesting anti-Israeli headlines about mass “civilian” casualties from gullible, biased outlets.
In a separate segment, Nawaz conducted a hostile interview with Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog. After opening with informational questions about how the war was going, Nawaz then repeatedly gouged the ambassador with politically sharpened accusations about strip-searching suspected terrorists captured in Gaza, a perfectly sensible move given the huge support for Hamas among Gazans.
Herzog explained: ….we strip people of their clothes in order to make sure there are no explosive belts or explosive charges or…
