CNN’s Christiane Amanpour tried to pressure Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Saturday into agreeing that South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice is “pretty conclusive” and wondered if the U.S. could stop the “mass killings” conducted, not by Hamas, but allegedly by Israel.
The entire reason why Van Hollen was on was because he is one of the Democrats pressuring the Biden Administration from the left on Israel’s way waging the war, but even still, he was far from convinced South Africa’s case had any merit, claiming there’s a difference between “individual statements” and the Israeli government’s actual intent.
That did not sit well with Amanpour, who felt cherry-picking was a completely fair way to go about the case, “And just to read one — you say the government…