CBS Saturday Morning and foreign correspondent Chris Livesay sought to explain what drove Hamas to commit its October 7 attack on Israel and settled on “Jewish activists kicking a hornets' nest,” despite admitting these activists have no real power or significant influence within the Israeli government or Judaism. Livesay would also throw certain Christians into the blame game as well.
One woman Livesay interviewed claimed she wanted to get rid of the Dome of the Rock, which led Livesay to reassure viewers that “to be clear, hers is a dream not shared by the Israeli government or by the vast majority of Israelis and Jews.”
However, “it's enough to incite numerous Islamist groups. Hamas has dubbed its October 7 assault on Israel the Al-Aqsa Mosque Wave as the Dome of the Rock as its emblem, but this sacred ground to billions of Muslims globally, not just Hamas terrorists, stresses Iman Mustafa Abu Sway of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Simply stating this as a matter of fact or challenging them would be one thing, but infantilizing people who use it to justify terrorism is quite another.
Sway was then shown telling Livesay that “Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all Muslims. So, you find reaction from Indonesia to Toronto to New York that’s freely given. Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all Muslims and Muslims today are 2 billion people. Two billion people.”
As Livesay himself reported, it is not the position of the Israeli government, which the media is always portraying as very far-right, to destroy Islamic holy sites or rebuild the Temple, but he still asked, “Simply by performing these acts, are these Jewish activists kicking a hornets' nest?”
Sway affirmed, “They are. They are.”
“These acts” also include the transportation of red heifers from Texas to Israel, which some Jews and Christians view as necessary to bring about the reconstruction of the Temple, the Messiah, or Christ’s return. Rabbi Yitshak Mamo looks after the heifers in the West Bank, and he was asked by Livesay, “Can you understand why Hamas could be outraged by something like this?”
Mamo replied, “I cannot understand it, even if they are right, why they have to slaught[er] and rape people to win their war.”
Livesay added that “’Terrorists have been attacking us before we ever dreamed of these cows,’ he reflects. ‘They don’t need them as an excuse to kill.’”
Of course, Mamo is correct on that front. Additionally, CBS would never dare run a segment on alleged Islamophobia in America where they asked Muslims if they could understand that they were being attacked because some fringe elements kicked a proverbial hornets’ nest.
Here is a transcript for the March 2 show:
CBS Saturday Morning
3/2/2024
9:04 AM ET
CHRIS LIVESAY: To be clear, hers is a dream not shared by the Israeli government or by the vast majority of Israelis and Jews. But it's enough to incite numerous Islamist groups. Hamas has dubbed its October 7 assault on Israel the Al-Aqsa Mosque Wave as the Dome of the Rock as its emblem, but this sacred ground to billions of Muslims globally, not just Hamas terrorists stresses Iman Mustafa Abu Sway of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
MUSTAFA ABU SWAY: Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all Muslims. So, you find reaction from Indonesia to Toronto to New York that’s freely given. Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all Muslims and Muslims today are 2 billion people. Two billion people.
LIVESAY: Simply by performing these acts, are these Jewish activists kicking a hornets' nest?
SWAY: They are. They are.
SWAY: A hornets nest they’re kicking all the way to Capitol Hill.
MIKE JOHNSON: So, good to see you here in the nation's capital.
LIVESAY: Those cows were showcased in Washington at a recent prayer gathering. Many Evangelicals believe these red heifers will usher Christ's second coming.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need the Messiah to come, right? So, for me, the red heifer is red for the blood of Jesus Christ.
LIVESAY: Back in the West Bank, Mamo says the ceremony could take place any day.
Can you understand why Hamas could be outraged by something like this?
YITSHAK MAMO: I cannot understand it, even if they are right, why they have to slaught and rape people to win their war.
LIVESAY: “Terrorists have been attacking us before we ever dreamed of these cows,” he reflects. “They don’t need them as an excuse to kill.
