Tuesday’s CBS Mornings ended the broadcast network-wide blackout on their flagship newscasts of far-left Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) smearing Israel as “a racist state,” but made sure to take her side in blasting Israel as an “extreme,” “hard-lined, nationalist,” and “right-wing” government refusing to listen to the Biden administration.
Filling in on the weekday show, CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller began by announcing “an update on the strained relations between the Biden administration and Israel’s right-wing government” with Biden set to “meet with Israel’s president.”
“But there’s focus on who won’t be there, namely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As Nancy Cordes reports, the White House may be trying to ease tensions,” Miller added.
Cordes started her report by noting Biden and Netanyahu have known each other “for decades, but he has not invited him to the White House since Netanyahu became prime minister again last year” and, in a CNN interview last Sunday, he said Netanyahu’s government was “extreme” and hoped Netanyahu would “moderat[e]”.
Cordes continued to hurl more labels and backed it up by laments Israel was thinking for itself in dealing with an Islamist regime that doesn’t want them to exist:
Netanyahu’s hard-lined, nationalist coalition has sparked months of protests in Israel for its attempts to overhaul the judicial branch. The current government has also aggressively expanded settlements in the occupied West Bank. The State Department said those settlements were “illegally built” and “an obstacle in the achievement to a two-state solution.”
Pivoting to Jayapal, Cordes lamented “[t]ensions” between the two countries “rose this week when” Jayapal, “the chair of the House Progressive Caucus” said she had “been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy.”
Cordes brushed it off, seeing as how Jayapal “walked that language back in the face of criticism from both parties” before ending with Biden extending “an olive branch of forts” by “offer[ring] to meet with Netanyahu later this year” with the location to be determined.
While the liberal media writ large have been always had an anti-Israel bias, CBS has stood apart from ABC and NBC over the last year (see here, here, here, here, and here).
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To see the relevant transcript from July 18, click “expand.”
CBS Mornings
July 18, 2023
7:09 a.m. Eastern[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Cooling Tensions?]
MICHELLE MILLER: Now to an update on the strained relations between the Biden administration and Israel’s right-wing government. Today, President Biden will meet with Israel’s president. But there’s focus on who won’t be there, namely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As Nancy Cordes reports, the White House may be trying to ease tensions.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Biden Extends Invitation to Netanyahu; Proposes U.S. Meeting with Israel Prime Minister Later This Year]
NANCY CORDES: President Biden has known Benjamin Netanyahu for decades, but he has not invited him to the White House since Netanyahu became prime minister again last year. Just last week, Biden calls Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet extreme.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We’re talking with them regularly, trying to tamp down what’s going on, and hopefully, Bibi will continue to move toward moderation.
CORDES: Netanyahu’s hard-lined, nationalist coalition has sparked months of protests in Israel for its attempts to overhaul the judicial branch. The current government has also aggressively expanded settlements in the occupied West Bank. The State Department said those settlements were “illegally built” and “an obstacle in the achievement to a two-state solution.” Netanyahu has shrugged off those critiques.
ISRAELI PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU [on CBS’s Face the Nation, 04/23/23]: It’s an internal matter that we have to resolve and we’re doing it.
CORDES: Tensions rose this week when the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, Pramila Jayapal, said this:
CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA) [at Netroots Nation ‘23]: And I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy.
CORDES: The congresswoman walked that language back in the face of criticism from both parties. In what could be viewed as an olive branch of sorts, Mr. Biden offered to meet with Netanyahu later this year. Now, White House officials stressed they still have the same concerns about his government, and while Netanyahu says the meeting’s going to happen here at the White House, aides here say details are still being worked out. Nate?
NATE BURLESON: Nancy, thank you.
(....)
8:01:33 a.m.
11 seconds[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: U.S. Israel Relations]
MILLER: President Biden invites Israel’s prime minister to visit despite controversies over the country’s government.
KIRBY: Those concerns are still valid. They’re — they — they — they’re disturbing.
