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The exclusive interview with Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak provoked strong reactions among most Amanpour viewers. The commentary showed a definite division in political consensus regarding Mr. Barak’s statements. While some complimented the exchange between Amanpour and Mr. Barak during the interview, others took offense to what they described as “Amanpour’s bias against Mr. Barak.” Overall, the commentaries were emotional and supported for the most part, extreme views.
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I enjoyed your interview with Ehud Barak. I wonder if there is any difference between Israeli targeted assassinations and our assassinations by drone n Pakistan. Is there any diference in civilian casualties in Gaza and Marjah?
Michael Whitehouse
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Comments about interview with Ehud Barak
Qasir M. Chaudhry The statement of Ehud Barak is something which every criminal declares when he is sentenced by the judge; The decision is biased and distorted. His rejection of the allegations is actually confession of the sins.
Folorunso Raphael Obawumi The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program. what is happening now?
Deborah J. Boyd One of the problems between Israel and Palestine is that the Arab Nations look at the same events and see them very differently than those who defend Israel. I am not sure we can reach Peace in the Middle East without a change in Iran & Syria
Yehoshua Zohar Yes, Jewish claims to Eretz Yisrael are based on history. No, that does not mean that modern reality does not have a place in political decisions. The problem is the unwillingness of a large part of the Islamic world to recognize Israel within any borders because the land we sit on is considered by them to be Muslim waqf (as is Spain, btw).
Fatimah-Dawn Partowmah What else did you expect Ehud Barak to say? Will the Cat say that, he does not want to eat the Mouse ?
Mia Amani I don't see Muslims arguing and fighting over Spain. What a ridiculous statement!
As far as I know, they only believe that the Holy Mount is waqf not Israel and I don't even know what difference that should make under international law.
What history is "Eretz Yisrael" based on? Please enlighten. Does it have something to do with those scary prophets of biblical lore slaughtering and cleansing the land of Gentiles, three thousand years ago?
And I would not call a country with the region's only nukes and the almost unconditional backing of the world's most powerful country a "David."
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Christiane,
I thought you were unfair to Barak. What would you like Israel to do? Just keep taking it from Hamas and Hezebellah? Remember the video of the two Israeli soldiers who were grabbed several years ago being flung out a window of a house – dead. Beforehand – a guy put his hands in one of the soldiers and showed his hands covered with blood before they were discarded like garbage.
The Hamas leader that was killed was responsible for the kidnapping of soldiers like them and his hands are stained with blood. When you grab soldiers and fire rockets into a sovereign country its called war. Getting rid of a leader responsible for terror should be praised not condemned.
I was disappointed by your interview.
muchogroucho
"Overall, the commentaries were emotional and supported for the most part, extreme views."
Wow.
Ms. Amanpour, I wonder if my comment on the factual, documented history of Israel's nuclear weapons program is considered by your blog production team to be an "extreme view." Certainly some of the postings were "emotional," but often this emotion was motivated by a keen desire to have historical facts (for which CNN has often been a primary source due to its role as a recorder of events) acknowledged and stated during critically important public discourse rather than repeatedly ignored in a "wink-wink, we know what's really going on but there's no way in hell we're going to actually talk about it" manner.
Israel-Palestine should be a wonderful melting pot of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi and Sephardim and Arab and Bedouin, Islamic and Jewish and Christian and secular, European and Middle Eastern and North African, traditional and high-tech, pious and party-hard cultures that is defined by the human energy of its many constituent peoples rather than by a continuing conflict. It will never become so until the past and ongoing injustices perpetrated by the parties are acknowledged in a spirit of full honesty and acceptance of responsibility, and all inhabitants of the country (including the occupied territories) are given full rights, whether in a unified country or in two fully sovereign states. This will never happen while the world continues to lie about, ignore and allow to be forgotten the horrible things that people there have done to each other.
It seems that you and your team, like the rest of the U.S. domestic side of CNN, view history as something one can choose to ignore when inconvenient to the anointed narrative. Your program wraps a typically pundit-based, ahistorical style of U.S. journalism in the trappings of a supposedly sophisticated, thoughtful internationalism. Your program is worse than useless; indeed, it only further contributes to the pervasive corruption of public discourse in the U.S.. I will not be watching "Amanpour" in the future.
I always enjoyed Christiane forensic interview with prominent leaders around the world. She left no stone unturned, puts a face on those in key government position around the world that commits crime of humanity. Exposed their vunerability in the the promotion of dangerous ideas to their people, their neighbours and the global communities.
Her interview with the Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak is a good example. You get to understand why the Two state Solution will ever be given a chance, that will bring peace in the end. Especially for someone who had a questionable track record, to hoid the position of a defense minister. of Israel.
Christiane,
Who cares about the Son of Hamas? Please investigate and report on the cemetary desecration happening in Jerusalem. Sign the petition too: http://www.mamillacampaign.org
You must have feelings about this.
Neil Petig
This is the best ever program i have ever watched in CNN ->About the truth of life that everyone should know and accept-That Bible is THE TRUTH-which tells to love our enemies...
I bet his next book will be that he was confused so he went back to his roots and that Islam is the only true religion.
He is a traitor and has blood of his brothers on his hand
IGNORING BLOODY MURDER...
I continue to be disappointed by CNN's news coverage, particularly related to international affairs and even more so related to Africa.
I just saw an ad for Amanpour's report "Scream Bloody Murder". Many atrocities are mentioned except for the DRC which, at more than 5m, dwarfs all others since WWII put together. Even when CNN does cover the DRC, almost no mention is made of the inetegral role of Rwanda's current Tutsi-dominated apartheid regime in creating and sustaining the conflict, nor of their [lesser] erstwhile partner Uganda.
Both of these countries have received massive funding from the US, UK and other international donors, accounting for most of their state budgets. The architects and executors of the killing in the DRC [and the Rwandan Genocide/Civil War – since they also committed horrendous atrocities in that conflict] are now occupying senior positions in international organizations. Gen Nyamvumba, who ran operations in the Eastern DRC, is now UN Force Commander in Darfur. Joseph Mutaboba, former RDF Interior Minister, Director of the Foreign Ministry and all-round "Goebbels" of the regime, is now the Secretary-General's Representative in Guinee-Bissau.
When is CNN going to start waking up?
It is simple. Israel made him believe that he saved his dad's life by getting him arrested than being assassinated. Mr. Yousef has all the signs of "grandiose delusions". Just listen to him "I understand the God of Islam better than anybody else" "I am using Shein Beit/Musad (Isrel spy agencies) to do what I want", "I saved hundreds of lives including my Dad's"; Ramallah was not assassination ground because I was there".
He does not belong to an interview on CNN. He belong to a psychiatric institution for "Grandiose Delusions"... people like this are dangerous to them selves and to the society.
I did not hear you ask the SON of Hamas any questions about the facts in the book. Did you read it? HMMMMMMM !!
We are faced with an indoctrinated Hamas Terrorist who has turned his back on his own people because of the atrocities they commit in the name of Islam.
What do we sophisticated cynical Westerners do? We rush in to express dismay, suggesting that, nothwithstanding his putting his life on the line, he must have ulterior motives.
Both the Palestinians and the Israelis are victims of the Arab Despots self-serving agenda.
The US Administration, in concentrating its efforts on fighting the intimidated,indoctrinated, subversives, is ignoring
the Despot's Agenda of combating Democracy by financing both the Islamic Supremacy studies in the Madras and the arming of International Terrorism.
The Despots' agenda is to ensure the perpetuation of their own regimes by combating encroaching Democracy, in the Middle East.
Iran has as its objective to provide the compelling Atomic Power to assure the ascendancy of Sharia throughout the world.
If the Democratic forces don't get around to giving the Saudis/Iranians/Syrians an offer they can't refuse – Democracy should prepare for the ensuing Dark Ages.
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