US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman accuses the “liberal media” of giving prominent coverage to violent protests on the Gaza border in order to undermine US President Donald Trump’s decision to open the US embassy in Jerusalem.
In an opinion piece for Fox News, Friedman said the “apparent success of the embassy’s opening ceremony enraged the liberal media,” which found a “dark side to an otherwise uplifting story” in the Hamas-led clashes on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Friedman says those who died in Monday’s riots, which came as the US inaugurated its Jerusalem embassy, “were neither heroes nor the peaceful protesters they were advertised to be,” noting Hamas said the majority of those killed were its members.
“At least not before the liberal media entered the scene. Desperate for a narrative to discredit the president’s decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem, they broadcast the opening ceremony on a split screen simultaneously displaying the Gaza riots, and condemned the insensitivity of the ceremony’s participants to the carnage that seemed next door on TV but which in actuality was occurring 60 miles away,” he says.
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