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CNN's Cuomo: 'Proportionality is a Big Part' of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Newbusters ^ | 07/15/2014 | Connor Williams

Posted on 07/15/2014 2:17:50 PM PDT by DFG

The ‘blame Israel’ rhetoric from the mainstream media has shown no signs of slowing down. This time, on the July 15 edition of CNN’s New Day, host Chris Cuomo and CNN contributor Peter Beinart decried the unevenness of the war, citing high casualties on the Palestinian side while pointing to virtually nonexistent casualties on the Israeli side of the conflict.

Cuomo naturally led off his interview of Beinart with this statement: “Proportionality is a big part of this story always when there's conflict. Israel obviously has the advantage militarily...Now, on the other side from the Ministry of Health there, close to 200 deaths, 1,400 injured, many women, children, civilians, schools supposedly damaged. It takes us to the issue of proportionality. How does that play here?” [MP3 audio here; video below]

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beinart; chriscuomo; cnn; cuomo; egypt; israel; judeophobia; peterbeinart; russia; waronterror
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Imagine what WWII would have been like if the Allies worried about "proportionality".
1 posted on 07/15/2014 2:17:50 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG
Here's some "proportionality" for ya, Como.


2 posted on 07/15/2014 2:21:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: DFG

Its a good thing the USA used a proportionate response against Japan and German...otherwise think of how bad it could have turned out...(such stupidity)


3 posted on 07/15/2014 2:22:10 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: DFG

Well, there are 13 million Jewish people in the world.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims.

1,600,000,000/13,000,000 = 123

I think it’s about right.


4 posted on 07/15/2014 2:22:56 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: DFG

It’s a big leftie/UN thing. You can only fight back with strength relative to your opponent.

Anyone making such an argument is not fit to hold any kind of public office. These people are crazy and will get us all killed.


5 posted on 07/15/2014 2:24:16 PM PDT by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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To: DFG

Yes, no fair that Israel has GPS-guided precision bombing and Hamas just has blind scuds... this is VERY unproportional.

Therefore, Israel from now on should launch its retaliatory missiles with GPS turned off. Just point in the general direction of Gaza to make sure it gets over the border (wouldn’t want a blind Israeli missile to hit an Israeli power station, now, would we...).

Then Israel would be retaliating proportionally to the Palies... (oh, and they would no longer be giving out pre-warnings, as that would be disproportionate too)


6 posted on 07/15/2014 2:25:06 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: DFG

They’re just taking sides in a war, but pretending to be pacifists, because their side is less competent. “Proportionality” should mean doing what it takes to win, and not much more than that.


7 posted on 07/15/2014 2:30:30 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Jewbacca

bttt


8 posted on 07/15/2014 2:31:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: DFG

Didn’t Ogabe himself spew some of that “Chicago Way” stuff about “If they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.” I personally think that Israel would be justified on incinerating a muslim country or two. I’ve chosen sides doncha see...just like the American left has.


9 posted on 07/15/2014 2:31:54 PM PDT by VR-21 (Next Stop, Willoughby.)
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To: DFG

“Proportionality” is what you argue for when your side is losing...


10 posted on 07/15/2014 2:36:20 PM PDT by machman
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To: DFG

proportionality has to do with physique, not war

you win wars by bringing disproportional force (or surprise tactics) to bear

you only screw around looking like complete idiots trying to “be proportional”

what a stupid farce!


11 posted on 07/15/2014 2:42:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: machman

Any thing keeping the lunatics that reside on the left from giving up their house, car, bank account to those that have proportionally less than them. I didn’t think so. Next time you hear one of these frauds spew out this garbage walk up and bitch slap him silly.


12 posted on 07/15/2014 2:43:25 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: DFG
That Peter Bienert is what is called a self hater and these Jews for the murder of Jews are even worse than the Islamic terrorists as they are almost spies working for the Jews' destruction.

And why is Peter Bienert taken seriously on anything? This is the idiot who had a long cyber correspondence with a Syrian lesbian who turned out to be some English anti-Semite who looked like Zach Galifianakis: Libz get real.

13 posted on 07/15/2014 2:48:11 PM PDT by Stepan12
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14 posted on 07/15/2014 2:56:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: DFG

I told an airforce E 7 in 2001 that my kids would still be fighting the muzzies because we wouldn’t go WWII on the problem. I cited Nagasaki and Dresden. Lost a friend that day. He thought i was bloodthirsty.


15 posted on 07/15/2014 2:56:48 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: DFG

Why do i have this feeling that if Hamas were to hit Tel Aviv and cause some serious damage and lots of death, a-hole Cumo wouldn’t bring up proportionality - in fact he would say the Jews had it coming.


16 posted on 07/15/2014 3:02:55 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: DFG

Chris Cuomo is expressing the same liberal Democratic, pro-terrorist thinking that kept Bill Clinton from eliminating the al-Qaeda threat following the numerous al-Qaeda-created incidents of his presidency, from the first World Trade Center bombing to the destruction of U.S. African embassies, and so on.

This ‘’proportionality’’ — we were so much stronger than al-Qaeda at the time — resulted in al-Qaeda’s second World Trade Center attacks, killing 3,000 of Chris Cuomo’s fellow New Yorkers.

And now Middle Eastern and North African terrorism, allowed to run rampant because Bill Clinton refused to kill it in its infancy, is being perpetrated by growing numbers of Islamic terrorist organizations, including Hamas, which is terrorizing Israel in its effort to destroy that country.

And Chris Cuomo wants Israel to stop fighting against Hamas because it’s so...so...disproportionate of them.

Now we know why MSNBC’s anemically rated ‘’Morning Joe’’ managed to trounce CNN’s virtually dead ‘’New Day’’ starring Chris Cuomo, 368,000 to 273,000 in total viewers during this year’s first quarter.


17 posted on 07/15/2014 3:09:05 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: DariusBane

Had I been President, I would have read on TV the declaration of war straight from the Koran and then overrun the entire Middle East from Pakistan and Libya to Saudi Arabia and erased every trace of Islam.


18 posted on 07/15/2014 3:11:08 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

We would have sunk a few German cargo ships with some subs.....and then went home.


19 posted on 07/15/2014 3:14:16 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: faithhopecharity
You know, if the UN feels put out by the actions of Israel, they can always send a bunch of Blue Hats to Tel Aviv and arrest Bibi.

I wonder if those blue hats would look like blueberries floating in the Mediterranean...

20 posted on 07/15/2014 3:20:24 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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