TV anchor Chris Cuomo slammed progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for denouncing Israel over its use of exploding pagers to kill Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
The NY Post reports Cuomo, the host of his primetime news talk show on the NewsNation cable channel, called out the “Squad” member after the New York Democrat accused Israel of “clearly and unequivocally violat[ing] international humanitarian law.”
“Why don’t you mention the pagers were on members of a terrorist organization that is committed to destroying Israel?” Cuomo shot back.
Why don't you mention the pagers were on members of a terrorist organization that is committed to destroying Israel? Would you have been defending al qaeda when America was lighting them up in Iraq? https://t.co/WFxv8EJdYk
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) September 19, 2024
“Would you have been defending al Qaeda when America was lighting them up in Iraq?”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Cuomo, noting that a 9-year-old Lebanese girl was one of two children killed in the pager attacks.
“What did the 9 year old girl who was killed do to deserve that, Chris?” she wrote.
On his Friday show on NewsNation, Cuomo said Ocasio-Cortez was “dead wrong” about her criticisms of Israel — particularly over whether planting explosives inside pagers is a violation of US regulations.
“One, Israel is not one of the United States, so they don’t follow our laws or rules,” Cuomo said.
“Second, if the representative was suggesting by that comparison that the United States should therefore not support Israel, good luck with that.”
Cuomo said the Pentagon’s Law of War Manual prohibited the “indiscriminate” use of booby traps.
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