“A lot of Americans are embarrassed by the fact that our leadership rarely represents our best interest and seems to prioritize the best interests of Israel in every instance”—Ana Kasparian.

A dark cloud is spreading across America, casting an ominous shadow of malice and mendacity, and threatening to split open perilous fault lines in the rich tapestry of the nation’s socio-political fabric.

One of the most disruptive figures driving this detrimental trend is media personality Ana Kasparian, a well-known public figure of Armenian origin (which she regularly invokes) and a frequent participant in popular talk-shows. A comely blonde, she is co-host of the TV program The Young Turks, an incongruous career choice, as originally, the term “Young Turks” is widely associated with the 1915-Armenian Genocide, particularly as she frequently raises this tragic event publicly.

Recently, Kasparian has adopted an acutely acrimonious attitude towards Israel—and is often afforded high-profile platforms to spew her vitriol.

For example, in a recent podcast of well-known political comedian/satirist, Bill Maher, she demonstrated the malevolence, ignorance, and double standards that underlie antisemitism, in general, and its current post-2023 manifestation, in particular.

Thus, Kasparian attempted to belittle the perils Israelis face from Palestinian stone-throwing, ignoring that over a dozen Israelis, including toddlers, perished as a result of Palestinian rock-throwers. Astonishingly, Kasparian suggested that, because of its purported nuclear capabilities, Israel has little to fear from Palestinian stones—apparently implying that Israel could always “nuke” the stone-throwers. Curiously, she dismissed the prospect of Palestinians ever using nuclear weapons if they ever possessed them, since this would make the land, they allegedly love, “unlivable”—raising the question of why that would not hold equally for Israelis!

“…if we had a nuke, we’d use it this morning…”

Interestingly, when Maher interjected that while Israel never used its nuclear capability, if the Palestinians had it, they would use it in a matter of seconds, Kasparian........

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