American Thinker : Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, aka Gerry Rivers before being Hispanic was fashionable, is out peddling his memoir, titled The Geraldo Show. On the Fox News program The Five, he was asked if he regrets any news story he reported, and his answer was shocking, particularly in the light of the border storming currently underway in Gaza.
Aaron Klein at Breitbart reports his comments:
I regret in 2002 backing down from backing the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel. The Second Intifada. Because I saw with my own eyes how. And I know how this is going to resonate very poorly with the people watching right now. But still, I have to tell you how I feel. I saw at firsthand how those people were. And now you said 14, 15 people killed in Gaza. Palestinians killed by the IDF forces. I saw what an awful life they live under constant occupation and oppression.
And people keep saying, “Oh, they are terrorists. Or they are this or they are that.” They are an occupied people and I regret chickening out after 2002 and not staying on that story and adding my voice as a Jew, adding my voice to those counseling a two-state solution. It is so easy to put them out of sight, out of mind. And let them rot. And be killed. And keep this thing festering. And I think a lot of our current problems stem from – that’s almost our original sin. Palestine and Israel. I want a two-state solution. I want President Trump to re-energize the peace process.
Readers may remember that the Second Intifada was a terror campaign launched by Yasser Arafat after he rejected a state in the West Bank and Gaza, a capital in East Jerusalem, and control of the mosques on the Temple Mount – basically 99% of what Palestinians wanted. More than a thousand Israelis were murdered, often brutally, in the Second Intifada.
Rivera’s gushing over the poor Palestinians ignores the fact that their standard of living is higher than that of Arabs in neighboring Egypt and Jordan, and that no Arab country wants to host them. And the reason why they are fenced off from Israel is the unrelenting campaign of terror launched from the West Bank and Gaza. WATCH
The actual title of the book is “Geraldo’s A Schmoe”. This clown is a major joke. After opening Al Capone’s “vault”, they should have shoved him in there and walled him up. And to think we’re blessed with having him based over here in NE O-ho-ho!
The professional ‘devil’s advocate.’
Affirmative action in television.
I’d request of John McCain that Geraldo be tucked up tightly beneath his arm when he leaves.
His first name is Whorealdo, that explains his mission in life.
His first name is Whorealdo, that says it all.
Hey, Whorealdo, there already has been a “2-state solution”. It’s called Israel and Jordan.
Jerry Rivera needs to be buried in an avalanche of folding chairs…..
He’s a disgusting, moronic, POS.
Golda Meir was right when she said: “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”!
If the Jews vaporized off the face of the Earth today, these Arabs would find someone else to hate. It’s what they do and that’s not even arguable! All you have to do is look through 1400 years of their history!
Jerry Rivera please exit with McCain……
TRF –
You just won a hundred Sturgebucks, payable in fully recyclable, non-tariff, cylindrical, aluminum vessels that may carry a slight whiff of ethanol.
You say it exactly right. It is plainly obvious. I wonder, from time to time, why people don’t see it. Then I’m reminded – “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Seems to sum up American universities rather succinctly.