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On State of the Union Sunday, when the panel started wringing its hands over U.S. strikes on Iran, Jennings steamrolled through rhetoric with the kind of blunt force that makes CNN actually worth watching sometimes. Well, at least in clips shared to social media.

What happened was that CNN Global Affairs Commentator Sabrina Singh tried to argue there was no imminent threat from Iran — a talking point that's become the go-to shield for anyone who wants to criticize the strikes without defending the regime outright. Jennings wasn't having it.

"I totally disagree with you about the threat not being imminent," Jennings said. "I spoke to senior — very senior — administration officials yesterday. They believe that the Iranian regime was about to fire ballistic missiles, not at the United States, but into U.S. military bases and civilian targets. They were going to attack Israel. They are already attacking other Gulf states."

Singh pushed back, claiming the national security apparatus had assessed that no imminent threat existed. Jennings, unimpressed, cut right through it. "My guess is, I have spoken to higher-ranking officials than you."
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"How long do you want to wait?" Jennings asked. "'Death to America'? 'Death to Israel'? How long do you want to wait? We waited 47 years. We have crossed every red line. Every president says they want to do something about it. Only Donald Trump had the guts to do it."

Then came the shot across the bow at Singh personally. "You said you're not shedding any tears for the regime, but you appear just not to like Donald Trump enough to be mad about it." There it is. Strip away the foreign policy posturing, and what you're left with is Trump Derangement Syndrome dressed up in national security language.

But the key point, of course, is that Trump isn’t starting another endless war, and Jennings made that point forcefully.

"Iran has been at war with us for 47 years. The central pillar of the regime is 'Death to America.' The other pillar is 'Death to Israel,' who is our ally. They have been at war with us, they have been killing American personnel and American soldiers for nearly five decades."

I don't know about always, but her fruitcakery seems to have come to light gradual over the past several years, especially since the 10/7/2023 attack on Israel. If Owens had kept her antisemitism hidden for unknown number of years, Israel's and the world's response to that attack might have been stronger than her ordinary prudence. Somehow, the Charlie Kirk assassination has lit off more of her crazy. It's kind of sad, as there are things she is good on. When she's right, she's right, but her crazy is sufficient to deter me from sorting out her good from her crazy.

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby
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One Israeli official said: "We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem."

The regime in Iran has now confessed that the IRGC mistakenly bombed an Iranian school yesterday, killing many children.

To all the legacy media and pro regime influencers who peddled your fake news:

 RETRACT and DELETE.