CNN reporter says Haifa is in the 'West Bank'

Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/4/19 | Marcy Oster

[Eleutheria5]

CNN’s Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour identified Haifa in northern Israel as being located in the 'West Bank,' the Jordanian name for Judea and Samaria, in introducing a Palestinian Arab human rights lawyer.

Amanpour made the gaffe on Wednesday during her global affairs interview program on CNN. She introduced human rights lawyer Diana Buttu to respond to an interview with Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, who discussed the as yet unveiled United States peace plan.

“Diana Buttu is a human rights lawyer and she joins me from Haifa, on the West Bank,” Amanpour said.

In a segment of the interview posted on the CNN website, the introduction is left off.

The clip of the introduction was tweeted by Hillel Neuer, executive director of the NGO UN Watch. He said in his tweet that “Haifa is not ‘on the West Bank.’ It’s in Israel. Where Jews & Arabs live together in harmony.”

Haifa, located in northern Israel, is the third largest city in Israel...

[faithhopecharity]

To have an anti- American news anchor is what CNN is all about. It’s deplorable, sickening really, and we never watch CNN because of this —

[hinckley buzzard]

Just to be fair, it is possible she meant that the Pali is from Haifa, but joining her on the West Bank.

Or maybe she doesn’t know where she is. Hard to tell. Amanpour is a rather obtuse dunce and not very articulate.

[dfwgator]

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