While some in the media have swallowed their pride and given President Trump credit for securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that looks like it will lead to the end of the war, MSNBC’s co-host of The Weeknight, Symone Sanders-Townsend is still stuck in her ways. On Thursday’s show, Sanders-Townsend instead tried to credit the British and French governments, despite them having no role in the negotiations, because they recognized a Palestinian state and “gave speeches” at the U.N.
Sanders-Townsend declared, “I think things to look for are what do other partners say, right? Other partners in the region? What else do Western allies say? Remember, not a week ago, during—about a week and a half ago during UNGA, the UN General Assembly in New York, a number of Western allies recognized the Palestinian state, and they gave speeches. Everyone from President Macron to the U.K.—the prime minister of the U.K., so on and so forth.”
Only a liberal could think a U.N. speech counts for anything, but Sanders-Townsend continued, “This was monumental. Other countries obviously have done so previously well in advance in the past, but to have so many Western allies, major players recognize Palestine as a state was also a monumental piece in this. Notably, the United States did not participate in this. Noticeably, the United States did not participate, the president came out—”
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