American Hummus

In an ABC news exclusive, Charlie Gibson and ABC news broadcast video footage of an attack several months ago on the US embassy in Syria. The attack was halted by Syrian security forces and the attackers were all killed. One lived for a short time but died in Syrian custody.

ABC news implies that the Syrian authorities knew of the impending attack and allowed it to go forward in order to appear to be on board with the “war on terror”.

Gibson states at the beginning “that many people are suspicious” but does not identify who those people are. He then brings on David Schenker from the Washington Institute on Near East Policy (WINEP) as the one expert with such suspicions. According to Juan Cole, professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History in the History Department at the University of Michigan, WINEP is a think tank of AIPAC representing the LIKUD which is an extremist right wing party in Israel.

The one US diplomat that ABC news does interview states that “it was a good day for the US and a bad day for terrorists” to describe the failed attack onthe embassy. This does not exactly concur with the conclusion of ABC news and David Schenker.

The suspicions may be entirely accurate but conveniently serve AIPAC and Israel’s right wing agenda. So the question for Charlie Gibson and ABC news is “do you have an objective US representatives who harbor such suspicions or just representatives of AIPAC?”