PBS Portrays Egypt's World Cup Team as Beacon of Hope in Gaza, Skips Tight Border
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PBS Portrays Egypt's World Cup Team as Beacon of Hope in Gaza, Skips Tight Border

The PBS News Hour’s eternal devotion to the Palestinian cause and anti-Israeli hostility post October 7 massacre was all too apparent on Friday night’s edition, as the News Hour found a new angle to promote the corrosive lie of Israeli forces as vengeful child-maimers. Reporting from Gaza, Nick Schifrin, who has contributed many of those Israel-hostile stories, had the gall to hail the country and World Cup team of Egypt without mentioning inconvenient facts about how the Egyptian government truly feels about the Palestinian cause.Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: ….we have a look at how the world's most popular sporting event is being marked in a place where celebration has become rare. As Nick Schifrin reports with producer Shams Odeh, the tournament has helped Palestinians in Gaza find moments of connection and hope.Schifrin tugged heartstrings from the start.Nick Schifrin: Thousands of miles from soccer's biggest stage is a landscape of crushed concrete, where children play on the remnants of war, and one child's dream is to sit atop the soccer world and one day win the World Cup. Ten-year-old Mohammed Shaaban might have lost both legs and his right hand in an Israeli airstrike, but not his ability to dribble or love for soccer. Inside the family's canvas home, his mom is his teammate, every pass proof the war has not claimed everything.Then he noted how Palestinians were getting hope through Egypt’s performance, and the country’s supposed support for the Palestinian cause.PBS's Nick Schifrin in Gaza: "...the beautiful game offered a brief escape...especially when their Arab neighbor Egypt played....a shared celebration, a reminder there is still a wide world beyond the rubble...Egypt publicly dedicated its victories to Palestinians." pic.twitter.com/Hg7MLjo9tA— Clay Waters