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    17 days ago

    From the article:

    Myska tells Avi Hyman, an Israeli government spokesperson, that:

    What the Iranians, of course, have said is that this is a retaliatory strike after Israel struck its consulate in Syria. Now we all know that the way diplomacy works is consulates and embassies are considered sovereign territory of the government that is concerned. What Israel did by taking that action against Iran was taken was escalate to what is already an incredibly fragile situation.

    Hyman calls her expression of verifiable fact:

    an outrageous framing of the reality.

    Myska’s remarks are provable: Israel did strike an Iranian consulate, which under international law should have diplomatic immunity from such attacks.

    O’Brien insisted that Myska was not fired because of her stance on Israel but implied that it was due to a low level of listeners: