Dershowitz Blasts CNN for ‘Creating a Moral Equivalence’ After Palestinian Terror Attack

DERSHOWITZ: "The media bears some responsibility here. They consistently create a moral equivalence between terrorists who butcher innocent people and policies of a democracy like Israel. Even CNN, this morning, talked, without comment, about this being a revenge attack because of a hanging. Well, the hanging was a suicide by a Palestinian, at least according to Israeli officials."

COSTELLO: "But that's not what the Palestinians believe."

DERSHOWITZ: "I understand that. But they talk --" [crosstalk]

COSTELLO: "And going back to the Temple Mount, right --"

DERSHOWITZ: "Right."

COSTELLO: "Israel's restricting access to certain Palestinians, and that has ratcheted tensions up in the area. And a lot of --"[crosstalk]

DERSHOWITZ: "But they eliminated those restrictions. But to call it a cycle of violence fails to understand that this is a policy of Palestinian terrorists to attack Israeli civilians. It is not a cycle of violence."

COSTELLO: "Even though Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, condemned these attacks on the synagogue?"

DERSHOWITZ: "He condemned them along with condemning all other attacks. He really won't take the courageous stand of saying, terrorism is always wrong and it's part of the policy of Hamas and we have to stop inciting it and inspiring it. And when the media creates a moral equivalence between the two, it incentivizes violence."