Lesley Stahl is 84 years old, almost 85, and she doesn’t need to prove herself or secure a legacy.
But there was on Sunday night’s “60 Minutes,” standing in the desolate heat of Israel’s West Bank, watching arm to arm combat between Israeli thugs and Palestinians who can’t get to their homes.
Then the thugs are fighting reasonable Jews, who are trying to help the Palestinians.
Stahl herself is Jewish and has covered the Middle East for decades. But her whole attitude in this extraordinary piece, her thought balloon is: Are you kidding? What the hell is this?
She tells a Jewish settler who’s running sheep all over Palestinian land that if this keeps up, Israel will lose American support. He responds they’ll find others to support them. I did a spit-take. Who? South Korea?
How this piece got onto “60 Minutes” is shocking. According to the Status newsletter, the fights between Stahl and the new CBS brass– Bari Weiss — were so bad Stahl almost quit the show. The whole segment crystallizes Israel’s problems now. Every Israeli voting in the upcoming election should see it.
