CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour snidely guessed on Monday morning that Israeli hostages were “probably being treated better than the average Gazan” on Monday, hours after Hamas released the last 20 living hostages. PBS actually simulcasts this woman's nasty takes. 

Fifty years ago, an Amanpour type would have greeted American POWs coming out of Vietnam by suggesting our tortured POWs were "probably treated better than the average Vietnamese."

In a CNN News Central special, anchor Kaitlan Collins asked about Western journalists being denied access to covering Gaza, which cued Amanpour to lecture:

AMANPOUR: Kaitlan, you can imagine that's a question that I'm asking every day. And surely all of my colleagues, it is unconscionable that us, we have not been able to go in and help our Gaza colleagues tell the full story to the world  That is just something that I've never seen any democratic nation forbid, outside journalists, and I've asked every Israeli official who I've interacted with over the last two years, publicly and privately, to open the doors and let us in. And I pretty much can assure you that one, that once those I those doors are opened, it will be a scene of absolute, abject horror.

And I think for sure, people who start to talk to the hostages who have only just been released, will find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally. It’s been a terrible, terrible two years for them, because not only are they there — you know, they’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all of its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up. So that is a victory for the Israeli side.

What a horrible thing to say, to minimize what Israeli hostages have been through, when you're so throroughly anti-Israel. The idea that Amanpour and her leftist colleagues haven't driven a daily narrative of Israel's "genocidal" war is laughable. They were just denied the chance to make what they would consider more effective propaganda.

Amanpour then went further, that the Israeli hostages can return to a civilized worth of health care, unlike the Palestinians. In Gaza, "the medical facilities are destroyed. I mean, the idea that there's any mental health facilities that can help two million people is just a farce. There isn't, obviously, and they need to start eating to be able to survive, start drinking clean water." 

Earlier, Amanpour mourned what Gazans would find upon their return: “They are returning with some hope, only to find a complete and utter devastation. What I've been told is that even the bits that we have seen by virtue of iPhones and maybe some drone stuff over the last two years, do not paint the full picture of the utter, almost total extinction of Gaza.”