The day after a precision strike attributed to Israel struck thousands of Hezbollah-issued pagers across Lebanon and Syria, the CBC radio program The Current, hosted by Matt Galloway, featured a 20-minute segment on the topic.

However, the program entitled: “Pager explosions wound thousands in Lebanon,” provided very little context about the nature of Hezbollah’s terrorist war against Israel, and offered next to no attempt at balance.

Listen to the full segment below:

Galloway’s first guest was William Christou, a freelance journalist based in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, who spoke about the impact of the coordinated strike.

But rather than pointing out the incredibly targeted counter-terrorism operation, which has been called by Canadian-American commentator David Frum: “the most precisely targeted anti-terrorist operation in the history of the world,” Christou spent the majority of his time painting Hezbollah terrorists with a highly sympathetic brush, all but entirely ignoring their violence and portraying them as victims.

Describing one video showing a suspected Hezbollah operative whose pager exploded, Christou said that the video depicts “a man who is shopping, and women next to him, they’re buying vegetables,” though it is noteworthy that in the footage, even the vegetables beside the man remained untouched, highlighting the remarkable precision of the strike.

Closer to the end of the interview, when asked about Hezbollah’s next potential attack, he said that “typically, they (Hezbollah) target military and state infrastructure” in Israel. However, this is simply untrue. Hezbollah has widely attacked Israeli civilian infrastructure in northern Israel, showing no distinction whatsoever between civilians and soldiers.

Galloway’s second guest in the program was Bessma Momani, a professor from the University of Waterloo and a past guest on The Current who has – for years – accused Israel of seeking to pursue war with Lebanon for political reasons.

During the interview, Momani, referring falsely to Israel’s “war on Gaza” (not on Hamas), attempted to frame Hezbollah as a restrained player, noting how some have claimed it is “restrained” and saying that it has sent fewer missiles into Israel than Israel has fired at Hezbollah over the last year.

However, that statistic is utterly irrelevant.

On October 8, one day after Hamas’ genocidal massacres in Israel, Hezbollah, its ally and fellow Iranian-backed terrorist group, began its year-long campaign of launching indiscriminate missile attacks into northern Israel, entirely unprovoked.

Momani claimed that “Hezbollah overall does not want to enter into war,” a curious statement given that it launched a war on Israel on October 8, and has continued firing rockets nearly daily since.

But for Momani, it is not Hezbollah, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, but Israel at fault, which she says “wants (the) war to continue, whether it’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, or in Lebanon.”

In the face of this blatant attempt at gaslighting, Galloway failed to challenge his guest, and did not remind listeners that it was Hezbollah, not Israel, which not only launched an unprovoked war a year ago, but which has openly genocidal goals: namely to destroy, not just Israel, but all the world’s Jews.

The September 18 edition of The Current downplayed Hezbollah as the target of a recent counter-terrorism operation, and portrayed the bloodthirsty terrorist group as the hapless and innocent victim of the perpetual and convenient villain, Israel.