Megyn Kelly has slammed Queen Rania of Jordan after her fiery interview speaking out against Palestinian deaths and accused the queen of denying the deaths of Israeli babies.
The queen, who is of Palestinian descent, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that she was angry at 'glaring double standards' in coverage of Israeli and Palestinian deaths.
She accused the world's media of immediately accepting Israel's official line, but being skeptical about a Palestinian perspective.
'The CNN website at the beginning of the conflict reported a headline of Israeli children found butchered in an Israeli kibbutz, and when you read through the story, it's not been independently verified,' said Rania.
It was unclear what Rania was referring to, and there is no doubt that Hamas terrorists murdered babies, riddling their bodies with bullets.
Kelly reacted with disgust. 'Unbelievable. She's actually trying to spin the lie – the queen – that children weren't killed,' she said.
And it's just shocking to the Arab world,' she told veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour, before questioning whether babies had been 'butchered' by Hamas.
'I'm not arguing accuracy, Christiane, I'm arguing equivalence and double standards here,' she fumed.
Amanpour fired back that it had been verified both by CNN's reporters and other foreign media on the ground that Hamas was butchering babies, but stopped short of demanding a condemnation from the queen of the terror group's practices.
Amanpour did directly appeal for sympathy for Israelis and condemnation of Hamas, asking if Queen Rania 'accepted' that they had brought suffering on Palestinians.
Queen Rania made a brief concession, but then returned to criticizing Israel and its allies.
'These are the rules of war and they need to apply to everybody. Yes, there is the shock and there was the condemnation [towards Hamas]. But why isn't there equal condemnation to what is happening now?'
'Even if Israel defeats every last Hamas member, then what? Haven't they left a trail of terrible memories that will create a new generation of resistance that is fiercer and more violent?'
Amanpour began by asking the 53-year-old how she had felt since the Hamas attack of October 7 'as an Arab, as a Palestinian, as a mother, as a human being'.
Rania replied: 'I cannot begin to describe to you the depth of the grief, the pain and the shock that we are feeling here in Jordan.
She said her country, home to the world's largest Palestinian population, was 'united in grief, regardless of our origin'.
