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The answer to John Oliver: Comedian Bill Maher opposes criticism of Israel
Frustrated that "no one in the media defends Israel", mocks "Bella Hadid who would not have held Gaza one day and wanted to go to Tel Aviv" and rejects the allegations against the IDF of harming the uninvolved.
The wild comedian hosted New York Times reporter Nicholas Christoph for a talk on "The Guardian of the Walls" and fired in all directions.
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Sunday, 30 May 2021, 16:51 Updated: 16:59
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The reaction to John Oliver's monologue: The successful comedian Bill Maher returned this week from a break with his program "Real Time" and referred to Operation The Wall Guard, in a conversation in which he took a clearly pro-Israel stance.
Maher hosted the New York Times journalist Nicholas Christoph for a talk on the subject, accusing the American media of being one-sided towards Israel, and attacking the "unity of the world" on their support for Gaza.
"It was so frustrating for me that there was no one in the liberal media to defend Israel," Maher said at the hearing, stressing that Hamas is firing from a civilian population in response to the claim that Israel harms the uninvolved.
"That's their strategy," he said.
Maher later denied the allegations that Israel "stole Palestinian land," and clarified: "This was never an Arab state. There was never a state called Palestine that was a distinct Arab state."
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The two argued over the issue, and among other things argued whether Israel had acted correctly in its response to the rocket fire. They began by agreeing that Arab citizens in Israel enjoy many rights, more often than in neighboring Arab countries. Christoph stressed that despite this, he "does not think it justifies the involvement of possible war crimes in Gaza."
Bill Maher
: Gaza fired 4,000 rockets into Israel, how do you think Israel should have responded instead to what it did?
Christoph
: International lawyers say quite clearly that Israel has the right to defend itself, they have the right to respond to military targets, but they would say that the reaction was probably a war crime because it did not avoid harming civilians enough.
Maher
: But they are deliberately placing the rockets in civilian areas, that's their strategy.
Christoph
: Similar to the Israeli Ministry of Defense being in a civilian area, both sides are doing it ... I do think Hamas is doing it, and it is clearly a Hamas war crime and clearly Hamas is involved in war crimes.
Maher
: When people go to war ... it was a normal war, people die in war, it's a terrible thing.
Christoph
: We have developed laws of war precisely to limit the inhumanity of war, we do not allow chemical weapons.
Maher
: But I do not know how else you react. What if Canada had fired 4,000 rockets into America or Mexico which is perhaps a better analogy, because we did take Mexican land, I would argue that Israel did not take anyone's land.
In addition, he wondered what he described as the support of progressives in Hamas.
"It's amazing to me that progressives think they're progressive in that they support this side," Maher said.
"In February this year, a Hamas court ruled that an unmarried woman could not move in the Gaza Strip without a man's permission. Really? Where are the progressives? Bella Hadid and her friends would shout at Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day."
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