Bill Maher Blasts Palestinians For Believing In ‘Myths,’ Being Hypocrites

[Ubiquitous]

Comedian Bill Maher slammed the Palestinians during his most recent broadcast
for believing in myths, having unrealistic expectations, being hypocrites,
and for expecting Israel to negotiate with them when they are genocidal.

Maher made the remarks during his “New Rule” segment toward the end of his
“Real Time” show on HBO Friday evening.

“I know it’s supposed to be that magical time of year, but maybe what we all
really need right now is a good dose of realism,” he said. “I see a lot of
Nativity scenes when I’m out as you always do before Christmas, and I can’t
help thinking about where that manger really is. It’s in the West Bank, on
Palestinian lands controlled by the Palestinian Authority. In 1950, the
little town of Bethlehem was 86% Christian. Now, it’s overwhelmingly Muslim.
And that’s my point tonight, things change. To 2.3 billion Christians, there
can be no more sacred site than where their Savior was born, but they don’t
have it anymore. And yet, no Crusader army has geared up to take it back.
Things change, countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the
Ottoman Empire for 400 years. But today, an ottoman is something you put
under your feet.”

“The city of Byzantium became the city of Constantinople became Istanbul,” he
continued. “Not everybody liked it, but you can’t keep arguing the call
forever. The Irish had the entire island to themselves, but the British were
starting an empire and well, the Irish lost their tip. They blew each other
up over it for 30 years. But eventually everybody comes to an accommodation,
except the Palestinians.”

Maher noted that people throughout history have been forced to relocate and
that people can “make the best of it.”

“After World War II, 12 million ethnic Germans got shoved out of Russia and
Poland and Czechoslovakia because being German had become kind of unpopular,”
he said. “A million Greeks were shoved out of Turkey in 1923. A million
Ghanaians out of Nigeria in 1983, almost a million French out of Algeria in
1962, nearly a million Syrian refugees moved to Germany eight years ago. Was
that a perfect fit? And no one knows more about being pushed off land than
the Jews, including being almost wholly kicked out of every Arab country they
once lived in.”

“People get moved and yes, colonized,” he continued. “Nobody was a bigger
colonizer than the Muslim army that swept out of the Arabian desert and took
over much of the world in a single century. And they didn’t do it by asking.
There’s a reason Saudi Arabia’s flag is a sword. Kosovo was the cradle of
Christian Serbia, then it became Muslim. They fought a war about it in the
’90s, but stopped, they didn’t keep it going for 75 years. There were deals
on the table to share the land called Palestine in 1947, 1993, 1995, 1998,
2000, 2008, and East Jerusalem could have been the capital of a Palestinian
state that today might look more like Dubai than Gaza. Arafat was offered 95%
of the West Bank and said, ‘No.’ The Palestinian people should know, your
leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies, are
not doing you any favors by keeping alive the ‘river to the sea’ myth. I
mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: nowhere.”

“It’s one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion
economy, the world’s second largest tech sector after Silicon Valley, and
nuclear weapons. They’re here,” he added. “And what the media glosses over
is, it’s hard to negotiate when the other side’s bargaining position is you
all die and disappear. I mean, the chant ‘from the river to the sea.’ Yeah,
let’s look at the map. Here’s the river. Here’s the sea. Oh, I see, it means
you get all of it. Not just the West Bank, which was basically the original
U.N. partition deal you rejected because you wanted all of it and always
have, even though it’s indisputably also the Jews’ ancestral homeland, and so
you attacked, and lost. And attacked again, and lost. And attacked again, and
lost. As my friend Dr. Phil says, ‘How’s that working for you?'”

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Let's go Brandon!

[Isaac]

I have given up on Bill Mahr. He is obviously an anti-muslim bigot.
Anti Jewish is bad but it seems that anti-Muslim is perfectly OK. He
is a big fan of ethnic cleansing. Because it happens is no reason for
it to continue. Jews were evicted from some Muslim countries in
retaliation for Israrl evicting 70,000 Palestinians from homes their
families have lived in for 100s of years.

He is upset that Palestinians want all of Palestine. But the fact
that the main principle of Zionism is All of Palestine should be a
Jewish homeland and we don't give a damn about all the people who are
currently living there. With all the Jewish West Bank settlements,
Isreal is working to rid Palestine of all the Palestinians. Why are
Israeli settlers who attack Palestinian settlements not terrorists?

I have trouble having sympathy for the Israelies who were killled or
captured by Hamas when over 18,00 Palestinian men, women and children
have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed. IDS has
claimed that only about 1/3 of those killed were Hamas fighters. They
are killing 2 civilians for every Hamas member. Does anyone care?

Americans (I am an ethnically Jewish American) obviouly supports
Israel not because it is a democracy (for Jews only)
but because it justifies their treatment of Native Americans.

In biblical times the Jews invaded their "ancestral homeland" with
instructions to kill every Caananite man, woman and child in Jerico
and elsewhere. So I guess the situation can be worse.



On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:30:56 -0500, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net>
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