Talk show host Bill Maher issued a scathing monologue to Palestinians, saying Israel is going “nowhere.”
Maher dedicated a segment of his show Real Time with Bill Maher to an analysis of what he believed Palestinians’ chances were in achieving their goal of establishing a state “from the river to the sea.” It has been over two months since Hamas launched its surprise attack against Israel, which, according to Maher, is a tough opponent as the Jewish state is “one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion economy” with “the world’s second-largest tech sector to Silicon Valley.”
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“The Palestinian people should know your leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies are not doing any favors by keeping alive the ‘river to the sea’ myth. I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: nowhere,” Maher said to applause from the in-studio audience. “They’re here; they like their bagel with a schmear; get used to it.”
During his monologue, Maher acknowledged that it was “unjust that even a single Arab family was forced to move upon the founding of the Jewish State” but also “not rare” for people to be forced to move. The host listed other groups who were displaced, such as ethnic Germans from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, Greeks from Turkey, Ghanaians from Nigeria, French from Algeria, and Syrian refugees from Syria.
“History is brutal, and humans are not good people. History’s sad and full of wrongs, but you can’t make them unhappen because a paraglider isn’t a time machine. People get moved and, yes, colonized. 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,” Maher said. “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.”
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Maher finished his segment by encouraging Palestinians to “just get serious” rather than insist on receiving all of the West Bank and Israel. This is alluded to by the slogan: “From the river to the sea.”
The U.S. vetoed the call from the U.N. Security Council for a ceasefire in Gaza last week.
