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The HBO host railed against the media, saying 'They couldn't be more pro- Hamas'
'Hannity' panelists Ari Fleischer and Dan Senor discuss former President
Barack Obama's comments about the Israel-Hamas war.
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday took a moment to knock former
President Obama for comments he made this week about the Israel-Hamas war, saying he was "disappointed" at the prominent Democrat.
During a discussion with Pod Save America, the 44th president insisted
"all of us are complicit" for the escalated violence that has erupted in
the Middle East following the Oct. 7 attack against Israel.
"What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And
what is also true is that the occupation, and whatÆs happening to
Palestinians, is unbearable," Obama said. "If you want to solve the
problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And then you have to
admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some
degree."
On Friday, Maher accused Obama of pushing "moral equivalency" between the Jewish State and the Palestinian terrorist group.
"I must say I am struggling with people's moral equivalency still," Maher
said during a panel discussion. "I mean, Barack Obama, who has rarely disappointed me, did so this weekà His statement, I mean, it's not a
horrible statement, but he said, 'If you want to solve the problem, then
you have to take in the whole truth and then you have to admit nobody's
hands are clean.' Literally that's true, of course. But just giving two examples where this is I don't think a helpful statement at this moment.
First of all, the attack was only a month ago. A more savage attack that
we've ever seen in reverse. There's a big difference between collateral
damage and what Hamas did."
He continued, "Secondly, the Israelis are now on the four-hour pause for
people to get out. So people say æoh, wow, how big of them.Æ Ok, but it is
a war that the other side started! It's so interesting. When they fired
[at] Israel. It's a war. When Israel fires back, it's a war crime. Little crazyà Also, would Hamas do that? Would they give four-hour pauses? No, no pausing."
"And then Israel's heritage minister, was asked in an interview about
using a nuke on Gaza. And he said 'that's one of the possibilities.' He
was fired, not allowed in the Cabinet meeting anymore, disavowed by the
Prime Minister. Would that happen in reverse? So enough with the moral equivalencies, please," he added.
The HBO star reminded the panel to not forget the "Islamic fanaticism"
part of Hamas "because you're not supposed to talk about that anymore
because if you do, even how realistic it is, it becomes Islamophobic."
"But it's true!" Maher exclaimed. "The people in Hamas who kill their own people think they're doing them a favor because they're becoming martyrs. That's a different kind of situation to have to deal with that Israel has
that most people don't."
He also railed against the open letter signed by over 750 journalists
urging newsrooms to embrace terms like "apartheid" and "genocide" to
describe Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
"They couldn't be more pro-Hamas," Maher said. "They say they want the
newsroom to adopt words such as æapartheid.Æ I hear it all the time
anyway, It's wrong. And I hear ægenocide.Æ Again, wrong. Israel is not
trying to commit genocide. The other side- blatantly saying we would love
to commit genocide on you."
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