Real Time host Bill Maher defended Israel on his show and criticized the “liberal media” for its “one-sided” reporting of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
“We’ve become this country now that we’re kind of one-sided on this issue,” Maher said Friday on the first episode of his show since testing positive for the coronavirus.
“One of the frustrations I had, while I was off, is that I was watching this war go on in Israel … and it was frustrating to me because there was no one on liberal media to defend Israel, really,” he added.
The host then opened the discussion up to his guest panelist, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who suggested the predominantly Jewish country had committed “possible war crimes” during its latest rocket attack in Gaza.
“Well, Gaza fired 4,000 rockets into Israel. What would you say Israel should have done instead of what they did?” Maher asked Kristof.
“I mean, international lawyers are pretty clear that they have a right to defend themselves … but there is a sense that their response was probably a war crime because they did not sufficiently avoid civilian casualties,” the guest answered.
“But they purposely put the rockets in civilian places,” Maher said, referencing the tendency of Hamas, a terrorist group that governs Gaza, to use schools and hospitals to house their weapons. “That’s their strategy.”
Read more at Washington Examiner.
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