In Defense of Israel | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Published on June 5, 2021

Nicholas Kristof and James Carville join Bill Maher to discuss Israel’s latest conflict with Palestinians in Gaza.

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274 comments

  • M AC 3 years ago

    Israel ….Israeli …yup it fits . Lets try Jerusalem …Jewish …way closer than Palestinian . Whats the beef?

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  • Scott B 3 years ago

    The anti religious guy defending religion. The applause button is heavy as fuck

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  • Malik Samari jones 3 years ago

    I think Bill might be forgetting the fact that the international court of justice explicitly ruled that it is illegal for Israel to claim property as part of war – that’s why the international community is so dead set against these settlements and house destructions, and why Israel is ABSOLUTELY an occupier.

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  • NepaliYuva 3 years ago

    Agree and disagree

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  • skux 01 3 years ago

    I am appalled. Rockets are the consequence of the Palestinian genocide there. This was a rare display of an incompetent Bill Maher. THIS IS SAD FOR A REAL BILL MAHER. If you push people into such hopelessness, that is what you get. Terrorism was literally invented there for exactly this reason.

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  • Rm18082 3 years ago

    Finally someone says the truth.. im not even on the part of israel that much, but painting hamas as the good boys is insane

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  • Andres Cabezas 3 years ago

    So because Hamas is a warcrime organization Israel (with far more money) should act the same.. This is the point of Bill. Let’s go back to 1967 frontier and we will see who is the real warcrime organization…

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  • Martin Yan 3 years ago

    the history of the middle east is not written in religious myth bill.
    you of all people should know that.

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  • Amit Maitra 3 years ago

    So the atheist Bill Maher thinks “Jews” have “right” to the land because the God of Moses said so? He is seemingly as knowledgeable about the history as he is about covid!

    If they have right to something they last had any semblance of control in 65 AD, the United States should immediately give the land back to the native americans and leave!

    Seems like – just like many others, you dislike Muslims! That is the driving force of your arguments – not facts.

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  • Commander In Sleep 3 years ago

    Why would Bill defend Israel I thought far left wingers were anti Semitic nowadays?

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  • V 3 years ago

    Almost 600 people disagree and think they can learn history from Instagram

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  • Josh Richardson 3 years ago

    I’m sick of this guy playing the ‘millennial’ card all the time, like it’s impossible that anyone under the age of 40 could possibly have a grasp on history or geopolitics because we’re all brain-dead social media zombies.
    I agree with a lot of his opinions, and even though here I don’t, I’m unsubscribing because his delivery and ideology are starting to sound more like a generational product than that of free thought.

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  • Johnny Grafx 3 years ago

    Yet another complex topic that Bill boils down to “its those darn kids and their social media”

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  • Lala MDeppegg 3 years ago

    Thank you for putting some light on the subject. I need more. , More detail more history. Thanks.

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  • mightypensword 3 years ago

    Can’t say I agree with a lot of what bill said this time..

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  • John Brown 3 years ago

    Bill your tribalism is showing

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  • Monaco Dweller 3 years ago

    Bill, let people talk

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  • Crush Wine 3 years ago

    As independent I disagree with you Bill about this. Isreal is killing innocent people and I can’t with them anymore

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  • Martin Bruhn 3 years ago

    I think what Bill doesn’t get is, that nobody takes the side of Hamas, but rather points out, that while this conflict is bad for everybody, it is disproportionatly bad for palestinians, who suffer two-fold, from the conflict itself and of the Hams tyranny. If you look t the bodycount, there are so much more palestinians than israelis and I don’t want to say, that there should be more israelis who die, there should be less casualties. But Israel has clearly the agency to respond in a way to hamas agressions in a way, that less palestinian civilians die. Hamas isn’t acting in favor of the palestinian people, the palestinian people are disenfranchised twofold.

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  • sham sublic 3 years ago

    Such one sided bullshit

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  • Far Que 3 years ago

    Bill Hannity

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  • Ahmed Magdy 3 years ago

    Not watching u again

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  • Josh Vanguard 3 years ago

    Think you need study up a bit further ….

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  • Far Que 3 years ago

    Bill rents his brain out to Sean Hannity on this one

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  • Loïc Desiron 3 years ago

    There has been an unequal coverage in the us for the last 80 years, dude. It’s not a war when you are battling not a nation but an open air refugee camp.

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  • John King 3 years ago

    Let’s see if I got this right. The God of a universe 13.5 billion years old with trillions of stars fell in love with a tribe of Bronze age shepherds and decided they were his chosen people. He explained to them that, oops, he fouled up when he designed the human body. Because of his incompetence it would be necessary for them to use surgery on their male children, he had forgotten how to modify DNA so that their kiddies would just naturally not grow a foreskin. Then 2,000 years ago he changed his mind again so that they were no longer the chosen people but all you needed to be on his favorites list was to worship his son. Not withstanding his gifts to them as the chosen people are still valid and they are still entitled to move in on people and steal their homes and property.
    If that makes sense to you you are dumb enough to admire Trump.

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  • Rick Simon 3 years ago

    John Oliver explained it very well. But Bill Maher just gets a hard-on every time someone mentions Netanyahu.

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  • Marcus Heller 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is the worst hypocrite, he is pathetic on this subject and to be honest on many subjects he had discussed. I am shocked for someone who majored in History and English in one of the most prestigious schools in the nation that he has no clue on History. so let us go over the facts:
    1. the dispute is not between Jews and Arabs as Maher is continuously stating, it is between Zionists and Palestinians who happened to be Muslims, Christians and Jews ( Samaritan Jews who are incidentally not recognized and hated by Zionists). by the way there are non Zionist Jews who are against Zionism and the practices of Israel.
    2. Civilization on this land dates back to 15000 years with cities which still existing since 12000 BC, that is way before kingdom of Israel. the land is inhabited by the Kenites through out history.
    3. The facts are being purposely mixed over here, we have 3 words which is misused to deliberately confuse the masses, the words are Jews, Israelites and Zionists. to educate Maher on the subject, they all different, Jews came from Judaism and it was giving to those who believed in the teaching of Moses. Israelites are those who were during the kingdom of Israel, and Zionist is a movement created in 1895 in the pursuit of finding a home land for Israelites.
    4. maher stupid stand on the legitimacy of Israel is a profound hypocrisy. Maher is anti religion, however on this subject is pro religion, Israel claims it’s legitimacy from the bible, however there is nothing factual on the ground to prove that other than what is written in the Bible. there are 3 ironies here, one that Zionist, Israelites and Jews do not believe or recognize the Bible. two, the book of the Jews bans Jews from creating a country. three, Maher is anti religion.
    5. On the issue of Israel being a democracy and the way they treat Arabs citizens, did any one including Maher read the constitution of Israel? the country is a Jewish Zionist States which is their to protect and take care of Zionists’Jews, Arabs citizens happened to be there and they must put up with the situation and reflect that Israel is a democracy when in fact its a fake democracy.
    6. On the issue of Hamas, Maher is a big liar on this subject. this is not a war between 2 countries. there are indigenous inhabitant of the land who are fighting for their existence, their rights, their dignity and their land against an occupier which is ruthless, racist, criminal, and many other adjectives. if what Maher’s lies about Hamas is true, still it does not matter, they have the right to fight the occupier according to the charters of the UN and international laws.

    I am sure Bill Maher is smarter than the stupidity he shows on his program or may be not, however he chooses to be this way for financial gains. he basically sells his soul to the highest bidder.

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  • Solomon W 3 years ago

    Its a Muslim land when Caliphate Omar conquer it and FOREVER.

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  • hebame164 3 years ago

    Aha.. so Jews have been there all this time and there were no Arabs? Really Bill Maher? is that what your history books tell you?? In 1948, millions were kicked out of their houses in Palestine and became refugees in other countries like Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and some in Egypt. Till this day, people who have been in Syria and Lebanon, born in these countries and their parents born in these countries, do not have a passport or citizenship from these countries. They are not a citizen of these countries, and definitely not a citizen of Palestine either, and thus you are considered without citizenship. They hold no passport, they can only have a travel document from UNESCO for their entire life. Those in Lebanon are not allowed to even work in Lebanon or own land there even if they are 3rd generation born there! While on the other hand, if you are a Jewish from ANY PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD, you get an Israeli passport and you have the right to go back to Israel. Does that make sense to you??

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  • Rick Simon 3 years ago

    Maher is too smart to get this wrong. That means he is spreading lies about the Israel-Palestine conflict on purpose. He is a demagogue.

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  • John Preston 3 years ago

    Israel needs to return all the land they stole…
    from the Palestinians…
    Americans too would fire rockets…
    at a people who stole any of our land…
    and tried to push us aside…
    and your “Jewish history” needs some looking at Bill…

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  • Hadi Ranahosseini 3 years ago

    Israel needs to send Don, BiBi and SiSi to do a SWORD dance with MBS.
    That will scare IRAN.

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  • Rolando Arco 3 years ago

    Yes, but the movement of israeli settlers on the West Bank is a shameless land grab driven by religious lunacy

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  • TMP TMP 3 years ago

    I get your point but some statements weare incorrect.
    African American speak English but they aren’t decendent from the British.
    Palestinians, Syrien and all the other people speak Arabic but they are ethnically as native as the Israelis.

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  • Abdul Hakeem 3 years ago

    I didn’t realize how ignorant I am

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  • Todd Barcroft 3 years ago

    Please ask why they fired those rockets. ,this is always left out… illegal land grabs

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  • Manu Di Soza 3 years ago

    Glad someone finally said it.

    Somehow the Palestinians, the same people who refused all possible peace treaties, who still prohibit people from freely choosing their religion, persecute “loose” women and jail/kill gays are the innocent ones.

    Thank you Bill!

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  • Logic Police 3 years ago

    Bill is a legend on this issue! Who knew he was so correct on Israel!

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  • Cheryl R Leigh 3 years ago

    Maher still conflating Israeli war crimes and human rights violations with anti-Semitism I see. #FreePalestine

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  • Ken Mahoney 3 years ago

    Bill you got this one all wrong.

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  • Joe Malonski 3 years ago

    Bill is Right

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  • xirfan 3 years ago

    Bill’s made up his mind on this one. Shame.

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  • Anirudh Garg 3 years ago

    Settlements are theft

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  • Dallas G 3 years ago

    Bill maher once again proves some liberals have integrity. Hope for humanity partially restored.

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  • Joe Malonski 3 years ago

    Was called Palestine for a Reason.

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  • Joe Malonski 3 years ago

    Arafat was offered 90 percent he rejected it.

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  • Henry Goodson 3 years ago

    “More rights to Arab citizens”
    They’re still not considered full citizens. Meanwhile any ethnic Jew anywhere in the world can move there and gain full citizenship.

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  • deliman7203 3 years ago

    There’s too much Hatred on both sides for there ever be peace in Israel. Generations are now growing up knowing only War.

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  • David Wood 3 years ago

    More “get off my lawn” nonsense. Try telling this to the people losing their hones violently. Try telling the Palestinians they are the aggressors when they are the invaded. Why is Egypt’s treatment of the oppressed used to justify the killing of hundreds of people?

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  • Carlo Pasquier 3 years ago

    Obviously Bill Maher has a pony in the race.

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  • m j 3 years ago

    Israel has signed Oslo agreement but they breach it. A witness of what they are

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  • HitchSlap 3 years ago

    Sounds like bill gets his history from a CrackerJack box…

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  • B. A 3 years ago

    congrats Bill… you just condoned ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. very progressive indeed

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  • AngryNotSoOldHippy 3 years ago

    There is no defending baby killers, terrorists, the United States funds these right wing terrorist monsters,

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  • HitchSlap 3 years ago

    Bill sounds like more of an Israel hack than the professional pro-Israel guy.

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  • Matthew Bittenbender 3 years ago

    But no one here is discussing is that the history of the land is now irrelevant. The decisions of former leaders is now irrelevant. The only tagline since 1947 that remains true is that both peoples have a right to exist without persecution. Both groups have alternatively been oppressors and both have alternatively committed atrocities. The mentality that needs to change right now is that the ruling hardliners for each group need to stop pretending that the land is their exclusively. It will be impossible to draw lines for reasonable contiguous boarders because they share so many mutual religious and cultural ties to many regions that they will never be able to agree on it. When both sides can agree that Israel/Palestine is not the property of either side then they can move forward.

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  • Mohamed El Marzgioui 3 years ago

    Bill maher read the history people in steadof quoting pro israel dummies ! and inviting a panel that agrees with you on this issue i used to be a fan but you really suck !

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  • Blatherskite 3 years ago

    3:24 “What if Canada fired 4000 rockets into America?” C’mon, Bill. That only works if you willfully omit the entire preceding Act in which (going with your analogy) America would’ve been illegally occupying and colonizing Canada in direct contravention of international law, pushing the border further and further north. In that analogy, America would absolutely deserve 4000 Canadian rockets up it.

    If you chose to join the story of WW2 at D-Day then then you could say the nasty allies “started it” on the poor innocent fascists who were just chilling on the beach. But that would be intellectually dishonest. History doesn’t work that way. You don’t get to choose your preferred day to “start” the story and blank-slate everything that went before, just because it suits your argument to do so.

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  • Mohamed El Marzgioui 3 years ago

    A liberal who has a republish hawkish stand when it comes to israel

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  • Ekto3000 3 years ago

    Remember Israel created Hamas.

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  • Aditya 3 years ago

    In this I want to dislike Bill Maher and like Nicholas Kristof.

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  • CeltBear333 3 years ago

    God is not a real estate agent Bill

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  • The Traveling Man 3 years ago

    Someone steals your land then tell you are a criminal trying to protect it by any means necessary. Khazars are NOT Jew or Semitic. Khazars are European so Germany killed six million of them give them a part of Europe not Palestine.

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  • Zach Shoup 3 years ago

    bro how do you manage to be wrong on every single point

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  • Zach Shoup 3 years ago

    how much do they pay you to say every establishment talking point in the book

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  • Aden Hawk 3 years ago

    Arab Israelis and the ultra orthodox are the only two groups exempt from mandatory military service in israel, and yet so many high ranking officials in the IDF who have served for decades are Arab Israelis. Arabs and Palestinians are far from expendable to Jews.

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  • Daniel McMahon 3 years ago

    Great to hear the other side for once. Thank god for open debate and Real Time for some real talk with adults!

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  • Zach Shoup 3 years ago

    bro how you gonna pick and choose which UN rulings count? They ruled it an illegal occupation numerous times lmao

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  • Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot 3 years ago

    Bill just going full fledged Zionist makes so much sense to me. White liberals and conservatives are just two sides of the same coin. The same way he defends the apartheid state of Israel is parallel to his silence on atrocity committed against Black and Brown people here in America. Classic white liberalism. Israel and weed and religion, passionate AF. Those things matter to him. The rights and status of darker skinned people who aren’t the default of an area they have been historically mistreated in…meh, what about the whites? Zero percent surprising.

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  • Hatte! 3 years ago

    If Isreal didn’t have US breathing down their neck they wouldn’t give a damn about making sure their Arab citizens are treated well.
    Sorry, treated, “””well”””

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  • Jose A Rodas 3 years ago

    Thanks for that bit if sense in the media. Unfortunately, I don’t see this video being very popular.

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  • Mike Mucher 3 years ago

    Thank you Bill for standing up to Nicholas. You are explaining reality. And thank you for standing up for Israel. The arguments coming out of the woodwork from anti Israel groups are full of disinformation.

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  • stanley bastien 3 years ago

    C’mon bill your not that stupid. Watch vice news

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  • Renee Smokey 3 years ago

    And NATIVES say, “Bill teach the TRUTH…usa is NOT a country…it is a FN COMPANY and We are STILL HERE…WITH FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS!!!!!

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  • Haifa Rammaha 3 years ago

    Bill Maher why not learn history from Ilan Pappe who’s Israeli historian. Bill Maher should declare himself as a Zionist .

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  • consciously 3 years ago

    Why does the applause sign flash every time Bill says a sentence? Really cheapens the discourse

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  • Renee Smokey 3 years ago

    Like Caucasians…..from Cauca Asia….yup stinks already!!!

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  • J MG 3 years ago

    The dislike button not having any data makes for quite conspicuous absence, specially for this video

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  • yaser sattari 3 years ago

    “people die in wars” Mr liberal seems to think that voting is a liberal principle, but fucking living is not.

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  • Simon Snaps 3 years ago

    Bill’s take seems a little half baked on this though he raises some good points. I’m quite impressed by Nicholas Kristof, though, and keen to check out his work.

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  • 3331CUR4ntSaturnVI E. Javier 3 years ago

    f/o “Criticizing the policies of the apartheid state of Israel is not anti-semitism. And no amount of hiding behind what happened in World War 2 is going to change that.”

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    defend israel..from what..bill

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    PALESTINE DESERVE THERE LAND BACK

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  • Bassel Al Hindi 3 years ago

    1:07 In defence of the indefensible, of course Israel treats its Arabic citizens better because when Israeli officers come to kick you out of your ancestors’ home, they displace you and leave you to starve homeless instead of murdering you quickly like they do in Syria when the government wants to let Alawites illegally occupy your house. Israel does not send tanks to run over you if you protest against the government, as they do in Egypt, but only shoots your child repeatedly while he is in your arms and leave you to remember him (Does Muhammad al Durrah ring a bell?). However, let the wonderful ‘better’ treatment of Israeli Arabs aside, it is the treatment of the non-Israeli Arab populations in Gaza and other places in the country that is a bit worrisome. Well, at least Israel gives a five-minute bombing warning before crushing your house with you in it, while Syrian troops just do it with no warning: The English media has to stop this blatant bias in favour of Israel and stop this charade of a war between Israel and an imaginary sophisticated Palestinian power when Gaza and all Arab areas in Israel are clearly prisons with walls and guards; and the country practices the ugliest form of apartheid on the planet shamelessly on daily basis! Israel is made up of predominately Jewish Russian and European colonialists who began occupying the country after lobbying the British Empire to strategically segment the lands of the Ottomans in Africa from the ones in Asia. Very few Israeli citizens are even related to the Israelites who lived once in Palestine for a very limited amount of time with other large populations of older citizens, the Phoenicians and the Canaanites, which the Jewish holiest books indicate that they lived in the land before them and whose sons are the Palestinians.

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    AND WHO CARES IF THEY TREAT THEM BETTER..
    THE KILL

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    they took over people houses whay is no one talking that

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    the real jews..bill..not the white ones…

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    and lets talk about after 1947

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    oh i forgot bill …

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    yes its alot morew

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  • damez mystery 3 years ago

    where is the clapping for jaroah

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  • Ali Mojabi 3 years ago

    What a fucking dinosaur. “Kids dont learn history from IG.” Maybe not, Bill. But we sure as hell can see the Isreali Nazi’s committing genocide on the Palestinians, on IG. “People die in war.” Yes, little children get their lives snubbed out in War, right?

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  • evanholley 3 years ago

    Bill skips over the fundamental question: Why are jews owed a nation?.

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  • Coral Titan 3 years ago

    Bill never disappoints!

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  • Mauricio Torres 3 years ago

    I love bill Maher. But never had I seen him display such levels of ignorance. I am ashamed to have actually gone through this whole video.

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  • davenalford74 3 years ago

    They are getting attacked because they’re not supposed to be there are supposed to be in kazakistan Turkey where they came from

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  • I Am Unicorn Gamer 3 years ago

    Thank god a liberal person has FINALLY said this.

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  • Виталий Дмитриевич Бутерин 3 years ago

    Saying that Arabs in Israel have it great because they can serve in parliament is like saying Blacks in America have it great because Lebron James is a millionaire

    PS: LOL! I’m sorry I just had to add: Did this idiot just say that Judaism predates the existence of the Arab race?!?

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  • OBD 3 years ago

    I was shouting at the TV while this was on. Clearly Bill Maher is too old for Instagram BC he missed all the horrible footage of dead children and insane devastation.

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  • ScootMagoot46 3 years ago

    Strawman arguments nonstop by Bill here. He has really been annoying lately.

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  • digitizerob 3 years ago

    Bill Mayer showing himself to be the institutional racist he’s always been.
    Hope they cancel this bigoted dinosaur.

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  • Katherine Hancocks 3 years ago

    If you think I am in the pocket of “big conservative”… no.

    They often talk about “natural rights” or “god-given rights”… and I am a Christian who believes that Jehovah did design us to have some rights in the beginning but we have fallen.

    When the wheel was invented the guy, maybe a woman, who invented it did not say to his neighbour who copied him… “Hey I have intellectual property rights to this invention for 20 years, so if you are going to make a wheel you need to pay me a royalty!”

    There are no inherent rights. The Aztecs in Mexico had the “god-given” right to human sacrifice.

    There were no Geneva Convention rules of war in the past… just like there was no intellectual property rights. Everybody conquering everybody else’s land was something that happened all the time.

    I think a lot about intellectual property rights. Yes I do believe they should exist and they’re good for society and people can recoup the costs of their research or work hours creating art or entertainment.

    But any thinking person does not think I have the right to copy Viagra one day after it goes on the market, and any thinking person does not believe Pfizer should have a monopoly after 20 years.

    There’s some debate about which rights should exist… but essentially we have rights because the vast majority of people believe in a certain right.

    In the past people did not believe in the rights of Nations the same way there were no intellectual property rights.

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  • Paolo 3 years ago

    Why didn’t anyone mention that it’s ok to think Israel has the right to exist whilst still disliking Netanyahu? (BTW I gave this video a “like”)

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  • Scott Alexander 3 years ago

    As an American, all I can say is, F*ck AIPAC! I HATE my taxes going to Israel. Our money belongs in the US, and the Palestinian state deserves to exist just as much as the Israeli state does.

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  • russell zauner 3 years ago

    Israel, the Poland of the Middle East

    yeesh

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  • Gary Johnson 3 years ago

    We’ve given about 1/4 trillion to Israel. I think it’s time to cut the umbilical cord.

    Maher is being intellectually dishonest. So if the Tongva or Kizh “return” to your house in LA your cool with that?

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  • Nick 3 years ago

    I agree with Bill. If Palestinians are not killing the rocketeers because those rockets will get them BOMBED, then they should expect to be bombed. The function of the rockets is NOT to end Israel by the rockets, it’s to terrorize them. It’s a terrorist tactic.

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  • Daniel Muller 3 years ago

    I think Bill forgets who was in charge of the UN in 1948… and that all of the borders of the countries in the Middle East were drawn by bunch of whities

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  • Mohammad Haidar Ahmad 3 years ago

    what cause the 11 days war is called ethnic cleansing according to nowadays laws.

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  • akil ahmad 3 years ago

    Dan Abrams made these same talking points on his radio show 2 weeks ago. The history lesson, how Arabs are treated, how it’s always hamas fault

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  • Mike Nica 3 years ago

    Arabs have had 6 offers for a 2-state solution in ths last century, each more generous than the prior, the last one being as recent as 2008. They not only refused but they responded with wars, intifadas or rockets (their most pacifist answer so far to past 2-state proposals).

    Those who claim that Israel doesn’t want a 2 state solution are ignorant of history. Yeah, they have the upper hand in military and technology but they have a bull’s eye on them all the time. The real bullies here are Hamas, who have the destruction of Israel in their charter.

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  • Jan Waldner 3 years ago

    A hundred people can not move out from a land and then a thousand years later a million of his descendants return to “reclaim” a land. It’s too long time, they have lost their right. Because if that’s possible then we all can invade Africa and claim our descendants rights.

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  • Nik P 3 years ago

    Surprisingly superficial from Bill.
    Something that bugs me is how come Hamas attacks with rockets the only country that has a system to protect from rockets? Why dont muslims try to attack with suicides bombers or any other type but rockets? Could this be funded by the isreal government so they stay in power?
    I mean there are over 1000 ways to attack a country, and you use the only way which the enemy can protect it self?
    Where in the world do you have an example of a country attacking the other country with rockets?!? Its absurd.

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  • lee 3 years ago

    If Bill Maher was half as smart as he thinks he is the guy could save the world.

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  • Vegan Dog 3 years ago

    Bill,
    If you have the courage debate Syrian Girl on who has ancestral ownership of Palestine.

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  • Ali Hamza 3 years ago

    he just made a strong case for mexicans and native americans to take back their lands

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  • Christian Nelson 3 years ago

    Let’s be honest, arguing for a people’s right to “occupy” a land, based on who was there first is moronic.
    Very few countries today are of those who were there first.

    This includes the USA and massive parts of Europe.

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  • iman missinne 3 years ago

    The fuck. Bill is losing his grip on humanity. What happend to learning before just spouting nonsens.

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  • jagat dave 3 years ago

    Best wishes to Israel…indians will always support you in social media even if we can not vote for you in united nations…in real life…indians will never provide arms and moral support to enemies of Israel…

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  • Jim Rose 3 years ago

    Bill, don’t sound so stupid. The Geneva Conventions are the Rules of War and wars are legal or illegal. What a fucking dope!

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  • Robert Schrader 3 years ago

    Nicholas Kristof is one of the dumbest and luckiest people in the world.

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  • sdtn yctk 3 years ago

    Bill.. I am sorry but you are soooooo damn biased .. ! I (wanna) believe that you are knowledgeable enough to see the fact that people have always been migrating/moving from one place to another to survive. Human history is human migration. No single group of people actually owns a part of this earth. If it is your argument (which is super ridiculous), then go back to Europe! It is native Americans’ land!

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  • Marcus Smith 3 years ago

    Israel has the backing of the most powerful military in World History. In addition, US Military weaponry, ships, tanks, plans. 176 billion dollars since 1976. Hamas is 72 year accumulation of Israeli occupation. The people of Palestine lives matter. There voices should be heard.

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  • MegaLuckydog1 3 years ago

    William white phosphorous bombs on civilians ensures children growing up with ptsd therefore justifying war in perpetuity, all of the usa was stolen. Study your subjects or stop the bs. “God’s people”.

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  • Steve Elshoff 3 years ago

    Bill’s not on the right, but he’s certainly not on the left, at least as it’s defined today. Good on him for not pandering to the prog left and remaining true to genuine liberalism.

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  • Jessica Hebin 3 years ago

    “If the influencers spent one day in Gaza, they would be running for Tel Aviv.” Yeah, that’s why the influencers are supporting the Gazans (not Hamas), bc they see how shit it is to have to live there.

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  • it'sDorian 3 years ago

    Bill….what happened? You became a scared white old boomer. Constantly at war with the younger generation.
    He is so emasculated by younger people. I think he is scared to death he is getting old and takes it out on the youth.
    Isreal is wrong this time…..

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  • it'sDorian 3 years ago

    Bill you need to redo your history…..1200 bc there was no jews….Jerusalem wasn’t their Capitol? You are telling bible stories lol

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  • Hemal Kantawala 3 years ago

    every one dislike this

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  • Zebulun Robinson 3 years ago

    There is no defense. Only action against Palestine. Period

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  • EFC 90 3 years ago

    I love Bill but not on Israel.

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  • G.D. Graham 3 years ago

    The complication of the Arab-Israel conflict is the current warmonger Israeli prime minister Netanyahu

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  • sophia Cort 3 years ago

    Unsubscribed!

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  • Tr4newreck 3 years ago

    Bill thats ridiculous… by that notion the native americans can use violence to take their land back because their claim is even more ancient than the jews to their land.

    The borders of israel have expanded since its formation. Building illegal settlements on land that is not theirs. That would piss off people who’s land you took and would probably make them indifferent to violent retaliation for such acts.

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  • Naama Jacoby 3 years ago

    Just imagine what is going to be if it will be two stand solutions does the Muslim never going to up to wipe Israel from the map…I don’t think so

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  • MrGriff305 3 years ago

    Why is this video new? It wasn’t from Friday, was it?

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  • YinyangDogs 3 years ago

    Bill is showing is Jewish bias

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  • G.D. Graham 3 years ago

    Breaking News: Well-known Islamaphobe defends Israel

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  • Richard Anthony 3 years ago

    Someone please tell me why the American Christians support Isreal to do what they do, while they curse Jesus call him a bastard a child of adultery a false prophet , they say his mother Mary was a harlot she got pregnant from fornication ? Someone tell me

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  • J Book 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is a Jew under cover – his mom was one.

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  • jumbo256 old school 3 years ago

    The whole mess started because Britain promised the same land to 2 different people, just to get allies against the ottoman empire in the first world war.

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  • star kix 3 years ago

    Load of rubbish and his body language screams out lies, lies and more lies.

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  • star kix 3 years ago

    It was never called Arab country but Palestine with Palestinians of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Bill equates being muslim to Arab and being Arab to muslims!! The purposly ignorance of an arrogant person.

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  • Paul Newman 3 years ago

    THERE GOING TO FAKE ALIENS COMING TO EARTH THIS MONTH! YOU BEEN WARNED!!

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  • Colin B. 3 years ago

    Bill shut up and let the guy speak. I want to HEAR the other side

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  • Norman P 3 years ago

    This is one of those very few occasions I disagree with Maher.

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  • Nikolas Gregoriou 3 years ago

    Sorry Bill but you are totally wrong on this. You must read history because you don’t seem to know the whole picture. Also There is a tremendous military difference here, and all the isreali propaganda about rockets being shot from family houses wont wash the blood of children of their hands.

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  • Timothy Garrett 3 years ago

    One of the few times I give total credit to Bill, and his argument was fair and open minded.

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  • S R 3 years ago

    Duck foff bill.

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  • Yoseman1 3 years ago

    The fact that Bill has these guests for this issue, instead of Dr. Cornell West, or Rep. Rashida Tlaib, etc., should tell you all you need to know.

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  • Suzanne Harris 3 years ago

    Maher has been insufferable for a very long time. Listening to folks like Max Blumenthal, Aaron & Gabor Mate, Abby Martin, & Norm Finlelstein, to name a few, will give one more truthful, factual information.

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  • Mr Chrysler 3 years ago

    If Lord Balfour and Rothschild, hadn’t decided to give other people’s land, and Hitler didn’t perform the genocide to get them out of Germany, they wouldn’t have to steal the Palestinians land, and their last couple thousand years living there, they might not feel so attached to the land, of which they have no other option.
    Look how attached the Jews are and they can only prove 73 years there.

    Besides, Israel was the northern ten tribes, Ephraim, and Jews, built this corporation/legal fiction, on the land that was the Kingdom Of Judah.
    God gave you that land?
    I think you should reread the book. Include that new section. The one that says in Matthew 23 that your house is left desolate by the Messiah Himself, and that generation would see it and then He had the temple torn down and scattered them to the wind.

    Looks like divorce to me.

    Matthew 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

    35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

    36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

    37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

    38 *Behold, your house is left unto you desolate* .

    39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

    Are the modern Jews genetically connected to Judah?

    It has come to my attention that some of those people living in Palestine are the direct descendants of The Apostles. Though, they didn’t have to move there and take someone else’s house.

    Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

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  • Kitty katz centeno 3 years ago

    Bravo Blill Maher! Some sense among all this nonsense. ….

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  • Mr Chrysler 3 years ago

    Hey Bill. If God does not exist these people have no claim to anything.

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  • Schizophane MacCranky 3 years ago

    So he cannot get over his “anti PC” take. It’s a ridiculous angle. He is disregarding the vote, the sabotage, by bringing up the slogan argument and powering through the obvious bias with distorted analogies.
    Canada and Mexico, seriously? Okay, in broad line, within the show’s context, a shortcut such as the French and the British claiming land in the USA, meh, maybe. Yet that would be overseeing the religious fantasies amplified by the XXth century’s trauma. We have a reason to want peace for such people, harassed through history since the Roman empire. Again, shortcuts. Disregarding the diaspora, disregarding the view’s in Israel, the reality of being dispossessed of stability, possibility for peace, and hope for any structure. No consideration of any study, any interview, any work on both sides. Nothing. “Arabs”, 12000 B.C, … Again. Seriously? Maher’s used to be the opposite of this. No mention of the stakes? The military action and press buildings? The history with France and Britain? Okay, jokes about cavemen… Are the ultra-Orthodox not as laughable? Since when is the “they had no claim according to our set of law” argument rationally acceptable ?
    In the name of his brand, Bill Maher is imposing a view made of what he used to criticize. The methodology is lacking. Btw, the progress thing… You choose to ridicule it by attributing immature and dangerous, heinous ideas to Hadid or rather to that entire imaginary movement you’re fighting. Bringing “Arabs” and mixing it up with “Islam”, which wasn’t in the argument. Maher’s “desert people” … feeling, I guess? No distinction between law, history, and religion, not to mention the disproportionate nature of retributions. Because, yes, in light of Maher’s very argument, it’s not a matter of defense, but one of retribution. An immature lecture of a crisis and its nature. Tv shows, Instagram, and youtube don’t teach shit.

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  • galenikarlek84 3 years ago

    Normal ppl supports Israel

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  • jaim haas 3 years ago

    The way Bill describes Israel seems a little more biased than what my research has shown. Israel has kept building new settlements in the Gaza which actually violates the UN charter.

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  • JEY Mohamed 3 years ago

    What a shame!! Defending indefensible Isreal atrocities in the occupied territories

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  • jaim haas 3 years ago

    Bill has some pretty pro-Israel positions. This is clear to me. I have no dog in this fight but clearly our media has always reported only one side of this issue and it was always meant to favor Israel.

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  • Mark Baldwin 3 years ago

    The State of Israel is Criminal! Trail of Tears, Gas Chambers, Occupation and Annexing! Go look at a 1947 Map, read the White Paper of 1939!

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  • Ivan Joseph 3 years ago

    Bill is an idiot on this topic.

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  • jaim haas 3 years ago

    HOW MANY USA CITIZENS know that year after year after year the country that receives the most FINANCIAL AID (MILITARY BASED) is ISRAEL. Time to examine the legitimacy of this.

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  • jaim haas 3 years ago

    You mean Carville is still alive????

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  • jaim haas 3 years ago

    Nobody ever wants to address the most ridiculous part of this conflict. Britain started this mess by GIVING away land it had no right to “gift”.

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  • ali sandhu 3 years ago

    Maher…you are so narrow minded on this issue, I am so surprised at your stance..

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  • Anahita Berenji 3 years ago

    Oh my God! What a shameless argument Maher is giving!
    Just because a group of people used to leave somewhere thousands of years ago, they have the right to get back there and push people out of their homes, seize their lands and then treat with pure racism and suppression!
    He talks about Hamas position in regards to women rights or democracy as if people in Gaza have either an official government or a voice to channel their opinion about Hamas. They might as well oppose Hamas policies!
    It is sickening when you see a smart well read person like Maher ignores the truth and twists the reality to appease Israelis

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  • Myles Gmail 3 years ago

    F*** Israel

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  • Myles Gmail 3 years ago

    Free Palestine NOW!!!!

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  • Tammy Jantzen 3 years ago

    I defend Palestinians but that doesn’t mean I defend Hamas. And, it’s not the Jewish or Palestinian people that are the problem. It’s their damn governments who just want power in lieu of equality and peace.

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  • Tzipporah Cohen 3 years ago

    Go Bill go!!!

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  • Harry Black 3 years ago

    Great to see the silent majority agree with Bill’s hard facts and not the woke mob idiots and hypocrites commenting here.

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  • Luis Nasser 3 years ago

    Israel does not need to be defended. The Likud-Hamas syndicate is the problem and indefensible, as much as Trump and the GOP are. Maher is flat out myopic here. The rockets were not fired out of a vacuum. The idea he talks about the occupation as if it was a joke is absurd. The occupation is illegal and not disputed, plus he ignores that Likud CREATED Hamas, to defeat Fatah. Absurd.

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  • Cunning Wolf 3 years ago

    Good Job Bill. Great clip. Your points are completely correct and on point.

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  • Ro Speaks 3 years ago

    Oh Bill. Just shut up.

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  • Go cuk 3 years ago

    Israel is aplying apartheid,including colonialism, since at least 4 decades, and it’s about time, that we aknowledge this fact.
    Is the palestine side better? At the end, who is taking over whom? It’s pretty clear to me.

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  • beavwarius p 3 years ago

    Note to self : if author uses the word “Zionist”, expect to hear arguments(against)regarding the existence of a state of Israel.

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  • Abiff Hiram32 3 years ago

    Bill claims to be an atheist but whenever it comes to defending Netanyahu and Israel he becomes Jewish so quickly.. he attacks christians he attacks muslims he attacks Hindus but whenever it comes to Israel he has his Shields of defence of HBO. obviously you do not know your history or the real history because the real Jews were not European whites the real Jews were black.. An Israel has never fought any country with a real military. Majority of the weapons that is supplied to Israel are from United States taxpayers money like 4 billion dollars a year and the petition from Israel to the pentagon to replenish their iron dome

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  • James Blunt 3 years ago

    Thank you Bill. You’re what I wish all of the left would look like – to the progressives you might as well be a Nazi. It’s really sad how the far left controls the Democratic party – it’s only a matter of time before the old guard is out and the crits, activists and neo-marxists take over the party completely. RIP the Democratic party and perhaps the US itself. I hope I’m wrong – please let me be wrong.

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  • Roberto Acevedo 3 years ago

    Eh it’s Bill Maher. Not surprised at his behavior.

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  • Rygel 3 years ago

    The map clearly shows who the oppressor is. I’d fire rockets every single day if someone was constantly stealing my home when a clear border was drawn and agreed upon.

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  • Abiff Hiram32 3 years ago

    And we as US taxpayers are required to pay 4 billion dollars a year to Israel and to pay for replenishing israel’s iron dome I as a taxpayer do not want to pay any money that goes to Israel

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  • AC3 3 years ago

    Maher, just shut up. You’ve clearly gotten too used to loving the sound of your own voice, and if you don’t let the guests speak, then why do you have guests at all? Just sit up there and pontificate, which is what you want to do?

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  • Clutch Flutie 3 years ago

    How dirty, they literally put a thumbnail of a guy who did not defend Israel, he was objective and also criticized Israel with truth.

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  • Clutch Flutie 3 years ago

    I love Bill but man is he a petty little fuck. He cries about twitter but the man literally thinks the universe is all just twitter all the time every time with everyone.

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  • Doug Hooper 3 years ago

    Maybe Israel should not keep taking the land of Palestinians or burn down their mosques. It is not a war . it is a occupation

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  • steven jackson 3 years ago

    We have to support Israel. But all 3 religions are nut cases.

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  • Jack Bell 3 years ago

    Yes Bill, if Canada launched bottle rockets at us we should retaliate with F-16s, satellite directed drone strikes, and a modern army. You do know that’s what their launching, right? Homemade rockets that do little or no damage at all.

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  • Doug Hooper 3 years ago

    Maher tries to equate as equal something that happened 2000 years ago versus what happened 50 years ago. Quite a reach.

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  • Javier Gutierrez 3 years ago

    Bill Maher – I don’t believe in God…
    also Bill Maher- God gave Israel to the Jews.

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  • m sam 3 years ago

    Arab citizens are treated badly because of the dictator s that are continuously installed by western government s to keep these nations in check

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  • Shrikant Jawalekar 3 years ago

    So True… You can’t learn history from Instagram (also not from micro aggression classes or short hair piercing class). Your Leftist “Woke” teacher won’t last even a day in real world. That’s why they hide themselves in academia.

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  • Übeyd Ruff 3 years ago

    Israel is a blatant liar. It is an apartheid state. My family’s village was stolen from them, and we have been refugees for 4 generations.

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  • Slightjoy 3 years ago

    Bill’s knowledge is surface at best. He misses so much and shouldn’t be so sure of his position, as it’s mostly wrong.

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  • Brandon Johnson 3 years ago

    It’s amazing how much different Bill’s take on this is compared to John Oliver, they’re technically both on the same side while also on the same network. John basically summed that shit bill was talking about with the missiles, up as some random dude throwing a handful of rocks at somebody wearing full body armor because of the “Iron dome” shooting most of them down while they successfully bombed civilians in retaliation, something bill doesn’t even mention at all.

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  • Joe Dixon 3 years ago

    Great points all around on this subject. …However, the map shown was quickly glossed over made an equally damning case of the reduction of Palestinian land on a massive scale. Both sides are wrong, but for different reasons. There are NO heroes in the land whose people killed Jesus, Peter, John, etc. And when going to the Promise Land wiped out men, women, children, and animals…because God said so…even though ten commandments say thou shalt not kill. The land began in blood and will end in blood.

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  • Jacob Guth 3 years ago

    Bill, you make good points and Israel citizen needing protection, but Gaza is an open air prison and the “war” i.e. aggression is asymmetric, F-20 fighters vs. an emaciated population, it’s not “war”. It’s a war crime. I expect you, like you normally do, to explore both sides of the conflict (anti-Semitism sentiment not withstanding). People like me, supporting peace, look at both sides.

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  • Walter Ramirez 3 years ago

    Ok. This time I’m disappointed on how misinformed and biased Bill was this time.

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  • Walter Ramirez 3 years ago

    This mocking millennials getting their information from Instagram is getting old as well.

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  • hugo9071 3 years ago

    The Assyrians were there way before Judea was established.

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  • דביר אטיאס 3 years ago

    When israel left the gaza strip, the Palestinians “got to vote”: they voted for hamas, a murderous terrorist organisation. And hamas votes for terrorism, time and time again.
    They choose to spent the money they get not at rebuilding gaza, but on building the expansive “gaza metro” a terrorist network of tunnels and arming themselves with more rockets for the next round of terrorist fire. (Right now they forbid a traditional flag dance through jerusalem and in the kotel, tommorow who knows. They are still terrorists, no matter how you paint it. They issue a threat, and if israel does not abide to their demands they attack, and are not accountable because israel clearly triggered them.)
    About the civilian casualties, the comparison between deciding to put one main israeli base in a city, to hamas obsession for firing rockets “from civilians, on civilians” and making it impossible to stop the rocket fire without harming civilians. While israel builds iron dome to protect civilians and gives warnings to uninvolved civilians to get out of harm’s way, hamas is using them as human shields,and if they die that’s some good PR points right? They are evil, and sadly the world’s eagerness to make israel the villian only makes them continue and further their wicked ways.

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  • Azel Az 3 years ago

    I’d like to see Bill’s face when native Americans show up to kick him out of his home because they have been there for thousands of years before his ancestors arrived. Cause according to Bill’s logic, they have the right to do that. Or is it different because it would affect him, not someone else on the other side of the planet? I mean fuck fundamental islamists and their oppressive ways but this logic cuts both ways.

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  • Thomas Davis 3 years ago

    Oh, so women do not have equal rights in Gaza so Israel should kill 60 children????

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  • Alex Shimla 3 years ago

    In with bill Maher 100% liberal media is a echo chamber that’s weird… They root for ppl who throw gays of the roofs beat up women use kids as a human shields. And Hamas firing 4000 rockets over civilian population of Israel is real war crime. If israel is able to defend itself from 4000 rockets doesn’t mean hamas didn’t tried to obliterate civilian population of Israel

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  • Kareem CARTER 3 years ago

    Bill seems to be defending the white side alot. Bills the Racist liberal Malcolm X talked about

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  • 17utk 3 years ago

    My guy spending so much time debunking Bella Hadid’s stance you’d think shes the world’s most dangerous ideologue. You go Bill… wage a war of ideas on America’s next top model.

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  • Ak 47 3 years ago

    When Trump supporters invaded the capital building you cried the sanctuary the house of democracy was invaded by mega and proud boys but its ok to invade Al Aqsa and attack Women and kids

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  • Glenn Cumby 3 years ago

    Bill your lack of humanity is showing with Israel kill ratio more than 20 to 1

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  • AdamTokay 3 years ago

    It’s been bothering me for a long time: arguing and belittling your audience when they don’t lough at one your “jokes”, all that antivax bullshit throughout the years and now this:defending war crimes. That does it. It was fun sometimes, you had your moments but it’s over. UNSUBSCRIBED

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  • Ak 47 3 years ago

    The chosen thiefs

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  • Pixair Iz 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is a clown

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  • Paul Hart 3 years ago

    A Jew on Israel side ha!

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  • Terry Wright 3 years ago

    Israel is simply ‘mowing the grass’. Their term, not mine. In the next 10 years they will mow the grass 2 or 3 more times. And again in the next decade. They can initiate it anytime they want, as can Hamas. The US is on record as saying they will restock the Iron Dome with missiles. Others will restock Hamas. The UN will send aid to rebuild some of what was destroyed. And on and on it goes in perpetuity. Is this OK? Is this an acceptable way for both to live?

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  • MrInternetDude 3 years ago

    Religion is the true crime here

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  • Terry Wright 3 years ago

    Bill, if you are going to point to history, be prepared to consider all of history and not just the selected bits which support your position.

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  • Marcs Delgdo 3 years ago

    Bill Maher only discusses important things with people he agrees with

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  • jman man 3 years ago

    Ask bill what the two blue lines on the Israeli flag represent.

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  • ravenblades1670 3 years ago

    It’s funny how bill’s ability to backroll game theory magically stops with Israel. He also doesn’t seem to realize that Palastine comes from the Philistine people, who were there 2000 years before Judaism existed. Boor Bill. He’s getting dim in his old age.

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  • Stephen White 3 years ago

    This audience is disgusting

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  • The Brocialist 3 years ago

    Lmao Maher has become such an unhinged boomer Zionist that he even makes the neocons blush

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  • M W 3 years ago

    Bill Maher – A true friend of the truth!!! Thank you for a glimpse of reality in this world of mirrors

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  • D I 3 years ago

    Bill is so stupid honestly. He can just say that he hates Muslims and move on. No need to give dubious 2000yr old history (which is a grave misrepresentation of history and facts.)

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  • Romeo Lachapelle 3 years ago

    palestinian are not arabe but muslim…btw no such thing at the end of day like “arab” or “europian”…you have catholicmuslimjew…final.

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  • Laurent D'Hondt 3 years ago

    Pathetic audience claps

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  • Jason Raper 3 years ago

    I think it’s interesting that Maher starts the segment off by claiming that people don’t know the history and that the left wants to be unnuanced, but then he basically settles on a one-sided non-nuanced argument himself. The more interesting conversation with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not who’s more right, but how you’re going to get two opposing sides, both with a mountain of history and context fueling their decisions, to reconcile that they both want to live in the region and will need to coexist.

    Also, I’m a little curious where he thinks all these need-to-learn-more young people got their knowledge ethic, because it seems to me like our shift away from nuance and toward such binary thinking isn’t isolated to this current generation …

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  • Darryl Joudrey 3 years ago

    LOL No one has heard Israels side. It’s been only their side for 50 years.
    The last 10 years we’ve heard the other side and now Bill Maher is claiming Victim Status for Israel.
    Can’t learn History from Bill Maher.

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  • Laurent D'Hondt 3 years ago

    So this is why youtube eliminated the dislike button?

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  • S T 3 years ago

    Israel shouldnt even be there in the first place. THAT is the problem!

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  • kuru K 3 years ago

    Does maher have secret lockheed martin stock or something?

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  • Hoggar Krababbel 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is evil! Killing children is not a matter of opinion, you bloodthirty maniac!

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  • Nathaniel Krugjohn 3 years ago

    “That’s hard”… Uh, yeah it is!. I love how he says, “that’s hard” like he addressed the issue of what Israel is supposed to do about a neighbor firing rockets at them while maintaining the explicit goal of kill all Jews. “That’s hard.” I remember years ago when they had a cease fire going on, Hamas fired a rocket at a school bus; their reasoning was that the rocket was about to expire and they had to use it…. I mean, WTF!?? So you fire it at a school bus??? -Gee… “that’s hard”

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  • Mahle77 3 years ago

    Bill Maher you just turned to be such a major disappointment.

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  • Einstein X 3 years ago

    4:07 come on Bill that is just plain hypocrite. Native Americans were in your country centuries before European settlers, so first solve your internal affairs before saying that Isreal has a right to their land based on history.

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  • Winston Thompson 3 years ago

    Negotiations work if both sides want peace. At this point, it is hard to say which side is the side that does not want peace. But it is clear, that neither side wants peace with the other. At which, only what’s written in history will determine the victim and the victor.

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  • Korey Yearwood 3 years ago

    Bill is against any and every thing middle.eastern

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  • JAY MURR 3 years ago

    Just look at Palestine’s shrinking borders over time, Isreal has been encroaching on their country and slowly taking over. This is okay with you Bill?

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  • caclryazze 3 years ago

    Bills argument doesn’t put anything into context and his argument acknowledges that Indigenous people of North America should get their land back. I wonder how he would disconnect these two situation.

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  • Mike The kite 3 years ago

    I like Bill. But clearly he does not understand history. Two thousand years ago, you stole people’s home and named it yours. Then after a long historical processes you got kicked out and the land changed hands. This was how the world works. But in the modern times, there is something called human rights. There was no human rights in ancient times so you do whatever the hell you want when you are a victor. But even in the eyes of the world, Israel continues to mistreat the Palestinians today. Israel’s goal is to turn Palestine back into Israel, despite human rights, despite modernity, despite the historical processes, and even if it requires a genocide, literally or culturally both. That’s the issue here Bill. Your understanding of history needs to include those parts I mentioned.

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  • Brian Styers 3 years ago

    Bill got religious about isreal

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  • Harold Goldstein 3 years ago

    No such people Palistine in English philistine all Goliath people all dead they need to move them to sinai they snuck in like Mexicans in america so move them to Paris they love them or sinai Afgan Iraq Babylon Persia Iran Jordan was lots father country so they robbed it go there Lebanon go there Seria go there was part of Judea

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  • Juan Garnica 3 years ago

    Good try Bill… Didn’t work

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  • macarthur71 3 years ago

    Bill’s take is incredibly wrong and his anaolgy of Mexico or Canada launching missiles at us is a laughably childish example.

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  • Jessica M. 3 years ago

    I’ve been disliking Bill Maher more and more lately. He was good at trashing Trump, that might have been about it

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  • Mariano Mazzieri 3 years ago

    Trying to equate Hamas to Palestine is an equivocation. One is a terrorist organization and the other is (or attempts to be) a state. However, such state is not acknowledged by Israel. If they did, then this could very well be a war between 2 nations…. or even more, like in the 60’s.

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  • Wronged Sports 3 years ago

    Everyone attacks Israel for what they have done and you can but you need to also put your anger at Jordan and Egypt who have not helped and don’t want Palestinians.

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  • Tom Jones 3 years ago

    It is true. Israel treats its own enemies than the way islamic regime of iran treats its own people.

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  • lin hai 3 years ago

    Bill’s position is that Palestinians don’t have the right to protect themselves, only Israel does. Typical white colonist!

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  • shneur 3 years ago

    Thank you for speaking truth Bill

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  • Jay Hamzaoui 3 years ago

    what a dumb idiot….arabs are originally jews that stayed behind…they are blood relatives

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  • Zach Shoup 3 years ago

    garbage

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  • Alaa Radi 3 years ago

    Bill.. you have made 20 false statements and a fool out of yourself only to please your Jewish masters who sponsor your show!

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  • Learning is fun with Naila😀😀 3 years ago

    The map that bill showed exactly illustrates the point how wrong he is by sympathising with Israeli occupation.

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  • dezmoynes1 3 years ago

    Bill is really unbalanced on this issue. Being unbalanced isn’t abnormal for him, but it’s particularly strong on this issue.

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  • AletheAce 3 years ago

    Bill says you can’t learn history on instagram, and then makes an argument a 5 year old would make. “bUt tHeY fIrEd rOcKeTs iNtO IsRaEl”

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  • Arthur Rimbaud 3 years ago

    Pathetic defense of Apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and racist colonialism. Not to mention the heartless and barbarous murder of defenseless men, women, and children.

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  • Marcus Middleton 3 years ago

    Would love to hear a Dan Carlin Hardcore history on this

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  • HebrewFromZero 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is so smart and honest

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  • George Butt 3 years ago

    Once again Maher blaming Muslims

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  • William Charles 3 years ago

    Maher pontificates and bloviates without having a Palestinian on to make their own case.

    He’s progressively become more insufferable.

    He basically said war crimes are OK.

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  • Phoenix 03 3 years ago

    Laws of war? Brah….

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  • Jr Rose 3 years ago

    Israeli government attacked the mosque in Ramadan has been illegally evicting Palestinian land owners and illegally stealing land for Jewish settlement. Israeli government has had a apartheid treatment for Palestinian people breaking international laws for decades

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  • Kid Mohair 3 years ago

    Mr Maher,
    if you are going to say that we have to look at the history of Palestine,
    then as an avowed agnostic, I do not think you can expect us to believe that you accept the bible as history, which it isn’t. There have been semitic(which does not mean jewish) people in that part of the world since “civilization” began. It has had armies pillaging all over it for almost as long.

    The Kingdom of Judea, which is used to justify Israel’s “right” to the land of Palestine,
    was dismantled by the Romans in the 1st century CE. 2 thousand years ago. That does not mean that all the jews then left the area. They didn’t. Not even a minority of them left. They just accepted that
    a king whom most of them found overbearing and taxed them at whim, was replaced by a power that still did that too, but was a bit more distant, and was perceived as more even handed and reasonable. There were those who resisted to their dying, but it didn’t work out. Suffice it to say that the Kingdom of Judea ceased to be what it was, and stayed absent from that area for 1,848 years;
    a little beyond the statute of limitations for possession. In any court of law, including roman courts.

    Let me provide a parallel. If say, the Indigenous people, whom I think we agree were the possessors of the territory you currently abide in, were to suddenly find a champion or two in say, China and the EU,
    and those entities were to pass a “binding resolution” that gave that land back to them…and you were forced, suddenly, under threat and without compensation, to move out of the home you have lived in for, say a decade…what would your reaction be?
    In the case of the Palestinians, they are being forced out of homes, some of which have been their families’ for generations, indeed back to the time of Judea, and before.

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  • ahmed awaad 3 years ago

    Its amazing how u can fit too many lies in a 10 min video!

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  • Thomas Meyer 3 years ago

    I wonder what Abby marten and Lee camp think about this aspect

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  • Robert Pearson 3 years ago

    One-sided? Are you kidding? The Israel lobby is so strong it’s shoved its hand up the ass of our government and the media working them all like puppets. Criticize Israel and you get called a terrorist. Bombing children isn’t a war, Bill, it’s a war crime.

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  • GT Temper 3 years ago

    U no longer have any credibility bill.great shame used to admire u. Any idiot can recognize Apartheid and war crimes and because of iron dome Hamas who I don’t advocate for fires so many to get thru a few.

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  • Jeffery C 3 years ago

    There is no sanity in any of this…n#StupidSmartPeopleHistoryffs

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  • Aggy 3 years ago

    Bill Mahers You you are showing your ignorance. You forget the history of the middle east and how Arabs and jews, Iranians and jews, north Africans and jews lived together in peace until European Jews and Zionists colonized Palestine with the help of western countries who really felt guilty and really did not want to take in the European Jews. If there was no Palestine, it was because the British had co!ionized it, just like there was no real Lebanon, or Syria, yes, even Israel.

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  • Aggy 3 years ago

    Instead of trotting out the worn out carp like “Hamas doesn’t allow women…” go back and look at Palestine in the 30s, 40s,

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  • Andy Dufresne 3 years ago

    We only ever get two choices in this world run by narcissists and their simple minded, black and white thinking. One side is absolutely right and the other absolutely wrong, or vice versa. What about neither side is right, nor was the UN right, or the British?

    And why am I required to hold an opinion on everything and defend it to the death? Why can’t this be somebody else’s problem that’s got nothing to do with me and is far too complex for me to wrap my head around without taking the time to fully study the history or having any desire to?

    This is all narcissistic ways of thinking, and the trouble with the world is that we’ve let the narcissists force their inane mindless interpretations of the world on all of us. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on narcissism, stop enabling them, and reject the utter stupidity that they’ve taken over the world with. Modern science is developing a new, much more sophisticated understanding of narcissism than we’ve ever had, and narcissism is usually not what people think it is, but rather much more complicated and severe than people realize. There’s a whole community talking about it on youtube. Search for it and binge watch. It’ll change your life.

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  • Irina 3 years ago

    Thank you Bill for being the voice of reason in a sea of insanity.

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  • Gabaymaal 1 3 years ago

    Genesis 25:9 “And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre” Machpelah is now known as Hebron, so if the Bible says Jews father Isaac and Arabs father Ishmael, who by the way were brothers, buried their father Abraham in Hebron; the same land in the dispute now, does Bill’s argument of who got there first before 3000 years make any sense, just asking? Here we have two brothers fighting over a plot of land from their own father and the world is divided on who is the real owner !!!!! peace please.

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  • Tim Hash 3 years ago

    Bill Maher is biased on this subject! The state of Israel is responsible for ethnic-cleansing and displacement! If they weren’t illegally evicting Palestinians, and limiting, food, vaccines, and much else!

    The illegal evictions and attacking peaceful practitioners of Islam at the third holiest Muslim site in the world!

    Maher get your act together, because you don’t know how terrible the state of Israel is being AGAIN!

    FYI, I’m not a Palestinian, nor am I an Israeli, nor am I a Jewish person; I am a human being, who lives in america and is tired of this imperialistic crap that america wastes tax dollars on. Maher is generally renting about American interventions and wrongdoings, but not when it comes to all Islamic people, especially Palestinians!

    There are quite a few anti-zionist jews in this world, so don’t be like a pro-fascist, pro-apartheid, pro-ethnic cleansing, pro-zionist, anti-equality for Palestinian lives, because then you would be bill Maher.

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  • Stratos I 3 years ago

    OK. Definition of Genocide… Check. Precedent where a country standing by and allowing it is guilty of Genocide … Check. Conservative dressed as a Liberal to placate the masses into allowing genocide… Check. Israel getting a free pass for murder … Check.

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