As President Trump continues to consider his options on whether or not to join Israel’s campaign against Iran, Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart expressed confusion on Thursday on why Israel doesn’t just accept that we live in a world full of risk.
Stewart’s evidence for why Israel is acting counterproductively was thin, “And I want to step back for a second and talk about the macro idea of risk assessment within this world. The one thing about Israel that I truly do not understand is this idea of they won't live in a world of risk, but we live in a world of risk. There is no zero risk. It's this idea of if there is one suicide attack that is done by a Palestinian, well, then we must remove Hamas, or we must wage war until we are safe, and that just seems like a fundamentally flawed—”
First of all, it wasn’t just some lone suicide bomber blowing himself up at one bus stop somewhere. It was a full-on invasion that was, on a per capita basis, several times worse than 9/11. Furthermore, Stewart is just wrong on history. Hamas governed Gaza for well over a decade, and, on October 6, Israelis viewed any supporter of invading Gaza as a kook. On October 7, it became a matter of national survival.
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