War is a nasty business, which is why it is advised that starting one with a country much stronger than you is a bad idea, but for Comedy’s Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers, outrage is better directed at the United States because we are supposedly complicit in Israeli war crimes.
Stewart welcomed progressive columnist Peter Beinart to discuss his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, and asked, “I know what I am seeing, and I have a moral clarity about what I am seeing, and what I am seeing, I think, as someone who was raised in Judaism, that's what taught me that this is wrong… But what happens when David becomes Goliath? And the responsibility there—is that what troubles you?”
Beinart naturally agreed, “Yeah. I mean, our responsibility is to remember, is to remember what was done to us, to remember what we would have wanted people around the world—I'm not saying that what is happening in Gaza is the equivalent of the Holocaust or anything like that, but what is happening is bad enough.”
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