For the last three weeks the late night comedy shows have relentlessly attacked President Trump amid the war in Iran, but on Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went over the other half of the American-Israeli alliance in an interview with former Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan on The Daily Show. Both men would also use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare the U.S. is hypocritical in how it talks about its enemies by erasing key facts from their history lessons and morally obscene analogies.
Stewart began by somehow managing to memory hole October 7 as he compared Israel’s war against Hamas to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
So, this gets us to the interesting point about belligerent countries and about belligerent nations, and that is the difference between capability and ambition, and I think we're seeing that now with Benjamin Netanyahu—by the way, when you were in office, how many times did you have to say to Benjamin Netanyahu, like, ‘Don't bomb that?’ Like, do they listen? You know, I was so struck—this is a tangent. He seems [bleep] nuts. It’s the kind of thing—I remembered when Russia bombed Ukraine and you guys came out with very powerful statements, 'These are war crimes,' you’re against that and then Benjamin Netanyahu bombs Gaza and it kills thousands of thousands civilians in the U.S. is like, ‘Hey, guys be cool.’ Like, it's so weird to me that we don't take—why is that?
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. steve malzberg
