Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart is not a military or foreign policy genius, but he does play on TV. After 11 months of rocket fire from Hezbollah that has seen 60,000 Israelis become refugees in their own country, Israel has started to hit Hezbollah hard in recent days, leading Stewart to ask, “What did Lebanon do?” on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show.
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Later in his monologue, Stewart teed up a clip of Axios’s Barak Ravid on CNN, “If you really want to experience the full cognitive dissonance and language calisthenics that have to be deployed to describe the Middle East over the last, I don't know, four, five, six, 10,000 years, we're describing, I give you: the golden soundbite, brought down from Sinai to explain how [bleep] convoluted this has to be.”
In the clip, Ravid reported, “What the Israeli government has said, and the Biden administration has, in many ways, subscribed to this idea—is deescalation through escalation.”
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