HBO host Bill Maher closed the year out with a bang, delivering a blunt and brutal message to the useful idiots who have bought into the “myth” of “from the river to the sea” as the latest cause du jour fueling their ongoing temper tantrum against Western civilization.
Airing on a night when a mob of pro-Hamas protesters caused a disruption of traffic at LAX, Friday’s edition of “Real Time With Bill Maher” was a chance for the old-school liberal comic to give “TikTok fans” both a reality check and a history lesson on how Muslim countries have conducted campaigns of “ethnic cleansing” for centuries and that no matter how loud and angry they get, Israel isn’t going anywhere.
In the “New Rules” segment, Maher began with a Christmastime reference, noting that the “little town of Bethlehem was “86% Christian” back in 1950 and today it’s “overwhelmingly Muslim.”
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“And that’s my point tonight: Things change,” he said. “To 2.3 billion Christians, there could be no more sacred site than where their savior was born, but they don’t have it anymore. And yet no crusader army has geared up to take it back. Things change- countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years but today, an ottoman is something you’ve put under your feet.”
Running through several examples of historical changes in geography, Maher pointed out, “eventually everybody comes to an accommodation, except for the Palestinians.”
“Was it unjust that even a single Arab family was forced to move upon the founding of the Jewish State? Yes, but it’s also not rare. Happening all through history all over the world. And mostly what people do is make the best of it,” he continued. “After World War II, 12 million ethnic Germans got shoved out of Russia and Poland and Czechoslovakia because Germany had become kind of unpopular. A million Greeks were shut out of Turkey in 1923, a million Ghanaians out of Nigeria in 1983, almost a million French out of Algeria in 1962, nearly a million Syrian refugees moved to Germany eight years ago. Was that a perfect fit?”
“And no one knows more about being pushed off land than the Jews, including the almost holy kicked out of every Arab country they once lived in. Yes, TikTok fans, ethnically cleansing happened both ways,” he added, displaying a chart showing dwindling Jewish populations in Arab-dominated countries.
“History is brutal, and humans are not good people. History’s sad and full of wrongs but you can’t make them unhappen because a paraglider isn’t a time machine. People get moved, and yes, colonized. Nobody was a bigger colonizer than the Muslim army that swept out of the Arabian desert and took over much of the world in a single century. And they didn’t do it by asking,” he continued, dispensing history like it would never be taught by a tenured Harvard professor. “There’s a reason Saudi Arabia’s flag is a sword. Kosovo was the cradle of Christian Serbia, then it became Muslim. They fought a war about it in the 90s but stopped. They didn’t keep it going for 75 years.”
Listing all of the times when Palestinian leaders rejected peace with the Jewish democracy, Maher took aim at Palestinians and leftist problem children on American college campuses.
“The Palestinian people should know your leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies are not doing any favors by keeping alive the ‘river to the sea’ myth. I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: nowhere,” Maher said, serving up the truth without any sugarcoating.
“It’s one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion economy, the world’s second-largest tech sector after Silicon Valley and nuclear weapons. They’re here, they like their bagel with a schmear, getting used to it,” he said. “What’s happening to Palestinians today is horrible. And not just in Gaza, in the West Bank too. But war ends through negotiation. And what the media glosses over is it’s hard to negotiate when the other side’s bargaining position is ‘You will die and disappear.’ I mean, the chant ‘From the river to the sea?’ Yeah, let’s look at the map,” Maher added as he went to a visual.
“Here’s the river. Here’s the sea. Oh, I see. It means you get all of it. Not just the West Bank, which was basically the original UN-partition deal you rejected because you wanted all of it and always have, even though it’s indisputably also the Jews’ ancestral homeland, and so you attacked and lost. And attacked again and lost. And attacked again and lost,” he said, making it clear that the phrase calls for the elimination of Israel and its people.
One of the few on the left who dares to defy the orthodoxy of the “woke” cultural revolution, Maher tells it like it is.
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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