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Because Jon Stewart is a Jew, the right is just angry they can’t call him anti-Semetic, which is their usual SOP when someone dares to criticize their Holy Land.
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But it worked, he shut up. Like so many before him.
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Once again, it takes the Comedy Channel and Jon Stewart to shine a light on what the current sad state of affairs really is.
Courage, humility, humor, intelligence, and humanity have always been part of his show, and we applaud.
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What I find interesting is that the half of the scenario regarding condemnation of The Times of Israel and Mark Levin was real, whereas the contrary condemnation was manufactured by his own “correspondents,” and was not real.
Seems like just another example of “fairness bias” – affording two sides to an argument for which there really aren’t two sides under the pretense of balance.
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Bless John Stewart, it has come to this in “news” today - a comedian who is one of the best truth tellers on the tee vee. If a person does not think that the corporate media gives Israel far more favorable coverage, and has since there has been a corporate media, then they are not being honest. There are plenty of atrocities commented by both sides in the name of their religions, so maybe it is time to identify the real culprit in all of this, asinine beliefs.
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Perhaps you should research the terms “satire”, “hyperbole” and “exaggeration”. Though lots of people absorb news indirectly through The Daily Show, it is NOT a news show. If it were such, your criticism would have merit.
It is a comedy show based not infrequently on satire, hyperbole and exaggeration. The “correspondents” were over-acting to mock the absurdity of the real, documented narrow-minded criticisms that The Times of Israel, Levin and others have channeled towards Stewart for his even-handed criticism of the excesses of the current Israeli government.
Like Stewart said, “But just merely mentioning Israel or questioning in any way the effectiveness or humanity of Israel’s policies is not the same thing as being pro-Hamas.” Yet The Times, Levin et al. act like it IS the same thing. They are absurd. And in the long run, they are contrary to the health and humanity of the nation of Israel.
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You can see in the comments here, where it’s my distinct impression that many have decided to just remain silent rather than endure the vitriol and accusations of the “Stand with Israel” crowd.
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Ever heard of “internalized anti-Semitism”?
Where are the headlines and articles about thousands of Muslims in France, Italy and Germany screaming “Death to the Jews” and “Jews to the gas chambers?” Where is the article about the imams calling for their followers to kill Jews around the world?
Been there.
I imagine that Jewish Americans also get to deal with a giant guilt trip whenever the issue comes up - “You don’t support your people? My uncle has numbers on his arm!” - so, that must be fun.
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I think Trippin was just pointing out the reflexive need to balance out the “self-hating Jew” with the “Zionist pig”, when I’m fairly sure that the former accusations were the prompt for the bit in the first place. While Stewart’s show is satire, in this case the resort to a both-sides-do-it balance is all too similar to real news.
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There are extremists on both sides, aren’t there?
Jerusalem Post reports:
"…In an unusual move, the Gush Etzion Regional Council on Friday built two outposts within Gaza, in the boundaries of the settlements of Tekoa and Bat Ayin. The Kiryat Arba Council also built one on the outskirts of its settlement.
In all three cases, the councils placed modular homes on state land in what they hope will become neighborhoods of the three settlements. Although the councils had in the past drawn up plans to build there, they do not have permits to do so.
During the last decade, the local and regional settler councils have largely refrained from unauthorized building, and instead have battled to legalize some 100 outposts built from 1995 to 2005, mostly with their assistance.
But on Saturday night, Kiryat Arba Council head Malachi Levinger and Gush Etzion Regional Council head Davidi Perl said the building was in response to the Palestinian killing of three teenagers last month, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19.
“The murders sought to harm and weaken the settlement enterprise,” said Perl. “Our answer is to strengthen our hold on the land and to build instead of being uprooted.”
Building outposts is a clear sign Gush Etzion is an integral part of the State of Israel, said Moshe Savile, deputy head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council. “It’s the first step toward applying [Israeli] sovereignty over the Gush [Etzion bloc],” Savile said.
Theocracies suck.
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you do realize he is only on for 20 minutes a day. It wasn’t the screaming that shut him up, it was commercial breaks.
“This is my sacred piece of desert!”
“You terrorist! It is my sacred lot of sand and poison scorpions!”
Wash
Rinse
Repeat
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That’s odd. I think it’s just the opposite.
Let me repeat what I have said many times: ANY argument which begins with the equivalent of, “Yes but, what about (fill in the name and atrocity of the other side)” is no longer one I will listen to.
BOTH sides are to blame…it was far right idiots on BOTH sides of this fence that started this…a very small minority of right-wing zealots on BOTH sides who each kidnapped, tortured and killed teen agers…
and in so doing, they got supposedly thinking adults for Hamas and the Israeli government to quickly escalate this mess once again into another bloodbath.
How many times does this cycle have to keep repeating itself before saner minds on both sides say, “This doesn’t seem to be getting us anywhere”?
The Israeli’s are busily at work on their stated mission of blowing up Hamas tunnels. Raise your hand if you think they will get all of them OR if you think Hamas will give up creating new ones.
Anyone, anyone?
Raise your hand if you think invading Gaza, shelling hospitals and killing children on the beach will lead to peace. Raise your hand if you believe firing rockets into populated areas of Israel will lead to peace.
Anyone, anyone?
Now…see if you can come back with a sentence that does not begin with “Yes but, what about (fill in the name and atrocity of the other side)”
If you could put aside the religious and ethnic hatred, you could discover that Arabs and Jews actually have much more in common than they will ever admit. And religious and ethnic hatred aside, with peace, the entire Israel/Gaza region could become a vibrant center for agriculture and trade.
But it is more fun killing each other while simultaneously pointing the finger of blame at each other. They have been doing it for a century more or less, and they are very good at it. But it isn’t accomplishing anything for anybody except arms manufacturers and zealots.
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Yeah, I’m familiar with the format. I’m also aware that whole bit was scripted (and pre-recorded, and cut in in real time). All written to fit between their 4 (or 5 if you count the pre-credits break) commercial breaks.
You seemed to have missed it, but I was giving snarky approval of their high speed re-enactment of our media. Brevity is the soul of wit, it was merely approval and approbation on my part for their demonstration of the principle. But thanks for grounding me in reality.
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Well, if I understand you correctly, you’re no doubt right that there’s a lot of vitriol and accusation on the side criticizing Israel. But I imagined that frequent commenters who were MIA on this issue generally were against Israeli actions vis-a-vis the Palestinians. It’s possible that I’m wrong about that, as they aren’t commenting.