Jon Stewart: "Have You F_cking Seen Gaza?"

[kpete]

MORE:
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/zlzdov/-500--crazies-of-summer
https://twitter.com/AymanM/statuses/489417783814258689
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/16/1314337/-Jon-Stewart-What-are-Gazans-supposed-to-do-Evacuate-to-where-Have-you-f-cking-seen-Gaza

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. Go the opposite place that Hamas tells them to go

Because Hamas means for Palestinians to live near weapons, human shield style.

[sgtbenobo]

2. Wow....

.... sounds like you really know what you are talking about. I'm sure glad you've offered this sage and poignant advice. Gosh, I wish I could solve this whole Middle-Easty thing as easily as you.

[Rex]

21. Well when you make the big bucks like DT...

sorry...

[DLnyc]

3. So it's really Hamas that is making Israel drop 1000-pound bombs on your house?

It's so confusing. Only really smart people like you, I guess, can help us understand that when hundreds of Palestinians have to die to balance 3 Israelis killed by a couple of crazies, that is really a diabolically clever strategy engineered by Hamas, and not the disproportionate response and collective punishment by the Israelis that us mere mortals might imagine it to be.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. It's actually the Saud Family asking them (not making them) so that

Saudi Arabia can distract its own disaffected citizens, turning them into Muslim radicals instead of the Marxist radicals they would otherwise be.

And since the powers that be in the US love a dictatorship and hate socialism, they side with the Sauds on this one. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with keeping all the wealth in the hands of the 1%.

[mrdmk]

20. and I thought is was for the oil

Really, you are probably more than correct about keeping certain people in power.

[Boom Sound 416]

22. Did you forget about the indiscriminate rocket launches

Because the civilians of Tel Aviv have not.

[Hugabear]

4. Please elaborate

Since you seem to have extensive knowledge of the Gaza area. Where exactly are they supposed to evacuate to?

[egduj]

19. Germany or Poland.

[alsame]

5. We hear this for every

conflict. How much is true? I don't know, having never been on the ground during any of those conflicts. But it's something we hear over and over again, I suppose to lessen the impact on the home audience when civilians are killed. So I take everything with a large grain of salt.


Taliban Accused of Using Children as Human Shields

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/09/19/taliban-accused-using-children-as-human-shields/


Bush: Saddam using Iraqi civilians as 'human shields'

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/sprj.irq.bush/


U.S. Says Al-Qaeda Used Afghan Children As Human Shields

http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1077179.html

[Chemisse]

13. It is effective PR, whether true or not.

It seems to be used as a response whenever there is a concern as to why civilians are killed by US or its allies.

No matter how barbaric or one-sided the attack, it is okay because the 'bad guys' are somehow causing it themselves.

[alsame]

15. Yep, those dropping the bombs

are never to blame.

[arcane1]

6. Are there military, non-civilian areas in Gaza that they can avoid?

[Mnemosyne]

8. 360 sq km - 123 sq mi, really no where to go, is there? NYC is 301 sq mi. London is 659 sq mi.

Gaza = huge prison.

[Spazito]

7. Love Jon Stewart, he always gets to the crux of the issue in short order...

no wonder so many of the public watch his show to get the real facts, he does it with pointed humor and he does it so well.

[Cosmocat]

16. I absolutely love him

few people I have the kind of regard I have for him.

Sharp as hell, I mean, razor sharp. He has a nice self deprecating quality, does not seem to take himself too seriously, considering he is a major media personality.

I have given up on pretty much all cable news now, after going through a almost a decade of following it like a sports fan.

Only things I really watch now are him and Bill Maher, similar, but not as good as Stewart.

I work out of home, and I DVD Stewart and watch his show eating lunch.

[Spazito]

17. My daughter and her partner as well as my son and his partner watch him and...

say watching him cover the issues goes a long way in helping them actually understand them as opposed to the mainstream media who do 'flybys' without providing context. My children and their partners aren't steeped in politics like I am but, because of their watching of Jon Stewart and his ilk, we now have some great conversations on many issues in which they were previously unaware or uninterested.

[Cosmocat]

18. it is a blessing

to not have the accepted, loving, back slapping corporate media bullshit attached to things, for sure.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus

[madokie]

10. What a treasure Jon Stewart is

I sure hope he gets the recognition he so richly deserves

[2banon]

12. Stewart!

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.