1 00:00:06,476 --> 00:00:13,476 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:26,763 --> 00:00:27,295 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:27,364 --> 00:00:30,865 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 4 00:00:30,934 --> 00:00:31,699 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 5 00:00:31,768 --> 00:00:32,900 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 6 00:00:32,969 --> 00:00:34,102 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 7 00:00:34,171 --> 00:00:35,136 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 8 00:00:35,205 --> 00:00:35,803 US. 9 00:00:35,872 --> 00:00:37,271 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK! 10 00:00:37,340 --> 00:00:37,839 ELECTIONS ON TUESDAY SAW BIG 11 00:00:37,908 --> 00:00:40,575 WINS FOR DEMOCRATS. 12 00:00:40,644 --> 00:00:41,876 OHIO VOTED TO ENSHRINE ABORTION 13 00:00:41,945 --> 00:00:42,410 RIGHTS IN ITS STATE 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,178 CONSTITUTION. 15 00:00:44,247 --> 00:00:45,613 AND, THE SAG STRIKE FINALLY 16 00:00:45,682 --> 00:00:46,681 ENDED, MEANING MOVIES WILL BE 17 00:00:46,750 --> 00:00:48,516 BACK IN PRODUCTION. 18 00:00:48,585 --> 00:00:49,884 ALTHOUGH TO BE HONEST, I'M NOT 19 00:00:49,953 --> 00:00:50,785 EVEN SURE I EVEN NEED MOVIES 20 00:00:50,854 --> 00:00:51,385 ANYMORE, SINCE THIS 17 MINUTE 21 00:00:51,454 --> 00:00:52,954 VIDEO WAS RELEASED OF WHAT I CAN 22 00:00:53,023 --> 00:00:57,492 ONLY DESCRIBE AS A HAMSTER 23 00:00:57,561 --> 00:00:58,059 GATSBY LIVING ITS BEST LIFE. 24 00:00:58,128 --> 00:01:01,762 ♪ ♪ 25 00:01:01,831 --> 00:01:08,831 [HAMSTER SQUEAKING] 26 00:01:09,072 --> 00:01:13,407 ♪ ♪ 27 00:01:13,476 --> 00:01:14,509 >> John: IT'S A COMPLETE 28 00:01:14,578 --> 00:01:14,809 MASTERPIECE! 29 00:01:14,878 --> 00:01:15,343 AND IT GOES ON FOR 16 MORE 30 00:01:15,412 --> 00:01:16,911 MINUTES! 31 00:01:16,980 --> 00:01:18,646 I MEAN "BARBENHEIMER" WAS FINE, 32 00:01:18,715 --> 00:01:19,380 I LIKED IT FINE, BUT BE HONEST 33 00:01:19,449 --> 00:01:19,947 -- IT'S JUST NOT AS GOOD AS 34 00:01:20,016 --> 00:01:21,983 THAT. 35 00:01:22,052 --> 00:01:22,717 AND I REALLY HOPE YOU ENJOYED 36 00:01:22,786 --> 00:01:24,018 WATCHING IT. 37 00:01:24,087 --> 00:01:25,052 I REALLY DO. 38 00:01:25,121 --> 00:01:26,454 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO DIVE 39 00:01:26,523 --> 00:01:27,221 STRAIGHT IN WITH OUR MAIN STORY 40 00:01:27,290 --> 00:01:29,123 TONIGHT, WHICH CONCERNS THE 41 00:01:29,192 --> 00:01:29,724 ONGOING WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND 42 00:01:29,793 --> 00:01:30,625 HAMAS. 43 00:01:30,694 --> 00:01:33,461 A SENTENCE WHICH IS A TERRIBLE 44 00:01:33,530 --> 00:01:34,095 WAY TO START A COMEDY SHOW, AND 45 00:01:34,164 --> 00:01:37,165 A GREAT WAY TO END A FIRST DATE. 46 00:01:37,234 --> 00:01:38,599 AND LOOK, BEFORE WE EVEN BEGIN, 47 00:01:38,668 --> 00:01:40,101 I KNOW A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION 48 00:01:40,170 --> 00:01:41,002 SURROUNDING THIS HAS BEEN 49 00:01:41,071 --> 00:01:42,537 EXTREMELY HEATED. 50 00:01:42,606 --> 00:01:43,104 YOU MAY HAVE SEEN FRIENDS OR 51 00:01:43,173 --> 00:01:45,239 COWORKERS POSTING HOT TAKES 52 00:01:45,308 --> 00:01:46,307 THAT'VE SHOCKED YOU. 53 00:01:46,376 --> 00:01:47,341 SUDDENLY THAT GUY WHO OFFERED 54 00:01:47,410 --> 00:01:48,676 YOU COKE AT A WEDDING IS WRITING 55 00:01:48,745 --> 00:01:51,679 THESIS LONG INSTAGRAM STORIES ON 56 00:01:51,748 --> 00:01:53,347 THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION, KATHY 57 00:01:53,416 --> 00:01:54,582 FROM WORK'S POSTING SOMETHING 58 00:01:54,651 --> 00:01:56,717 THAT'S ANTISEMITIC IN A WAY YOU 59 00:01:56,786 --> 00:01:59,353 REALLY HOPE SHE DOESN'T REALIZE, 60 00:01:59,422 --> 00:01:59,954 AND IT'S ALL SHOVED IN BETWEEN 61 00:02:00,023 --> 00:02:02,056 YOUR FAVORITE INFLUENCER SHOWING 62 00:02:02,125 --> 00:02:03,157 HOLE, WHILE ALSO CALLING FOR A 63 00:02:03,226 --> 00:02:04,559 FREE PALESTINE. 64 00:02:04,628 --> 00:02:06,594 THE INTERNET IS A WILD PLACE. 65 00:02:06,663 --> 00:02:07,228 THINGS ARE, UNDERSTANDABLY, VERY 66 00:02:07,297 --> 00:02:08,596 TENSE RIGHT NOW, AND IT SEEMS 67 00:02:08,665 --> 00:02:09,197 LIKE EVERYONE IS FINDING 68 00:02:09,266 --> 00:02:13,668 THEMSELVES MAKING MISTAKES, AND 69 00:02:13,737 --> 00:02:14,635 I DO MEAN EVERYONE. 70 00:02:14,704 --> 00:02:17,972 >> MEANWHILE K-MART HAS HAD TO 71 00:02:18,041 --> 00:02:18,606 PULL ONE ITS CHRISTMAS ITEMS OFF 72 00:02:18,675 --> 00:02:19,407 THE SHELF BECAUSE OF ITS 73 00:02:19,476 --> 00:02:19,841 UNFORTUNATE WORDING. 74 00:02:19,910 --> 00:02:21,175 THE SHOPPING GIANT SELLING HAM 75 00:02:21,244 --> 00:02:23,111 CHRISTMAS CALICO BAGS WITH THE 76 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:25,780 SLOGAN "MERRY HAM-MAS." 77 00:02:25,849 --> 00:02:26,047 >> OH, NO. 78 00:02:26,116 --> 00:02:26,581 >> WHICH APPEARS TO BE TOO 79 00:02:26,650 --> 00:02:27,915 SIMILAR TO THE TERRORIST GROUP 80 00:02:27,984 --> 00:02:28,816 HAMAS. 81 00:02:28,885 --> 00:02:29,350 >> John: YEAH, THAT IS TOO 82 00:02:29,419 --> 00:02:31,219 SIMILAR! 83 00:02:31,288 --> 00:02:33,020 IT'D BE LIKE NAMING YOUR CHILD 84 00:02:33,089 --> 00:02:33,855 JOHN BLAINE GACY, IT'S TOO CLOSE 85 00:02:33,924 --> 00:02:35,890 FOR COMFORT. 86 00:02:35,959 --> 00:02:37,091 BUT SPARE A THOUGHT FOR 87 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,059 AUSTRALIAN K-MART THERE, HOW 88 00:02:38,128 --> 00:02:39,093 WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT 89 00:02:39,162 --> 00:02:40,495 HAMAS WAS GOING TO LAUNCH A 90 00:02:40,564 --> 00:02:41,596 TERRORIST ATTACK SO CLOSE TO THE 91 00:02:41,665 --> 00:02:44,732 HAM-MAS SEASON! 92 00:02:44,801 --> 00:02:45,399 CELEBRATE AND HAVE HEARD OF 93 00:02:45,468 --> 00:02:47,635 BEFORE. 94 00:02:47,704 --> 00:02:49,070 IT FEELS LIKE HAM-MAS STARTS A 95 00:02:49,139 --> 00:02:49,604 LITTLE EARLIER EVERY YEAR, 96 00:02:49,673 --> 00:02:51,038 DOESN'T IT? 97 00:02:51,107 --> 00:02:52,840 ONE DAY IT'S HAM-OWEEN, THE 98 00:02:52,909 --> 00:02:53,441 NEXT, YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HANGING 99 00:02:53,510 --> 00:02:56,043 HAM-MAS LIGHTS. 100 00:02:56,112 --> 00:02:56,677 AND CELEBRITIES HAVE ALSO FOUND 101 00:02:56,746 --> 00:02:57,712 OUT THE HARD WAY THAT IT'S EASY 102 00:02:57,781 --> 00:02:59,046 TO GET THINGS WRONG. 103 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:00,748 A FEW WEEKS AGO, JUSTIN BIEBER 104 00:03:00,817 --> 00:03:02,049 POSTED "PRAYING FOR ISRAEL" OVER 105 00:03:02,118 --> 00:03:03,684 A PICTURE OF A DEVASTATED CITY 106 00:03:03,753 --> 00:03:05,520 THAT HE APPARENTLY DIDN'T 107 00:03:05,589 --> 00:03:06,888 REALIZE WAS ACTUALLY GAZA. 108 00:03:06,957 --> 00:03:07,789 HE THEN DELETED THE POST AND 109 00:03:07,858 --> 00:03:09,223 RE-POSTED THE SAME PRAYERS OVER 110 00:03:09,292 --> 00:03:11,893 A BLANK BACKGROUND. 111 00:03:11,962 --> 00:03:12,360 WHICH, AS WE NOW KNOW, 112 00:03:12,429 --> 00:03:15,630 THANKFULLY SOLVED EVERYTHING. 113 00:03:15,699 --> 00:03:16,164 THERE WAS ALSO A STATEMENT 114 00:03:16,233 --> 00:03:17,231 ISSUED BY A GROUP OF CELEBRITIES 115 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:19,433 CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE RETURN 116 00:03:19,502 --> 00:03:20,568 OF ISRAELI HOSTAGES, WHICH TMZ 117 00:03:20,637 --> 00:03:23,604 COVERED LIKE THIS. 118 00:03:23,673 --> 00:03:24,605 >> ANYONE INVOLVED IT SEEMS IN 119 00:03:24,674 --> 00:03:26,107 THE HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY ALL PUT 120 00:03:26,176 --> 00:03:29,043 THEIR NAMES TO A LETTER TO 121 00:03:29,112 --> 00:03:31,145 PRESIDENT BIDEN. 122 00:03:31,214 --> 00:03:32,547 IT REALLY DOES FEEL LIKE IT'S 123 00:03:32,616 --> 00:03:32,814 EVERYONE. 124 00:03:32,883 --> 00:03:34,081 IT'S CHRIS ROCK, IT'S 125 00:03:34,150 --> 00:03:36,150 GWYNETH PALTROW, IT'S 126 00:03:36,219 --> 00:03:38,920 ADAM SANDLER. 127 00:03:38,989 --> 00:03:40,655 >> LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING. 128 00:03:40,724 --> 00:03:41,456 WHO DOESN'T WANT TO GET THE 129 00:03:41,525 --> 00:03:41,789 HOSTAGES OUT? 130 00:03:41,858 --> 00:03:42,423 >> BRADLEY COOPER. 131 00:03:42,492 --> 00:03:45,359 I MEAN, YOU'RE RIGHT. 132 00:03:45,428 --> 00:03:46,461 >> IT'S A NON-STATEMENT. 133 00:03:46,530 --> 00:03:47,995 I MEAN, OF COURSE EVERYONE WANTS 134 00:03:48,064 --> 00:03:49,130 TO GET THE HOSTAGES OUT. 135 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:49,831 >> I JUST THINK IT'S BEYOND 136 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:50,498 RIDICULOUS. 137 00:03:50,567 --> 00:03:52,066 LIKE IF WE PLAY THAT OUT FOR A 138 00:03:52,135 --> 00:03:52,300 SECOND. 139 00:03:52,369 --> 00:03:52,900 JOE BIDEN'S GOING TO GET THIS 140 00:03:52,969 --> 00:03:54,569 OPEN LETTER, AND BE LIKE WHAT? 141 00:03:54,638 --> 00:03:55,136 "OH MY GOD, THE ROCK SIGNED 142 00:03:55,205 --> 00:03:56,104 THIS." 143 00:03:56,173 --> 00:03:58,406 [LAUGHTER] 144 00:03:58,475 --> 00:03:59,140 WE HAVE TO GET THE HOSTAGES OUT. 145 00:03:59,209 --> 00:04:00,775 LIKE, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 146 00:04:00,844 --> 00:04:02,276 >> John: YEAH, AS MUCH AS I HATE 147 00:04:02,345 --> 00:04:03,578 TO AGREE WITH PAPARAZZI 148 00:04:03,647 --> 00:04:04,345 SPORTSCENTER, THEY'RE RIGHT 149 00:04:04,414 --> 00:04:05,379 ABOUT THAT. 150 00:04:05,448 --> 00:04:07,181 THE ROCK PROBABLY ISN'T GOING TO 151 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:07,715 SOLVE THE CONFLICT IN THE 152 00:04:07,784 --> 00:04:08,883 MIDDLE EAST. 153 00:04:08,952 --> 00:04:09,884 IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS SO 154 00:04:09,953 --> 00:04:11,486 OBVIOUS IT SHOULDN'T NEED 155 00:04:11,555 --> 00:04:12,453 SAYING, LIKE PIE TASTES GOOD, OR 156 00:04:12,522 --> 00:04:14,188 RAINBOWS ARE PRETTY, OR YOSHI IS 157 00:04:14,257 --> 00:04:16,057 AMAZING IN THE SACK. 158 00:04:16,126 --> 00:04:17,225 LOOK AT THAT TONGUE. 159 00:04:17,294 --> 00:04:20,228 END OF DISCUSSION. 160 00:04:20,297 --> 00:04:21,762 BUT EVEN AS HARVEY LEVIN LEVELED 161 00:04:21,831 --> 00:04:23,531 SOME FAIR CRITIQUES ON THE UTTER 162 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,666 FUTILITY OF CELEBRITY, HE 163 00:04:25,735 --> 00:04:26,501 COULDN'T HELP TAKING A PRETTY 164 00:04:26,570 --> 00:04:29,103 STRONG STANCE OF HIS OWN. 165 00:04:29,172 --> 00:04:31,038 >> THE STATEMENT OF A CEASEFIRE 166 00:04:31,107 --> 00:04:32,874 IS THAT YOU ARE GOING -- RIGHT, 167 00:04:32,943 --> 00:04:38,713 TO ALLOW HAMAS TO COME BACK IN 168 00:04:38,782 --> 00:04:40,248 AND TRY TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS 169 00:04:40,317 --> 00:04:40,782 IN ISRAEL AND END ISRAEL. 170 00:04:40,851 --> 00:04:42,416 >> PRESUMABLY THE CEASEFIRE 171 00:04:42,485 --> 00:04:44,252 MEANS THAT HAMAS SHOULD NOT BE 172 00:04:44,321 --> 00:04:44,786 ATTACKING EITHER. 173 00:04:44,855 --> 00:04:47,789 >> WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. 174 00:04:47,858 --> 00:04:48,489 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE 175 00:04:48,558 --> 00:04:48,856 CEASEFIRE MEANS. 176 00:04:48,925 --> 00:04:50,558 >> RIGHT, AND HAMAS ATTACKED IN 177 00:04:50,627 --> 00:04:52,426 THE FIRST PLACE. 178 00:04:52,495 --> 00:04:54,228 THIS WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK, AND 179 00:04:54,297 --> 00:04:55,997 THE IDEA THAT THERE'S GOING TO 180 00:04:56,066 --> 00:04:57,965 BE A CEASEFIRE NOW INVITES HAMAS 181 00:04:58,034 --> 00:05:00,301 JUST TO DO IT AGAIN. 182 00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:01,769 >> John: YEAH, TMZ IS NOW 183 00:05:01,838 --> 00:05:02,937 HASHING OUT ITS PREFERRED 184 00:05:03,006 --> 00:05:03,538 SOLUTIONS FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING 185 00:05:03,607 --> 00:05:05,339 IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 186 00:05:05,408 --> 00:05:06,340 RAISING MANY QUESTIONS, 187 00:05:06,409 --> 00:05:07,708 INCLUDING: WHAT EXACTLY IS TMZ 188 00:05:07,777 --> 00:05:10,745 NOW? 189 00:05:10,814 --> 00:05:11,813 IT USED TO BE "ESPN FOR 190 00:05:11,882 --> 00:05:13,481 B-LISTERS LEAVING THE AIRPORT" 191 00:05:13,550 --> 00:05:14,849 AND STORIES LIKE "THIS CELEBRITY 192 00:05:14,918 --> 00:05:16,784 DIED AND NOT EVEN THEIR FAMILY 193 00:05:16,853 --> 00:05:18,653 KNOWS YET," AND NOW IT'S DOING 194 00:05:18,722 --> 00:05:19,153 GEOPOLITICS. 195 00:05:19,222 --> 00:05:22,223 PICK A LANE, GUYS! 196 00:05:22,292 --> 00:05:23,758 IT'S EITHER "JOSH GAD SPILLS ICE 197 00:05:23,827 --> 00:05:24,492 CREAM ON HIS DOG" OR 198 00:05:24,561 --> 00:05:25,259 "ARIEL SHARON'S IMPACT ON U.S. 199 00:05:25,328 --> 00:05:26,027 FOREIGN POLICY." 200 00:05:26,096 --> 00:05:30,097 YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH! 201 00:05:30,166 --> 00:05:30,731 THE POINT IS, THERE ARE STRONG 202 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:31,332 OPINIONS EVERYWHERE -- AND IN 203 00:05:31,401 --> 00:05:31,933 SOME CASES, THEY'VE UNDENIABLY 204 00:05:32,002 --> 00:05:33,401 BEEN INFORMED BY BIGOTRY. 205 00:05:33,470 --> 00:05:38,639 ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS HAVE 206 00:05:38,708 --> 00:05:40,443 SPIKE IN THE U.S. SINCE 207 00:05:43,446 --> 00:05:45,346 IN THE PAST MONTH. 208 00:05:45,415 --> 00:05:48,516 IT'S NOT BEEN AN EASY TIME TO 209 00:05:48,585 --> 00:05:50,118 WEAR A 210 00:05:50,187 --> 00:05:55,456 YARMULKE OR A HIJAB IN AMERICA 211 00:05:55,525 --> 00:05:56,090 OVER THE MONTH -- AND I SAY THAT 212 00:05:56,159 --> 00:05:56,657 KNOWING IT'S NOT NECESSARILY 213 00:05:56,726 --> 00:05:57,225 BEEN EASY ON OUR BEST DAYS. 214 00:05:57,294 --> 00:05:57,725 SO THERE ARE A THOUSAND 215 00:05:57,794 --> 00:05:58,326 DIFFERENT REASONS WHY THIS IS 216 00:05:58,395 --> 00:05:58,960 HARD TO TALK ABOUT, BUT IT DOES 217 00:05:59,029 --> 00:05:59,460 FEEL IMPORTANT TO TRY. 218 00:05:59,529 --> 00:06:00,027 AS YOU UNDOUBTEDLY KNOW, ON 219 00:06:00,096 --> 00:06:00,661 OCTOBER 7TH, HAMAS-LED MILITANTS 220 00:06:00,730 --> 00:06:01,262 LAUNCHED AN UNPRECEDENTED AND 221 00:06:01,331 --> 00:06:02,730 BRUTAL ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL, 222 00:06:02,799 --> 00:06:03,598 KILLING OVER 1,000 PEOPLE -- 223 00:06:03,667 --> 00:06:04,298 MOSTLY CIVILIANS, INCLUDING 224 00:06:04,367 --> 00:06:04,866 WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THEIR 225 00:06:04,935 --> 00:06:09,070 HOMES -- IN WHAT ENDED UP BEING 226 00:06:09,139 --> 00:06:09,704 THE DEADLIEST DAY FOR JEWS SINCE 227 00:06:09,773 --> 00:06:11,105 THE HOLOCAUST. 228 00:06:11,174 --> 00:06:12,507 OVER 200 HOSTAGES WERE TAKEN, 229 00:06:12,576 --> 00:06:14,075 INCLUDING A NINE-MONTH-OLD BABY, 230 00:06:14,144 --> 00:06:14,609 MOST OF WHOM HAVE NOT BEEN 231 00:06:14,678 --> 00:06:16,978 RETURNED. 232 00:06:17,047 --> 00:06:17,678 IT WAS HIDEOUS AND IT WAS 233 00:06:17,747 --> 00:06:19,981 SICKENING. 234 00:06:20,050 --> 00:06:21,415 IN RESPONSE, ISRAEL LAUNCHED 235 00:06:21,484 --> 00:06:22,650 WHAT'S NOW BECOME A MONTHLONG 236 00:06:22,719 --> 00:06:23,584 SIEGE OF GAZA, CUTTING OFF 237 00:06:23,653 --> 00:06:24,685 NEARLY ALL WATER, FOOD, 238 00:06:24,754 --> 00:06:25,553 ELECTRICITY, AND FUEL TO THE 239 00:06:25,622 --> 00:06:27,655 TERRITORY. 240 00:06:27,724 --> 00:06:29,457 IN JUST THE FIRST SIX DAYS OF 241 00:06:29,526 --> 00:06:32,260 THE WAR, IT DROPPED 6,000 BOMBS 242 00:06:32,329 --> 00:06:34,529 ON A STRIP OF LAND JUST 25 MILES 243 00:06:34,598 --> 00:06:35,897 LONG, AND AT MOST 7 MILES WIDE. 244 00:06:35,966 --> 00:06:37,932 THAT'S NEARLY AS MANY AS THE 245 00:06:38,001 --> 00:06:39,367 RECORD NUMBER THAT THE U.S. 246 00:06:39,436 --> 00:06:40,601 DROPPED ON AFGHANISTAN IN A 247 00:06:40,670 --> 00:06:42,537 SINGLE YEAR. 248 00:06:42,606 --> 00:06:43,838 AS OF THIS TAPING, MORE THAN 249 00:06:43,907 --> 00:06:45,006 11,000 PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED, 250 00:06:45,075 --> 00:06:45,506 INCLUDING AT LEAST 4,000 251 00:06:45,575 --> 00:06:48,643 CHILDREN. 252 00:06:48,712 --> 00:06:49,210 THERE IS ALMOST NO PIECE OF 253 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:55,650 FOOTAGE THAT I COULD SHOW YOU 254 00:06:55,719 --> 00:06:56,417 OF GAZA THAT IS NOT HORRIFYING 255 00:06:56,486 --> 00:06:56,818 OR HEARTBREAKING. 256 00:06:56,887 --> 00:06:57,385 BUT WE DID FIND ONE PIECE OF 257 00:06:57,454 --> 00:06:58,019 FOOTAGE WHERE A CHILD VERY APTLY 258 00:06:58,088 --> 00:06:58,586 SUMS UP WHAT THINGS ARE LIKE 259 00:06:58,655 --> 00:06:59,320 THERE. 260 00:06:59,389 --> 00:06:59,921 >> HOW HAVE THE PAST FEW DAYS 261 00:06:59,990 --> 00:07:02,824 BEEN, ABDULAZIZ? 262 00:07:02,893 --> 00:07:04,525 >> LIKE SHIT. 263 00:07:04,594 --> 00:07:05,159 >> IT'S OKAY, WE CAN CUT IT OUT. 264 00:07:05,228 --> 00:07:06,461 TELL ME HOW HAVE THE PAST FEW 265 00:07:06,530 --> 00:07:08,729 DAYS BEEN, ABDULAZIZ? 266 00:07:08,798 --> 00:07:09,664 EXPLAIN TO US. 267 00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:10,198 >> YOU MEAN ABOUT THE WAR? 268 00:07:10,267 --> 00:07:11,699 >> YES. 269 00:07:11,768 --> 00:07:12,934 HOW HAS IT BEEN WITH THE WAR? 270 00:07:13,003 --> 00:07:14,535 >> LIKE SHIT! 271 00:07:14,604 --> 00:07:15,603 >> John: YEAH, OF COURSE IT 272 00:07:15,672 --> 00:07:18,072 FEELS LIKE SHIT! 273 00:07:18,141 --> 00:07:19,107 THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT. 274 00:07:19,176 --> 00:07:21,742 AND I'M GLAD HE DIDN'T EVEN TRY. 275 00:07:21,811 --> 00:07:23,077 I ALSO APPRECIATE HIM ASKING FOR 276 00:07:23,146 --> 00:07:23,711 CLARIFICATION WHEN THE REPORTER 277 00:07:23,780 --> 00:07:25,279 STARTED OVER. 278 00:07:25,348 --> 00:07:26,247 "SORRY, JUST TO BE CLEAR, YOU'RE 279 00:07:26,316 --> 00:07:27,281 ASKING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE 280 00:07:27,350 --> 00:07:28,116 THROUGH THIS WAR, RIGHT? 281 00:07:28,185 --> 00:07:30,017 OKAY, GOT IT! 282 00:07:30,086 --> 00:07:31,052 MY ANSWER REMAINS -- LIKE SHIT! 283 00:07:31,121 --> 00:07:34,655 NEXT QUESTION, PLEASE." 284 00:07:34,724 --> 00:07:35,189 AND I'VE GOT TO SAY, IT IS 285 00:07:35,258 --> 00:07:36,724 HARD TO SEE A KID LIKE THAT, AND 286 00:07:36,793 --> 00:07:37,325 THEN HEAR GLIB PRONOUNCEMENTS 287 00:07:37,394 --> 00:07:38,526 LIKE THIS ONE, FROM 288 00:07:38,595 --> 00:07:39,093 REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN MAST OF 289 00:07:39,162 --> 00:07:40,728 FLORIDA. 290 00:07:40,797 --> 00:07:41,329 >> I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE OTHER 291 00:07:41,398 --> 00:07:44,132 SIDE TO NOT SO LIGHTLY THROW 292 00:07:44,201 --> 00:07:45,666 AROUND THE IDEA OF INNOCENT 293 00:07:45,735 --> 00:07:46,234 PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, AS IS 294 00:07:46,303 --> 00:07:50,371 FREQUENTLY SAID. 295 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,006 I DON'T THINK WE WOULD SO 296 00:07:52,075 --> 00:07:56,310 LIGHTLY THROW AROUND THE TERM 297 00:07:56,379 --> 00:07:56,944 "INNOCENT NAZI CIVILIANS" DURING 298 00:07:57,013 --> 00:07:57,278 WORLD WAR II. 299 00:07:57,347 --> 00:08:02,116 THERE'S NOT THIS FAR STRETCH TO 300 00:08:02,185 --> 00:08:06,387 SAY THERE ARE VERY FEW INNOCENT 301 00:08:06,456 --> 00:08:09,457 PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS. 302 00:08:09,526 --> 00:08:10,057 >> John: OKAY, THAT'S NOT ONLY 303 00:08:10,126 --> 00:08:11,926 DISGUSTING, IT IS ALSO, 304 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:13,594 EVIDENTLY THE SORT OF THING 305 00:08:13,663 --> 00:08:14,228 YOU'RE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH 306 00:08:14,297 --> 00:08:15,797 SAYING ON THE HOUSE FLOOR WITH 307 00:08:15,866 --> 00:08:16,998 ZERO REPERCUSSIONS, BECAUSE 308 00:08:17,067 --> 00:08:17,565 THAT'S APPARENTLY WHERE THE 309 00:08:17,634 --> 00:08:19,600 CONVERSATION IS RIGHT NOW. 310 00:08:19,669 --> 00:08:21,202 BUT JUST SO WE'RE VERY CLEAR, 311 00:08:21,271 --> 00:08:22,570 THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT 312 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:24,472 PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, IN THE 313 00:08:24,541 --> 00:08:25,072 SAME WAY THERE ARE FLORIDIANS 314 00:08:25,141 --> 00:08:25,940 WHO AREN'T BRAINDEAD BIGOTS WITH 315 00:08:26,009 --> 00:08:28,609 A PENIS FOR A HEAD. 316 00:08:28,678 --> 00:08:29,343 A REGION'S WORST DOES NOT 317 00:08:29,412 --> 00:08:33,848 REPRESENT THEM ALL. 318 00:08:33,917 --> 00:08:34,482 AND LOOK, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO 319 00:08:34,551 --> 00:08:35,950 TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE 320 00:08:36,019 --> 00:08:38,519 MIDDLE EAST TONIGHT. 321 00:08:38,588 --> 00:08:39,253 AND I KNOW YOU'RE THINKING: BUT 322 00:08:39,322 --> 00:08:40,021 JOHN ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? 323 00:08:40,090 --> 00:08:41,422 AREN'T YOU SCHOOL?" 324 00:08:41,491 --> 00:08:43,224 WELL, FUN FACT, I'M NOT! 325 00:08:43,293 --> 00:08:44,125 IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT, I'M 326 00:08:44,194 --> 00:08:44,725 ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY A COMEDY 327 00:08:44,794 --> 00:08:45,359 SHOW, I JUST HIDE IT BETTER THAN 328 00:08:45,428 --> 00:08:47,094 MOST. 329 00:08:47,163 --> 00:08:47,728 SO I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE 330 00:08:47,797 --> 00:08:49,831 THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF 331 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:53,601 GENERATIONAL TRAUMAS INFORMING 332 00:08:53,670 --> 00:08:54,368 THE RESPONSE TO THIS, INCLUDING 333 00:08:54,437 --> 00:08:57,438 THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE NAKBA, OR 334 00:08:57,507 --> 00:08:58,005 MASS VIOLENT DISPLACEMENT OF 335 00:08:58,074 --> 00:08:58,606 PALESTINIANS, BEFORE AND AFTER 336 00:08:58,675 --> 00:08:59,006 ISRAEL'S FOUNDING. 337 00:08:59,075 --> 00:08:59,540 I'M ALSO NOT GOING TO DO A 338 00:08:59,609 --> 00:09:01,676 HISTORICAL BLOW-BY-BLOW OF HOW 339 00:09:01,745 --> 00:09:02,243 PALESTINIANS CAME TO LIVE IN 340 00:09:02,312 --> 00:09:02,910 GAZA AND THE WEST BANK RIGHT 341 00:09:02,979 --> 00:09:09,617 NOW. 342 00:09:09,686 --> 00:09:10,918 YOU CAN GOOGLE THAT FOR 343 00:09:10,987 --> 00:09:11,519 YOURSELVES -- OR EVEN BING IT! 344 00:09:11,588 --> 00:09:12,086 THAT'S COMPLETELY FINE, TOO! 345 00:09:12,155 --> 00:09:12,720 THOUGH I WILL SAY -- I WOULDN'T 346 00:09:12,789 --> 00:09:13,554 ASK JEEVES ABOUT THIS. 347 00:09:13,623 --> 00:09:14,188 HE HAS SOME UNEXPECTEDLY PRETTY 348 00:09:14,257 --> 00:09:18,092 NASTY VIEWS ON THIS. 349 00:09:18,161 --> 00:09:18,726 INSTEAD, I'D LIKE TO ZERO IN ON 350 00:09:18,795 --> 00:09:19,360 ONE OF THE BIGGEST 351 00:09:19,429 --> 00:09:20,495 MISCONCEPTIONS YOU MAY'VE BEEN 352 00:09:20,564 --> 00:09:25,032 HEARING OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS. 353 00:09:25,101 --> 00:09:25,633 SPECIFICALLY, THE TENDENCY TO 354 00:09:25,702 --> 00:09:28,202 COLLAPSE LEADERS AND CITIZENS 355 00:09:28,271 --> 00:09:29,170 WHEN DISCUSSING THIS. 356 00:09:29,239 --> 00:09:30,271 TO ASSUME THAT NETANYAHU SPEAKS 357 00:09:30,340 --> 00:09:30,905 FOR ALL ISRAELIS, OR THAT HAMAS 358 00:09:30,974 --> 00:09:32,406 SPEAKS FOR ALL PALESTINIANS. 359 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:34,442 BECAUSE THAT IS EMPHATICALLY NOT 360 00:09:34,511 --> 00:09:35,910 THE CASE. 361 00:09:35,979 --> 00:09:38,513 SO TONIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT HAMAS 362 00:09:38,582 --> 00:09:39,213 AND NETANYAHU -- HOW THEY CAME 363 00:09:39,282 --> 00:09:41,015 TO BE IN POWER, WHOSE INTERESTS 364 00:09:41,084 --> 00:09:42,049 THEY DO AND DON'T REPRESENT, AND 365 00:09:42,118 --> 00:09:43,618 WHAT ROLE THEY'VE PLAYED IN 366 00:09:43,687 --> 00:09:45,419 BRINGING US TO THIS CURRENT 367 00:09:45,488 --> 00:09:45,920 CONFLICT. 368 00:09:45,989 --> 00:09:47,655 AND LET'S START WITH HAMAS. 369 00:09:47,724 --> 00:09:48,756 IT'S BEEN AROUND SINCE 1987, AND 370 00:09:48,825 --> 00:09:51,793 HAS GOVERNED GAZA FOR THE LAST 371 00:09:51,862 --> 00:09:52,426 17 YEARS. 372 00:09:52,495 --> 00:09:52,994 IT WAS FOUNDED, IN PART, IN 373 00:09:53,063 --> 00:09:59,066 OPPOSITION TO THE CORRUPTION OF 374 00:09:59,135 --> 00:09:59,700 WHERE PALESTINIAN POLITICS WERE 375 00:09:59,769 --> 00:10:00,334 HEADING AT THE TIME EMBRACING A 376 00:10:00,403 --> 00:10:00,935 PEACE PROCESS WITH ISRAEL, A 377 00:10:01,004 --> 00:10:04,038 PROCESS BY THE WAY THE 378 00:10:04,107 --> 00:10:04,672 PALESTINIANS HAD HIGH HOPES FOR 379 00:10:04,741 --> 00:10:11,741 WHEN IT STARTED. 380 00:10:12,115 --> 00:10:12,814 BUT HAMAS BRANDED ITSELF THE 381 00:10:12,883 --> 00:10:17,251 PARTY OF WRIST SINCE RESISTANCE. 382 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:17,885 AND UNDERMINED THE PEACE PROCESS 383 00:10:17,954 --> 00:10:18,486 WITH A LONG SERIES OF ATTACKS 384 00:10:18,555 --> 00:10:18,953 AND SUICIDE BOMBINGS. 385 00:10:19,022 --> 00:10:19,587 HAMAS SEEMS TO BE VINDICATED IN 386 00:10:19,656 --> 00:10:20,188 ITS MESSAGING AND YOU CAN SEE 387 00:10:20,257 --> 00:10:20,721 THE PHILOSOPHY CONTINUING 388 00:10:20,790 --> 00:10:26,093 THROUGH TODAY. 389 00:10:26,162 --> 00:10:26,727 IT THEN UNDERMINED THAT PROCESS 390 00:10:26,796 --> 00:10:27,328 WITH A LONG SERIES OF ATTACKS 391 00:10:27,397 --> 00:10:27,795 AND SUICIDE BOMBINGS. 392 00:10:27,864 --> 00:10:28,362 THIS SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, 393 00:10:28,431 --> 00:10:28,963 GHAZI HAMAD, RECENTLY DOUBLED 394 00:10:29,032 --> 00:10:29,597 DOWN ON THE MASSACRE OF OCTOBER 395 00:10:29,666 --> 00:10:30,164 7, BY SAYING "WE MUST TEACH 396 00:10:30,233 --> 00:10:32,066 ISRAEL A LESSON, AND WE WILL DO 397 00:10:32,135 --> 00:10:33,201 IT TWICE, AND THREE TIMES." 398 00:10:33,270 --> 00:10:35,036 AND FOR MANY COMMENTATORS, ALL 399 00:10:35,105 --> 00:10:36,704 THE CITIZENS OF GAZA ARE 400 00:10:36,773 --> 00:10:37,238 IMPLICATED IN THAT SORT OF 401 00:10:37,307 --> 00:10:38,906 RHETORIC, THANKS TO ONE KEY FACT 402 00:10:38,975 --> 00:10:41,909 YOU HEAR ALL THE TIME. 403 00:10:41,978 --> 00:10:42,443 >> THE PEOPLE OF GAZA, THE 404 00:10:42,512 --> 00:10:43,978 PALESTINIANS ELECTED HAMAS 405 00:10:44,047 --> 00:10:45,813 PEOPLE, HAMAS FIGHTERS, HAMAS 406 00:10:45,882 --> 00:10:47,048 TERRORISTS TO THEIR BOARD OF 407 00:10:47,117 --> 00:10:51,452 GOVERNORS. 408 00:10:51,521 --> 00:10:52,053 >> THE PEOPLE IN GAZA ELECTED 409 00:10:52,122 --> 00:10:52,253 HAMAS. 410 00:10:52,322 --> 00:10:54,622 IT'S A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, 411 00:10:54,691 --> 00:10:55,857 THAT IS THEIR GOVERNMENT. 412 00:10:55,926 --> 00:10:56,491 >> HOW DO YOU SAY HAMAS DOESN'T 413 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:58,226 REPRESENT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE 414 00:10:58,295 --> 00:11:01,362 WHEN THEY VOTED HAMAS IN TO 415 00:11:01,431 --> 00:11:02,130 REPRESENT THEM? 416 00:11:02,199 --> 00:11:03,431 >> John: OKAY, SO VERY QUICKLY, 417 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:04,332 THAT'S TUCKER CARLSON'S 418 00:11:04,401 --> 00:11:04,966 REPLACEMENT AT FOX, 419 00:11:05,035 --> 00:11:06,400 JESSE WATTERS. 420 00:11:06,469 --> 00:11:07,301 HE'S A LOT LIKE TUCKER, EXCEPT 421 00:11:07,370 --> 00:11:09,370 LESS CHARISMATIC, WAY DUMBER, 422 00:11:09,439 --> 00:11:11,305 AND WITH SOMEHOW EVEN MORE OF AN 423 00:11:11,374 --> 00:11:12,106 "I'VE KILLED SOMEONE DURING A 424 00:11:12,175 --> 00:11:13,841 FRATERNITY HAZING ACCIDENT" 425 00:11:13,910 --> 00:11:14,876 VIBE. 426 00:11:14,945 --> 00:11:15,343 WHICH IS REALLY SAYING 427 00:11:15,412 --> 00:11:17,979 SOMETHING. 428 00:11:18,048 --> 00:11:18,713 BECAUSE LOOK, IT'S TRUE THAT 429 00:11:18,782 --> 00:11:19,781 GAZANS DID, AT ONE POINT, ELECT 430 00:11:19,850 --> 00:11:20,648 HAMAS. 431 00:11:20,717 --> 00:11:22,750 BUT, IF YOU THINK THAT MAKES 432 00:11:22,819 --> 00:11:24,285 THEM ALL COMPLICIT IN WAR CRIMES 433 00:11:24,354 --> 00:11:26,721 THEIR GOVERNMENT COMMITS, THEN 434 00:11:26,790 --> 00:11:31,192 BOY DO I HAVE BAD NEWS FOR YOU 435 00:11:31,261 --> 00:11:31,759 ABOUT WHAT THE U.S. FOREIGN 436 00:11:31,828 --> 00:11:33,928 POLICY. 437 00:11:33,997 --> 00:11:34,529 AND ALSO, THERE ARE SOME HUGE 438 00:11:34,598 --> 00:11:35,129 ASTERISKS ON "GAZANS ELECTING 439 00:11:35,198 --> 00:11:40,468 HAMAS." 440 00:11:40,537 --> 00:11:41,102 FIRST, THAT ELECTION HAPPENED IN 441 00:11:41,171 --> 00:11:41,736 2006, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN ONE 442 00:11:41,805 --> 00:11:41,936 SINCE. 443 00:11:42,005 --> 00:11:42,570 AND GIVEN THAT CHILDREN MAKE UP 444 00:11:42,639 --> 00:11:43,070 ROUGHLY HALF OF GAZA'S 445 00:11:43,139 --> 00:11:45,773 POPULATION, THAT MEANS MOST 446 00:11:45,842 --> 00:11:46,374 GAZANS WEREN'T EVEN BORN WHEN 447 00:11:46,443 --> 00:11:47,308 THE LAST ELECTION TOOK PLACE. 448 00:11:47,377 --> 00:11:48,910 WHAT'S MORE, HAMAS DIDN'T WIN A 449 00:11:48,979 --> 00:11:52,947 MAJORITY. 450 00:11:53,016 --> 00:11:53,448 IT ONLY WON WITH A BARE 451 00:11:53,517 --> 00:11:54,615 PLURALITY OF THE VOTES. 452 00:11:54,684 --> 00:11:55,416 AND IT DID SO BY RUNNING AGAINST 453 00:11:55,485 --> 00:11:56,050 FATAH, WHICH WAS WIDELY REVILED 454 00:11:56,119 --> 00:11:58,686 FOR INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION 455 00:11:58,755 --> 00:12:00,321 AT THE TIME. 456 00:12:00,390 --> 00:12:02,223 THOSE WERE THE KEY ISSUES IN 457 00:12:02,292 --> 00:12:02,757 THAT ELECTION. 458 00:12:02,826 --> 00:12:05,193 ALSO, HAMAS WENT OUT OF ITS WAY 459 00:12:05,262 --> 00:12:06,961 TO PRESENT ITSELF AS MORE 460 00:12:07,030 --> 00:12:07,562 MODERATE BACK THEN. 461 00:12:07,631 --> 00:12:08,162 IN FACT, HERE'S THE SAME HAMAS 462 00:12:08,231 --> 00:12:09,797 OFFICIAL WHO RECENTLY JUSTIFIED 463 00:12:09,866 --> 00:12:11,999 THE OCTOBER 7 ATTACKS -- SHORTLY 464 00:12:12,068 --> 00:12:13,401 BEFORE THAT 2006 ELECTION. 465 00:12:13,470 --> 00:12:16,804 >> WE ARE A MODERATE 466 00:12:16,873 --> 00:12:18,272 ORGANIZATION, REALLY. 467 00:12:18,341 --> 00:12:20,475 WE ARE NOT RADICAL ORGANIZATION, 468 00:12:20,544 --> 00:12:21,042 AND WE ARE NOT EXTREMIST OR 469 00:12:21,111 --> 00:12:22,810 FUNDAMENTALIST. 470 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:23,344 NO, WE ARE AN OPEN-MINDED 471 00:12:23,413 --> 00:12:26,114 ORGANIZATION. 472 00:12:26,183 --> 00:12:27,014 WE BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY AND 473 00:12:27,083 --> 00:12:28,116 FREEDOM AND POLITICAL 474 00:12:28,185 --> 00:12:31,886 PLURALIZATION. 475 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:32,954 >> John: YEAH, HAMAS REALLY 476 00:12:33,023 --> 00:12:34,388 TRIED TO REBRAND ITSELF. 477 00:12:34,457 --> 00:12:35,923 KIND OF LIKE DOMINO'S DID WHEN 478 00:12:35,992 --> 00:12:37,291 THEY RAN ADS ADMITTING THAT "THE 479 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,060 SAUCE TASTES LIKE KETCHUP," "THE 480 00:12:39,129 --> 00:12:40,828 CRUST TASTES LIKE CARDBOARD," 481 00:12:40,897 --> 00:12:42,864 AND THEY PROMISED TO "WORK DAYS, 482 00:12:42,933 --> 00:12:43,431 NIGHTS, AND WEEKENDS" TO GET 483 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:44,165 BETTER. 484 00:12:44,234 --> 00:12:45,299 BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, LIKE 485 00:12:45,368 --> 00:12:46,067 DOMINO'S, HAMAS IS A TERRIBLE 486 00:12:46,136 --> 00:12:47,769 ORGANIZATION THAT IN NO WAY KEPT 487 00:12:47,838 --> 00:12:51,139 ITS PROMISES. 488 00:12:51,208 --> 00:12:52,507 BECAUSE IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING, 489 00:12:52,576 --> 00:12:53,808 THAT TONE OF OPEN-MINDED FREEDOM 490 00:12:53,877 --> 00:12:56,778 CLEARLY FELL AWAY. 491 00:12:56,847 --> 00:12:57,345 NOT ONLY HAS THERE NOT BEEN 492 00:12:57,414 --> 00:12:57,979 ANOTHER ELECTION, MOST PEOPLE IN 493 00:12:58,048 --> 00:12:58,613 GAZA DON'T BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE 494 00:12:58,682 --> 00:13:02,183 FREEDOM TO SPEAK OPENLY. 495 00:13:02,252 --> 00:13:02,817 ONE POLL FOUND THAT, UNDER HAMAS 496 00:13:02,886 --> 00:13:03,718 RULE, 68% BELIEVED THAT THE 497 00:13:03,787 --> 00:13:05,353 RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A 498 00:13:05,422 --> 00:13:07,522 PEACEFUL PROTEST WAS NOT 499 00:13:07,591 --> 00:13:08,156 PROTECTED, OR WAS PROTECTED ONLY 500 00:13:08,225 --> 00:13:11,058 TO A LIMITED EXTENT. 501 00:13:11,127 --> 00:13:11,626 AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS HAVE 502 00:13:11,695 --> 00:13:14,328 SAID THAT HAMAS FORCES HAVE 503 00:13:14,397 --> 00:13:14,962 CARRIED OUT A BRUTAL CAMPAIGN OF 504 00:13:15,031 --> 00:13:15,897 ABDUCTIONS, TORTURE, AND 505 00:13:15,966 --> 00:13:17,131 UNLAWFUL KILLINGS AGAINST 506 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,201 PALESTINIANS ACCUSED OF 507 00:13:20,270 --> 00:13:20,802 COLLABORATING WITH ISRAEL, AND 508 00:13:20,871 --> 00:13:22,970 HAVE ATTACKED MEMBERS AND 509 00:13:23,039 --> 00:13:23,604 SUPPORTERS OF FATAH, THEIR MAIN 510 00:13:23,673 --> 00:13:26,274 POLITICAL RIVAL. 511 00:13:26,343 --> 00:13:26,874 AND THE TRUTH IS, MANY GAZANS 512 00:13:26,943 --> 00:13:28,075 WILL SAY THEY DON'T WANT HAMAS 513 00:13:28,144 --> 00:13:28,910 IN CHARGE. 514 00:13:28,979 --> 00:13:30,545 POLLS SHOW IF TRUE PEACE WERE 515 00:13:30,614 --> 00:13:32,046 ACHIEVABLE, MANY PALESTINIANS 516 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:34,682 WOULD EMBRACE IT. 517 00:13:34,751 --> 00:13:35,249 IN FACT, ONE CONDUCTED RIGHT 518 00:13:35,318 --> 00:13:38,152 BEFORE OCTOBER 7 FOUND 73% 519 00:13:38,221 --> 00:13:38,853 FAVORING A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT 520 00:13:38,922 --> 00:13:40,421 TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN 521 00:13:40,490 --> 00:13:42,490 CONFLICT. 522 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:43,891 AND IT'S NOTABLE THAT IN JULY, 523 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:44,525 DESPITE ALL THE RESTRICTIONS ON 524 00:13:44,594 --> 00:13:46,627 DISSENT IN GAZA, THERE WERE 525 00:13:46,696 --> 00:13:47,595 ACTUALLY PEOPLE ON THE STREETS 526 00:13:47,664 --> 00:13:49,330 CHANTING SLOGANS INCLUDING, 527 00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:49,931 "FUCK OFF, HAMAS" AND "WE WANT 528 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,367 TO LIVE." 529 00:13:53,436 --> 00:13:53,968 AND LOOK, EVEN IF ALL 530 00:13:54,037 --> 00:13:56,471 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA DID SUPPORT 531 00:13:56,540 --> 00:13:58,339 HAMAS -- WHICH THEY DON'T -- THE 532 00:13:58,408 --> 00:13:58,973 RELENTLESS BOMBINGS OF CIVILIANS 533 00:13:59,042 --> 00:14:04,545 WOULD STILL BE ABHORRENT. 534 00:14:04,614 --> 00:14:05,146 COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR 535 00:14:05,215 --> 00:14:05,947 CRIME. 536 00:14:06,016 --> 00:14:07,715 BUT THE FACT IS, THERE IS MUCH 537 00:14:07,784 --> 00:14:08,349 MORE CRITICISM OF HAMAS IN GAZA 538 00:14:08,418 --> 00:14:11,219 THAN AMERICANS IN GENERAL, AND 539 00:14:11,288 --> 00:14:12,620 THESE DIPSHITS IN PARTICULAR, 540 00:14:12,689 --> 00:14:13,955 ARE WILLING TO ADMIT. 541 00:14:14,024 --> 00:14:15,356 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA ARE NOT A 542 00:14:15,425 --> 00:14:16,791 MONOLITH. 543 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:18,025 AND NOR, IMPORTANTLY, ARE 544 00:14:18,094 --> 00:14:19,427 ISRAELIS. 545 00:14:19,496 --> 00:14:20,628 BECAUSE NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT 546 00:14:20,697 --> 00:14:21,996 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, A MAN WHO 547 00:14:22,065 --> 00:14:24,499 HAS BEEN PRIME MINISTER OF 548 00:14:24,568 --> 00:14:25,299 ISRAEL FOR A COMBINED 16 YEARS, 549 00:14:25,368 --> 00:14:27,368 HERE IN THE U.S., DISCUSSION OF 550 00:14:27,437 --> 00:14:28,136 THE CURRENT CONFLICT SOMETIMES 551 00:14:28,205 --> 00:14:29,303 CONFLATES THE CURRENT ISRAELI 552 00:14:29,372 --> 00:14:30,571 GOVERNMENT WITH ISRAEL AS A 553 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:31,572 WHOLE, AS IF THE TWO ARE 554 00:14:31,641 --> 00:14:33,040 ENTIRELY REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH 555 00:14:33,109 --> 00:14:34,475 OTHER. 556 00:14:34,544 --> 00:14:36,377 YOU'LL HEAR, "WE NEED TO SUPPORT 557 00:14:36,446 --> 00:14:38,179 BIBI AND ISRAEL" OR "THIS IS NOT 558 00:14:38,248 --> 00:14:42,216 A TIME TO CRITICIZE NETANYAHU." 559 00:14:42,285 --> 00:14:43,518 BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITHIN 560 00:14:43,587 --> 00:14:46,587 ISRAEL. 561 00:14:46,656 --> 00:14:48,656 CRITICISM OF NETANYAHU THERE IS 562 00:14:48,725 --> 00:14:49,090 FIERCE. 563 00:14:49,159 --> 00:14:52,393 ONE POLL SHOW THAT 76% OF 564 00:14:52,462 --> 00:14:53,027 ISRAELIS WANT HIM GONE, AND MANY 565 00:14:53,096 --> 00:14:53,561 BLAME HIM FOR THE SECURITY 566 00:14:53,630 --> 00:14:54,061 LAPSES THAT LED TO THE 567 00:14:54,130 --> 00:14:55,263 OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK. 568 00:14:55,332 --> 00:14:56,898 AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT 569 00:14:56,967 --> 00:14:58,766 ATTACK, VIDEOS WENT VIRAL OF 570 00:14:58,835 --> 00:14:59,367 NETANYAHU MINISTERS VISITING 571 00:14:59,436 --> 00:15:02,503 HOSPITALS WHERE SOME OF THE 572 00:15:02,572 --> 00:15:03,104 VICTIMS WERE RECUPERATING, AND 573 00:15:03,173 --> 00:15:03,471 BEING YELLED AT. 574 00:15:03,540 --> 00:15:04,071 JUST WATCH THIS ONE MINISTER 575 00:15:04,140 --> 00:15:04,772 ESSENTIALLY GET CHASED OUT OF 576 00:15:04,841 --> 00:15:07,608 THE HOSPITAL, FIRST BY A FAMILY 577 00:15:07,677 --> 00:15:09,210 MEMBER, AND THEN BY SOMEBODY WHO 578 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:14,449 WORKED THERE. 579 00:15:14,518 --> 00:15:15,450 >> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH 580 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:22,519 LANGUAGE] 581 00:15:40,510 --> 00:15:41,976 >> John: THAT'S PRETTY INTENSE. 582 00:15:42,045 --> 00:15:44,178 I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT 583 00:15:44,247 --> 00:15:44,812 MEDICINE, BUT AFTER SEEING THAT, 584 00:15:44,881 --> 00:15:45,513 I'M GOING TO ASSUME THE 585 00:15:45,582 --> 00:15:47,548 HIPPOCRATIC OATH ACTUALLY GOES, 586 00:15:47,617 --> 00:15:48,483 "FIRST DO NO HARM," AND SECOND 587 00:15:48,552 --> 00:15:50,084 "IF UNWELCOME GOVERNMENT 588 00:15:50,153 --> 00:15:50,685 OFFICIALS ARE UPSETTING PEOPLE 589 00:15:50,754 --> 00:15:51,519 IN YOUR HOSPITAL, KICK THEM THE 590 00:15:51,588 --> 00:15:56,691 FUCK OUT." 591 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:57,258 BECAUSE HE'S CLAPPING AT HER 592 00:15:57,327 --> 00:15:58,392 THERE LIKE YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE 593 00:15:58,461 --> 00:15:59,026 TRYING TO GET A BIRD OUT OF YOUR 594 00:15:59,095 --> 00:16:01,362 HOUSE. 595 00:16:01,431 --> 00:16:01,863 AND WHILE THAT ANGER AT 596 00:16:01,932 --> 00:16:02,530 NETANYAHU HAS CERTAINLY 597 00:16:02,599 --> 00:16:04,232 INTENSIFIED SINCE OCTOBER 7, 598 00:16:04,301 --> 00:16:05,366 IT'S ALSO BEEN THERE FOR A LONG 599 00:16:05,435 --> 00:16:07,201 TIME. 600 00:16:07,270 --> 00:16:08,836 BEFORE THE ATTACK, ISRAEL SAW 601 00:16:08,905 --> 00:16:10,037 NEARLY 40 WEEKS OF PROTESTS, 602 00:16:10,106 --> 00:16:11,973 INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS 603 00:16:12,042 --> 00:16:12,673 OF ISRAELIS MARCHING IN THE 604 00:16:12,742 --> 00:16:14,976 STREETS, IN OPPOSITION TO HIS 605 00:16:15,045 --> 00:16:15,610 PLAN THAT WOULD EFFECTIVELY END 606 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:17,044 THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE 607 00:16:17,113 --> 00:16:17,745 JUDICIARY AND ENDANGER CIVIL 608 00:16:17,814 --> 00:16:19,914 RIGHTS. 609 00:16:19,983 --> 00:16:20,515 AND LOOK, NETANYAHU HAS ALWAYS 610 00:16:20,584 --> 00:16:22,784 BEEN A HARD-LINER. 611 00:16:22,853 --> 00:16:23,417 HE'S FORGED HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL 612 00:16:23,486 --> 00:16:24,752 PERSONA AROUND AN EXTREME 613 00:16:24,821 --> 00:16:25,920 VERSION OF "SAFETY THROUGH 614 00:16:25,989 --> 00:16:27,588 STRENGTH." 615 00:16:27,657 --> 00:16:28,222 WHICH HAS INCLUDED OPPOSITION TO 616 00:16:28,291 --> 00:16:30,291 THE PEACE PROCESS AT CRUCIAL 617 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,360 POINTS. 618 00:16:32,429 --> 00:16:34,328 WHEN FORMER ISRAELI PRIME 619 00:16:34,397 --> 00:16:35,630 MINISTER YITZAK RABIN AGREED TO 620 00:16:35,699 --> 00:16:36,964 THE OSLO PEACE ACCORDS, WHICH 621 00:16:37,033 --> 00:16:39,801 ATTEMPTED TO SET A FRAMEWORK FOR 622 00:16:39,870 --> 00:16:40,401 AN EVENTUAL RESOLUTION OF THE 623 00:16:40,470 --> 00:16:42,470 ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, 624 00:16:42,539 --> 00:16:43,070 NETANYAHU WAS FIERCELY AGAINST 625 00:16:43,139 --> 00:16:44,472 IT. 626 00:16:44,541 --> 00:16:45,640 INFAMOUSLY SPEAKING AT A RALLY 627 00:16:45,709 --> 00:16:48,075 WHERE PROTESTORS CHANTED "IN 628 00:16:48,144 --> 00:16:50,611 BLOOD AND FIRE, WE WILL EXPEL 629 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:51,078 RABIN," AND HELD ALOFT 630 00:16:51,147 --> 00:16:51,813 DEPICTIONS OF HIM IN A NAZI 631 00:16:51,882 --> 00:16:54,315 UNIFORM. 632 00:16:54,384 --> 00:16:54,849 SOON AFTER THAT, RABIN WAS 633 00:16:54,918 --> 00:16:57,185 KILLED BY A FAR-RIGHT ISRAELI 634 00:16:57,254 --> 00:16:58,219 EXTREMIST, AND RABIN'S WIDOW 635 00:16:58,288 --> 00:17:00,488 BLAMED NETANYAHU FOR STOKING THE 636 00:17:00,557 --> 00:17:03,291 FLAMES THAT LED TO THAT. 637 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:03,791 AND IN THE WAKE OF THAT 638 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:04,859 ASSASSINATION, NETANYAHU'S 639 00:17:04,928 --> 00:17:07,728 POLITICAL CAREER SEEMED DEAD. 640 00:17:07,797 --> 00:17:08,362 AND IT WASN'T UNTIL A SERIES OF 641 00:17:08,431 --> 00:17:10,665 BUS BOMBINGS BY HAMAS IN ISRAEL 642 00:17:10,734 --> 00:17:11,299 -- AS PART OF THEIR OWN EFFORTS 643 00:17:11,368 --> 00:17:18,368 TO DERAIL THE PEACE ACCORDS -- 644 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:30,084 THAT NETANYAHU WAS FIRST ELECTED 645 00:17:30,153 --> 00:17:30,451 PRIME MINISTER. 646 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:31,052 AND HIS MESSAGE, "I'M THE ONLY 647 00:17:31,121 --> 00:17:31,652 ONE WHO CAN KEEP YOU SAFE" HAS 648 00:17:31,721 --> 00:17:32,220 BEEN CONSISTENT EVER SINCE. 649 00:17:32,289 --> 00:17:32,787 HERE HE IS IN THE RUN-UP TO 650 00:17:32,856 --> 00:17:33,421 ISRAEL'S 2014 ELECTION, MAKING 651 00:17:33,490 --> 00:17:33,821 THAT POINT AGAIN. 652 00:17:33,890 --> 00:17:34,422 >> I FEEL THE JEWISH NATION IS 653 00:17:34,491 --> 00:17:41,491 UNDER THREAT, AND I'M PREPARED 654 00:17:42,332 --> 00:17:42,763 TO MITIGATE THAT DANGER. 655 00:17:42,832 --> 00:17:43,364 IT'S WHAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL 656 00:17:43,433 --> 00:17:43,998 EXPECTS FROM ME, AND IT'S WHAT 657 00:17:44,067 --> 00:17:44,232 I'LL DO. 658 00:17:44,301 --> 00:17:44,899 >> John: THAT'S A BIG CLAIM THAT 659 00:17:44,968 --> 00:17:45,900 HASN'T JUST DATED VERY WELL. 660 00:17:45,969 --> 00:17:46,434 HONESTLY, I HAVEN'T SEEN A 661 00:17:46,503 --> 00:17:49,103 POLITICIAN'S WORDS AGE SO POORLY 662 00:17:49,172 --> 00:17:49,704 SINCE HILLARY CLINTON TWEETED 663 00:17:49,773 --> 00:17:56,773 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS FUTURE 664 00:17:56,780 --> 00:17:57,011 PRESIDENT." 665 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:57,478 SO HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN 666 00:17:57,547 --> 00:17:57,779 HARD-RIGHT. 667 00:17:57,848 --> 00:17:58,379 BUT IT'S WORTH TAKING A MINUTE 668 00:17:58,448 --> 00:18:02,917 TO UNDERSCORE JUST HOW EXTREME 669 00:18:02,986 --> 00:18:03,451 HIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS. 670 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:08,589 BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, NETANYAHU 671 00:18:08,658 --> 00:18:09,157 HAS BEEN STRUGGLING TO HOLD 672 00:18:09,226 --> 00:18:09,490 OFFICE THERE. 673 00:18:09,559 --> 00:18:10,057 AND ISRAEL HAD TO ENDURE TK 674 00:18:10,126 --> 00:18:10,658 ELECTIONS, BECAUSE NO ONE WAS 675 00:18:10,727 --> 00:18:11,159 ABLE TO FORM A MAJORITY. 676 00:18:11,228 --> 00:18:11,893 HE ONLY MADE IT BACK INTO POWER 677 00:18:11,962 --> 00:18:14,362 LAST YEAR, BY FORMING A 678 00:18:14,431 --> 00:18:14,929 COALITION WITH THOSE ON THE 679 00:18:14,998 --> 00:18:15,530 FURTHEST RIGHT WING OF ISRAELI 680 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:16,164 POLITICS -- LEADING TO THE MOST 681 00:18:16,233 --> 00:18:16,731 RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT IN THE 682 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:21,669 COUNTRY'S HISTORY. 683 00:18:21,738 --> 00:18:22,236 HIS CABINET IS STOCKED WITH 684 00:18:22,305 --> 00:18:22,537 EXTREMISTS. 685 00:18:22,606 --> 00:18:29,606 TAKE ITAMAR BEN-GVIR. 686 00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:30,945 HE'S BEEN CONVICTED ON AT LEAST 687 00:18:31,014 --> 00:18:31,446 EIGHT CHARGES, INCLUDING 688 00:18:31,515 --> 00:18:31,913 SUPPORTING A TERRORIST 689 00:18:31,982 --> 00:18:35,082 ORGANIZATION AND INCITEMENT TO 690 00:18:35,151 --> 00:18:35,550 RACISM. 691 00:18:35,619 --> 00:18:39,687 HE WAS ONCE CONSIDERED SO 692 00:18:39,756 --> 00:18:40,221 FRINGE, THIS ISRAELI ARMY 693 00:18:40,290 --> 00:18:43,257 REJECTED HIM FROM MANDATORY 694 00:18:43,326 --> 00:18:43,925 SERVICE. 695 00:18:43,994 --> 00:18:44,425 BUT HE'S NOW NETANYAHU'S 696 00:18:44,494 --> 00:18:45,026 MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY. 697 00:18:45,095 --> 00:18:49,597 MEANWHILE, HIS CURRENT FINANCE 698 00:18:49,666 --> 00:18:50,231 MINISTER, BEZALEL SMOTRICH, HAS 699 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:50,832 SAID, "IS THERE A PALESTINIAN 700 00:18:50,901 --> 00:18:51,265 HISTORY OR CULTURE? 701 00:18:51,334 --> 00:18:51,599 THERE IS NONE. 702 00:18:51,668 --> 00:18:52,166 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 703 00:18:52,235 --> 00:18:53,167 PALESTINIAN PEOPLE." 704 00:18:53,236 --> 00:18:53,801 HE'S ALSO ADVOCATED FOR "VICTORY 705 00:18:53,870 --> 00:18:56,270 THROUGH SETTLEMENT," BASICALLY 706 00:18:56,339 --> 00:18:56,871 SEIZING LAND IN THE WEST BANK, 707 00:18:56,940 --> 00:18:57,472 AND DRIVING PALESTINIANS FROM 708 00:18:57,541 --> 00:19:00,942 THEIR HOMES TO THE POINT WHERE, 709 00:19:01,011 --> 00:19:01,542 QUOTE, "I ABORT THEIR HOPES OF 710 00:19:01,611 --> 00:19:05,880 ESTABLISHING A STATE." 711 00:19:05,949 --> 00:19:06,481 SETTLEMENTS ARE WIDELY 712 00:19:06,550 --> 00:19:06,981 UNDERSTOOD TO BE AGAINST 713 00:19:07,050 --> 00:19:11,419 INTERNATIONAL LAW, YET SMOTRICH 714 00:19:11,488 --> 00:19:12,120 WANTS A MASSIVE EXPANSION OF 715 00:19:12,189 --> 00:19:13,354 THEM, AND NETANYHAU GAVE HIM A 716 00:19:13,423 --> 00:19:13,888 SPECIAL ROLE IN CHARGE OF 717 00:19:13,957 --> 00:19:17,492 SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS. 718 00:19:17,561 --> 00:19:18,126 BUT PERHAPS THE MOST SURPRISING 719 00:19:18,195 --> 00:19:18,726 WAY NETANYAHU HAS JEOPARDIZED 720 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:21,295 ISRAEL'S SAFETY IS THAT, FOR 721 00:19:21,364 --> 00:19:21,863 YEARS, HE DELIBERATELY USED 722 00:19:21,932 --> 00:19:22,497 HAMAS AS A WAY TO UNDERMINE THE 723 00:19:22,566 --> 00:19:24,765 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, A RIVAL 724 00:19:24,834 --> 00:19:29,170 TO HAMAS, WHICH ADMINISTERS 725 00:19:29,239 --> 00:19:30,204 PARTS OF THE WEST BANK AND HAS 726 00:19:30,273 --> 00:19:30,772 MUCH MORE LEGITIMACY ON THE 727 00:19:30,841 --> 00:19:31,439 WORLD STAGE. 728 00:19:31,508 --> 00:19:33,374 EXPERTS SAY THE IDEA WAS 729 00:19:33,443 --> 00:19:34,008 BASICALLY DIVIDE AND CONQUER -- 730 00:19:34,077 --> 00:19:37,378 IF PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP 731 00:19:37,447 --> 00:19:37,979 REMAINS SPLIT, AND ONE OF THE 732 00:19:38,048 --> 00:19:40,281 MAIN PARTIES AT THE TABLE HAS A 733 00:19:40,350 --> 00:19:40,848 TERRORISM LABEL ON IT, IT'S 734 00:19:40,917 --> 00:19:41,816 GOING TO BE MUCH EASIER FOR 735 00:19:41,885 --> 00:19:42,416 NETANYAHU TO REFUSE TO ENGAGE 736 00:19:42,485 --> 00:19:43,584 WITH THEM, AND SAY HE HAS "NO 737 00:19:43,653 --> 00:19:46,854 PARTNER FOR PEACE." 738 00:19:46,923 --> 00:19:47,488 HERE'S SMOTRICH EXPLAINING THAT 739 00:19:47,557 --> 00:19:51,592 STRATEGY OUT LOUD IN 2015. 740 00:19:51,661 --> 00:19:54,562 >> THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IS 741 00:19:54,631 --> 00:19:55,062 A BURDEN AND HAMAS IS A 742 00:19:55,131 --> 00:19:56,564 TERRORIST ORGANIZATION THAT NO 743 00:19:56,633 --> 00:19:58,933 ONE WILL RECOGNIZE, AND NO ONE 744 00:19:59,002 --> 00:20:00,535 WILL GIVE IT STATUS IN THE ICC. 745 00:20:00,604 --> 00:20:01,736 NO ONE WILL LET THEM LEAD A 746 00:20:01,805 --> 00:20:02,537 DECISION IN THE SECURITY 747 00:20:02,606 --> 00:20:03,704 COUNCIL. 748 00:20:03,773 --> 00:20:06,474 THE MAIN PITCH WE ARE PLAYING 749 00:20:06,543 --> 00:20:06,908 NOW IS INTERNATIONAL 750 00:20:06,977 --> 00:20:07,708 DELEGITIMIZATION. 751 00:20:07,777 --> 00:20:08,676 HAMAS AT THIS POINT, IN MY 752 00:20:08,745 --> 00:20:11,145 OPINION, WILL BE AN ASSET. 753 00:20:11,214 --> 00:20:12,914 >> John: "HAMAS IS AN ASSET." 754 00:20:12,983 --> 00:20:14,615 IF YOU'RE CALLING THE GROUP THAT 755 00:20:14,684 --> 00:20:15,149 HAS REPEATEDLY KILLED YOUR 756 00:20:15,218 --> 00:20:18,352 PEOPLE AN ASSET, IT SHOWS PRETTY 757 00:20:18,421 --> 00:20:18,986 CLEARLY THAT WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT 758 00:20:19,055 --> 00:20:21,689 ISN'T SAFETY, BUT TOTAL CONTROL. 759 00:20:21,758 --> 00:20:22,223 AND FOR YEARS, NETANYAHU'S 760 00:20:22,292 --> 00:20:22,857 GOVERNMENT WAS ACTUALLY ALLOWING 761 00:20:22,926 --> 00:20:25,393 SUITCASES OF CASH TO BE 762 00:20:25,462 --> 00:20:26,527 DELIVERED TO HAMAS, SOMETHING BY 763 00:20:26,596 --> 00:20:31,332 THE WAY THAT EARNED SUITCASES OF 764 00:20:31,401 --> 00:20:31,899 CASH THE TITLE "MOST MORALLY 765 00:20:31,968 --> 00:20:32,500 DISREPUTABLE WAY TO TRANSFER 766 00:20:32,569 --> 00:20:33,100 MONEY" FOR THE NINE HUNDREDTH 767 00:20:33,169 --> 00:20:34,902 YEAR IN A ROW. 768 00:20:34,971 --> 00:20:35,603 WHEN THE SCANDAL BROKE, 769 00:20:35,672 --> 00:20:37,004 NETANYAHU INSISTED THAT THAT 770 00:20:37,073 --> 00:20:37,638 MONEY WAS FOR HUMANITARIAN AID. 771 00:20:37,707 --> 00:20:44,445 WHICH STILL DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHY 772 00:20:44,514 --> 00:20:44,979 IT HAD TO BE DELIVERED IN 773 00:20:45,048 --> 00:20:45,646 LUGGAGE IN THE BACK OF A FUCKING 774 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:45,813 CAR. 775 00:20:45,882 --> 00:20:47,081 THE POINT IS, NETANYAHU TOOK THE 776 00:20:47,150 --> 00:20:48,516 RISK OF BETTING THAT HE COULD 777 00:20:48,585 --> 00:20:49,884 CONTROL HAMAS, AND USE THEM TO 778 00:20:49,953 --> 00:20:51,319 HIS OWN ENDS. 779 00:20:51,388 --> 00:20:52,753 AND HE WAS HORRIBLY WRONG ABOUT 780 00:20:52,822 --> 00:20:53,921 THAT, TO THE POINT THAT HIS 781 00:20:53,990 --> 00:20:54,822 MINISTERS ARE NOW GETTING 782 00:20:54,891 --> 00:20:56,824 SCREAMED OUT OF HOSPITALS. 783 00:20:56,893 --> 00:20:58,392 SO, TO RECAP SO FAR: 784 00:20:58,461 --> 00:20:59,560 PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS HAVE 785 00:20:59,629 --> 00:21:01,028 BOTH BEEN RELENTLESSLY LET DOWN 786 00:21:01,097 --> 00:21:03,397 BY THEIR LEADERS', AND THE 787 00:21:03,466 --> 00:21:04,665 RESULT HAS BEEN A DECADES-LONG 788 00:21:04,734 --> 00:21:06,300 CYCLE OF EXTREMISM, VIOLENCE, 789 00:21:06,369 --> 00:21:07,902 RETALIATION, AND MORE EXTREMISM. 790 00:21:07,971 --> 00:21:09,837 AND PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN ON 791 00:21:09,906 --> 00:21:10,638 THE RECEIVING END OF THAT 792 00:21:10,707 --> 00:21:12,507 EXTREMISM TWICE OVER -- SUBJECT 793 00:21:12,576 --> 00:21:14,242 TO THE INADEQUACIES AND 794 00:21:14,311 --> 00:21:16,744 CRUELTIES OF A HAMAS GOVERNMENT 795 00:21:16,813 --> 00:21:18,412 AND THE PUNISHING ISOLATION AND 796 00:21:18,481 --> 00:21:20,948 DAILY MISERY OF AN ISRAELI ONE. 797 00:21:21,017 --> 00:21:21,516 BECAUSE ISRAEL'S APPROACH TO 798 00:21:21,585 --> 00:21:23,785 GAZA HAS BEEN PUNISHING -- 799 00:21:23,854 --> 00:21:25,520 FENCING PEOPLE IN, LIMITING 800 00:21:25,589 --> 00:21:26,954 EXITS, AND TRAPPING THEM INSIDE 801 00:21:27,023 --> 00:21:28,389 OF WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED AN 802 00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:28,990 OPEN-AIR PRISON BY MANY HUMAN 803 00:21:29,059 --> 00:21:32,293 RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS. 804 00:21:32,362 --> 00:21:33,427 LIFE UNDER A BLOCKADE THERE HAS 805 00:21:33,496 --> 00:21:34,595 BEEN HARD FOR A LONG TIME, EVEN 806 00:21:34,664 --> 00:21:38,166 WHEN THERE AREN'T BOMBS FLYING. 807 00:21:38,235 --> 00:21:38,800 >> THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS JUST 808 00:21:38,869 --> 00:21:40,568 10% OF GAZA'S TWO MILLION PEOPLE 809 00:21:40,637 --> 00:21:43,571 HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING 810 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:44,705 WATER. 811 00:21:44,774 --> 00:21:47,108 >> MY CHILDREN GET SICK BECAUSE 812 00:21:47,177 --> 00:21:49,644 OF THE WATER. 813 00:21:49,713 --> 00:21:50,411 THEY SUFFER FROM VOMITING, 814 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:51,646 DIARRHEA. 815 00:21:51,715 --> 00:21:54,315 >> ALL THE STREETS ARE FULL OF 816 00:21:54,384 --> 00:21:54,849 TRASHES, ALL OF GARBAGE. 817 00:21:54,918 --> 00:21:55,416 ALL THE PEOPLE, THEY HAVE NO 818 00:21:55,485 --> 00:21:56,784 WORK. 819 00:21:56,853 --> 00:21:58,986 THEY HAVE NO EMPLOYMENT. 820 00:21:59,055 --> 00:22:01,255 >> WHEN PEOPLE HERE RUN OUT OF 821 00:22:01,324 --> 00:22:01,889 ELECTRICITY HERE, THEY ONLY GET 822 00:22:01,958 --> 00:22:03,157 THREE HOURS A DAY. 823 00:22:03,226 --> 00:22:05,193 THEY CAN EITHER BUY A SMALL 824 00:22:05,262 --> 00:22:06,928 BATTERY TO TRY TO OPERATE 825 00:22:06,997 --> 00:22:07,895 LIGHTS, OR THEY JUST GO OUTSIDE 826 00:22:07,964 --> 00:22:08,696 AND LIGHT FIRES. 827 00:22:08,765 --> 00:22:10,698 >> THIS LIFE HAS GIVEN IMAD, 828 00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:12,333 LIKE MANY GAZANS, A SENSE OF 829 00:22:12,402 --> 00:22:14,435 HAVING LITTLE TO LOSE. 830 00:22:14,504 --> 00:22:17,405 >> John: YEAH, YOU REALLY CAN'T 831 00:22:17,474 --> 00:22:18,739 BLAME THEM FOR FEELING THAT WAY. 832 00:22:18,808 --> 00:22:19,340 ONCE YOU'VE LOST CLEAN WATER, 833 00:22:19,409 --> 00:22:19,974 SANITARY SPACE, JOB PROSPECTS, 834 00:22:20,043 --> 00:22:20,575 AND MOST ELECTRICITY, THERE'S 835 00:22:20,644 --> 00:22:21,209 NOT REALLY MUCH LEFT TO LOSE BUT 836 00:22:21,278 --> 00:22:23,644 HOPE. 837 00:22:23,713 --> 00:22:27,515 AND IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT 838 00:22:27,584 --> 00:22:28,116 THERE IS ONE MORE MAJOR PLAYER 839 00:22:28,185 --> 00:22:29,617 IN ALL THIS THAT I HAVEN'T 840 00:22:29,686 --> 00:22:30,284 MENTIONED, AND IT'S US. 841 00:22:30,353 --> 00:22:32,186 AND I DON'T JUST MEAN THE 842 00:22:32,255 --> 00:22:33,321 BRITISH, WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY 843 00:22:33,390 --> 00:22:34,989 RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THIS. 844 00:22:35,058 --> 00:22:36,224 I'M TALKING ABOUT AMERICA. 845 00:22:36,293 --> 00:22:37,625 BECAUSE THIS COUNTRY HAS 846 00:22:37,694 --> 00:22:40,361 EMPHATICALLY PICKED A SIDE. 847 00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:40,928 IN RECENT YEARS, WE'VE GIVEN 848 00:22:40,997 --> 00:22:42,897 ISRAEL $3.8 BILLION A YEAR IN 849 00:22:42,966 --> 00:22:43,965 MILITARY AID. 850 00:22:44,034 --> 00:22:45,066 AND YOU CAN MAKE GEOPOLITICAL 851 00:22:45,135 --> 00:22:46,033 ARGUMENTS FOR WHY THAT IS OR 852 00:22:46,102 --> 00:22:47,068 ISN'T A VALID THING TO DO. 853 00:22:47,137 --> 00:22:48,703 BUT IT MEANS WE ARE HEAVILY 854 00:22:48,772 --> 00:22:49,337 IMPLICATED IN EVERYTHING YOU'VE 855 00:22:49,406 --> 00:22:50,638 JUST SEEN. 856 00:22:50,707 --> 00:22:54,375 JUST LISTEN TO BASSAM ARAMIN, A 857 00:22:54,444 --> 00:22:55,676 PALESTINIAN WHOSE TEN-YEAR-OLD 858 00:22:55,745 --> 00:22:56,511 DAUGHTER WAS KILLED BY AN 859 00:22:56,580 --> 00:22:59,113 ISRAELI BORDER GUARD IN 2007. 860 00:22:59,182 --> 00:22:59,847 >> MY DAUGHTER HAS BEEN KILLED 861 00:22:59,916 --> 00:23:01,516 WITH AN AMERICAN RUBBER BULLET, 862 00:23:01,585 --> 00:23:02,984 UNFORTUNATELY, FROM AN AMERICAN 863 00:23:03,053 --> 00:23:06,220 M16, UNFORTUNATELY, FROM AN 864 00:23:06,289 --> 00:23:07,822 AMERICAN JEEP, AN AMERICAN 865 00:23:07,891 --> 00:23:08,389 UNIFORM, AND THE SOLDIER HAD 866 00:23:08,458 --> 00:23:12,160 TRAINED IN AMERICA. 867 00:23:12,229 --> 00:23:14,662 SO EVERYTHING IS AMERICAN. 868 00:23:14,731 --> 00:23:15,029 >> John: RIGHT. 869 00:23:15,098 --> 00:23:15,563 "EVERYTHING IS AMERICAN." 870 00:23:15,632 --> 00:23:16,197 AND I KNOW THAT'S HARD TO HEAR. 871 00:23:16,266 --> 00:23:21,269 BUT THE FACT IS, "MADE IN 872 00:23:21,338 --> 00:23:21,869 AMERICA" IS SOMETHING THAT WE 873 00:23:21,938 --> 00:23:23,004 UNDERSTANDABLY LOVE TO BRAG 874 00:23:23,073 --> 00:23:25,773 ABOUT WHEN IT'S THINGS WE'RE 875 00:23:25,842 --> 00:23:26,541 PROUD OF, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S 876 00:23:26,610 --> 00:23:28,242 NOT JUST TRACTORS, TRUCK NUTS 877 00:23:28,311 --> 00:23:30,011 AND TOBY KEITH SONGS. 878 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:30,578 SOMETIMES IT'S STUFF THAT'S 879 00:23:30,647 --> 00:23:37,647 KILLING PEOPLE. 880 00:23:38,021 --> 00:23:38,519 AND SO, HAVING EXPLAINED AT 881 00:23:38,588 --> 00:23:39,120 LEAST SOME OF HOW WE GOT HERE, 882 00:23:39,189 --> 00:23:39,720 NOW MIGHT BE THE TIME TO TALK 883 00:23:39,789 --> 00:23:40,154 ABOUT WHERE WE ARE. 884 00:23:40,223 --> 00:23:40,788 AS OF RIGHT NOW, HAMAS IS STILL 885 00:23:40,857 --> 00:23:43,693 REFUSING TO RELEASE THE HOSTAGES 886 00:23:45,228 --> 00:23:45,626 AND ISRAEL, IS BOMBING 887 00:23:45,695 --> 00:23:46,494 RELENTLESSLY, AND AGAIN, 888 00:23:46,563 --> 00:23:47,094 THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN KILLED SO 889 00:23:47,163 --> 00:23:54,163 FAR. 890 00:23:54,971 --> 00:23:55,503 ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN SOME 891 00:23:55,572 --> 00:23:56,104 MADDENING EFFORTS TO DOWNPLAY 892 00:23:56,173 --> 00:24:01,175 THE SUFFERING IN GAZA -- LIKE 893 00:24:01,244 --> 00:24:03,077 WHEN ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR TO THE 894 00:24:03,146 --> 00:24:03,845 U.N. SAID THIS, LAST WEEKEND. 895 00:24:03,914 --> 00:24:05,646 >> THERE IS NO HUMANITARIAN 896 00:24:05,715 --> 00:24:07,915 CRISIS IN GAZA. 897 00:24:07,984 --> 00:24:09,383 IN COORDINATION WITH THE U.S. 898 00:24:09,452 --> 00:24:10,785 AND THE U.N., WE ALLOWED THE 899 00:24:10,854 --> 00:24:12,386 NUMBER OF TRUCKS ENTERING GAZA 900 00:24:12,455 --> 00:24:15,490 NOW WITH FOOD AND MEDICINES TO 901 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:17,992 REACH ALMOST 100 TRUCKS EVERY 902 00:24:18,061 --> 00:24:20,695 DAY. 903 00:24:20,764 --> 00:24:21,329 >> YOU'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, THAT 904 00:24:21,398 --> 00:24:21,963 THERE IS NO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS 905 00:24:22,032 --> 00:24:24,632 IN GAZA. 906 00:24:24,701 --> 00:24:26,934 THAT'S KIND OF AN AMAZING 907 00:24:27,003 --> 00:24:27,535 STATEMENT, BECAUSE THERE WERE 908 00:24:27,604 --> 00:24:28,102 HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS THERE 909 00:24:28,171 --> 00:24:33,741 BEFORE THE WAR. 910 00:24:33,810 --> 00:24:37,812 AND NOW, OBVIOUSLY, IT HAS 911 00:24:37,881 --> 00:24:39,046 GOTTEN BAD. 912 00:24:39,115 --> 00:24:39,614 >> BUT, DANA -- OKAY, SO... 913 00:24:39,683 --> 00:24:40,181 >> TAKE THEIR NUMBERS ASIDE. 914 00:24:40,250 --> 00:24:40,748 IT HAS GOTTEN TO THE CRISIS 915 00:24:40,817 --> 00:24:44,652 POINT. 916 00:24:44,721 --> 00:24:45,253 >> YES, BUT I'M NOT -- NO, I'M 917 00:24:45,322 --> 00:24:46,053 NOT SAYING THAT THE LIFE IN GAZA 918 00:24:46,122 --> 00:24:53,122 IS GREAT. 919 00:24:53,730 --> 00:24:54,061 >> John: OH, OKAY. 920 00:24:54,130 --> 00:24:54,695 "I'M NOT SAYING IT'S GREAT" IS A 921 00:24:54,764 --> 00:24:55,263 SEVERE UNDERSTATEMENT THERE. 922 00:24:55,332 --> 00:24:57,031 THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SAY WHEN 923 00:24:57,100 --> 00:24:57,665 YOU'RE DESCRIBING THE BAND AT A 924 00:24:57,734 --> 00:24:59,734 WEDDING, OR A SANDWICH FROM 925 00:24:59,803 --> 00:25:00,234 PANERA BREAD. 926 00:25:00,303 --> 00:25:00,835 BUT IT'S NOT HOW YOU DESCRIBE 927 00:25:00,904 --> 00:25:02,870 LIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING 928 00:25:02,939 --> 00:25:03,337 WAR ZONE. 929 00:25:03,406 --> 00:25:04,705 BECAUSE THOSE ON THE GROUND IN 930 00:25:04,774 --> 00:25:05,673 GAZA WILL TELL YOU IT'S 931 00:25:05,742 --> 00:25:09,444 ABSOLUTELY A HUMANITARIAN 932 00:25:09,513 --> 00:25:09,911 CRISIS. 933 00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:10,511 JUST THIS WOMAN WHO WORKS WITH 934 00:25:10,580 --> 00:25:17,018 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS. 935 00:25:17,087 --> 00:25:17,652 >> IT IS THE WORST HUMANITARIAN 936 00:25:17,721 --> 00:25:18,252 CATASTROPHE I HAVE EXPERIENCED 937 00:25:18,321 --> 00:25:22,723 IN MY LIFETIME. 938 00:25:22,792 --> 00:25:23,357 YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN ACRONYM IN 939 00:25:23,426 --> 00:25:28,763 THE GAZA STRIP RIGHT NOW. 940 00:25:28,832 --> 00:25:29,297 YOU KNOW, I'M A PEDIATRIC 941 00:25:29,366 --> 00:25:29,897 INTENSIVE CARE DOCTOR, I SEE A 942 00:25:29,966 --> 00:25:30,498 LOT OF SUFFERING IN MY CAREER. 943 00:25:30,567 --> 00:25:31,132 THERE IS AN ACRONYM IN THE GAZA 944 00:25:31,201 --> 00:25:31,466 STRIP, WCNSF. 945 00:25:31,535 --> 00:25:32,033 WOUNDED CHILD, NO SURVIVING 946 00:25:32,102 --> 00:25:39,102 FAMILY. 947 00:25:41,845 --> 00:25:42,376 CHILDREN -- AND IT IS USED NOT 948 00:25:42,445 --> 00:25:42,977 INFREQUENTLY IN THE LAST THREE 949 00:25:43,046 --> 00:25:43,177 WEEKS. 950 00:25:43,246 --> 00:25:43,744 WOUNDED CHILD, NO SURVIVING 951 00:25:43,813 --> 00:25:44,345 FAMILY SHOULD NOT EXIST AS AN 952 00:25:44,414 --> 00:25:44,579 ACRONYM. 953 00:25:44,648 --> 00:25:45,046 >> John: SHE'S RIGHT. 954 00:25:45,115 --> 00:25:45,646 AND, PERSONALLY, I'M GOING TO 955 00:25:45,715 --> 00:25:46,514 TAKE MY CUES ABOUT WHAT 956 00:25:46,583 --> 00:25:47,315 CONSTITUTES A HUMANITARIAN 957 00:25:47,384 --> 00:25:49,250 CRISIS FROM THE HUMANITARIANS. 958 00:25:49,319 --> 00:25:49,884 AND I REALLY DON'T HAVE IT IN ME 959 00:25:49,953 --> 00:25:52,820 TO SHOW YOU FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE IN 960 00:25:52,889 --> 00:25:53,154 AGONY TONIGHT. 961 00:25:53,223 --> 00:25:57,091 BUT I DO WANT YOU TO SEE SOME 962 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:57,592 KIDS IN GAZA WHO'VE BEEN 963 00:25:57,661 --> 00:25:58,259 DISPLACED, SPEAK ABOUT WHAT 964 00:25:58,328 --> 00:26:02,363 THEY'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH. 965 00:26:02,432 --> 00:26:09,432 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE] 966 00:26:54,251 --> 00:26:55,283 >> John: YEAH, I'D REALLY LIKE 967 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:57,785 THEM TO BE ABLE TO CHILL THE 968 00:26:57,854 --> 00:26:58,486 FUCK OUT, TOO. 969 00:26:58,555 --> 00:26:59,053 BECAUSE KIDS SHOULD NEVER BE 970 00:26:59,122 --> 00:27:02,056 LOSING SLEEP DUE TO FEAR OF WAR, 971 00:27:02,125 --> 00:27:02,690 THEY SHOULD ONLY BE LOSING SLEEP 972 00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:04,625 FOR COMPLETELY NORMAL KID 973 00:27:04,694 --> 00:27:05,460 REASONS, LIKE TUMMY ACHES FROM 974 00:27:05,529 --> 00:27:09,497 EATING TOO MUCH CANDY OR -- 975 00:27:09,566 --> 00:27:10,131 APPARENTLY, FOR AUSTRALIAN KIDS 976 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,998 -- STAYING UP EXCITED ALL NIGHT 977 00:27:11,067 --> 00:27:17,638 BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE AND 978 00:27:17,707 --> 00:27:18,239 YOU CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IF SANTA 979 00:27:18,308 --> 00:27:19,407 BROUGHT YOU A BRAND NEW BAG FOR 980 00:27:19,476 --> 00:27:20,041 ALL OF YOUR HOLIDAY HAM FOR SOME 981 00:27:20,110 --> 00:27:20,475 DEEPLY WEIRD REASON. 982 00:27:20,544 --> 00:27:23,344 IT SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH 983 00:27:23,413 --> 00:27:25,847 THOSE KIDS AND NOT FEEL 984 00:27:25,916 --> 00:27:26,514 SHATTERED. 985 00:27:26,583 --> 00:27:27,148 THERE IS A NATURAL HUMAN IMPULSE 986 00:27:27,217 --> 00:27:27,582 TO PROTECT CHILDREN. 987 00:27:27,651 --> 00:27:28,216 TO GRAB A TODDLER YOU DON'T KNOW 988 00:27:28,285 --> 00:27:28,783 IF YOU SEE THEM RUNNING INTO 989 00:27:28,852 --> 00:27:32,753 TRAFFIC. 990 00:27:32,822 --> 00:27:33,387 AND IF THAT IMPULSE IS BROKEN OR 991 00:27:33,456 --> 00:27:34,021 DISINCENTIVIZED BY A GOVERNMENT, 992 00:27:34,090 --> 00:27:34,489 THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A 993 00:27:34,558 --> 00:27:35,723 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. 994 00:27:35,792 --> 00:27:36,324 NO MATTER WHAT ANY ASSHOLE HAS 995 00:27:36,393 --> 00:27:39,193 TO SAY ABOUT IT. 996 00:27:39,262 --> 00:27:39,694 AND LOOK, I DON'T HAVE A 997 00:27:39,763 --> 00:27:42,463 SOLUTION FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE 998 00:27:42,532 --> 00:27:42,763 EAST. 999 00:27:42,832 --> 00:27:43,297 AND EVEN IF I DID -- WHICH 1000 00:27:43,366 --> 00:27:43,931 AGAIN, I DON'T -- THIS WOULD BE 1001 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,534 THE WORST VOICE IN WHICH TO 1002 00:27:46,603 --> 00:27:49,904 RELAY THAT MESSAGE. 1003 00:27:49,973 --> 00:27:50,404 BUT IT DOES SEEM TO ME, 1004 00:27:50,473 --> 00:27:52,807 PERSONALLY, THAT A CEASEFIRE HAS 1005 00:27:52,876 --> 00:27:53,975 TO BE THE FIRST STEP. 1006 00:27:54,044 --> 00:27:54,542 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE 1007 00:27:54,611 --> 00:27:55,610 HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR ALL OVER 1008 00:27:55,679 --> 00:27:56,677 THE WORLD, BUT IT'S SOMETHING 1009 00:27:56,746 --> 00:27:58,212 THAT WORLD LEADERS HAVE BEEN 1010 00:27:58,281 --> 00:27:59,747 RELUCTANT TO SAY. 1011 00:27:59,816 --> 00:28:00,381 JUST WATCH JUSTIN TRUDEAU ALMOST 1012 00:28:00,450 --> 00:28:01,682 SAY IT, AND THEN CORRECT 1013 00:28:01,751 --> 00:28:04,485 HIMSELF. 1014 00:28:04,554 --> 00:28:06,687 >> WE NEED TO SEE A CEASE -- UH, 1015 00:28:06,756 --> 00:28:09,223 WE NEED TO SEE A HUMANITARIAN 1016 00:28:09,292 --> 00:28:11,526 PAUSE SO WE CAN FLOW -- WE NEED 1017 00:28:11,595 --> 00:28:12,493 TO SEE A CEASING OF THE LEVELS 1018 00:28:12,562 --> 00:28:14,962 OF VIOLENCE THAT WE'RE SEEING. 1019 00:28:15,031 --> 00:28:17,899 >> John: WOW. 1020 00:28:17,968 --> 00:28:18,466 HE STOPPED HIMSELF MID-WORD. 1021 00:28:18,535 --> 00:28:19,433 HE LITERALLY ORDERED A CEASEFIRE 1022 00:28:19,502 --> 00:28:23,004 ON THE WORD "CEASEFIRE." 1023 00:28:23,073 --> 00:28:23,638 MY ONLY REGRET IS THAT HE DIDN'T 1024 00:28:23,707 --> 00:28:26,741 JUST KEEP THAT WORD SALAD, OR 1025 00:28:26,810 --> 00:28:27,375 WORD-POUTINE, GOING, "WE NEED A 1026 00:28:27,444 --> 00:28:28,843 CEASING OF THE VIOLENCE, A 1027 00:28:28,912 --> 00:28:31,078 STOPPING OF THE EXPLOSIONS -- 1028 00:28:31,147 --> 00:28:32,313 SORT OF A HALTING OF THE BOOMS, 1029 00:28:32,382 --> 00:28:33,080 IF YOU WILL? 1030 00:28:33,149 --> 00:28:39,854 A HALT-BOOM! 1031 00:28:39,923 --> 00:28:40,388 WOULD BE GREAT RIGHT NOW." 1032 00:28:40,457 --> 00:28:40,922 AND IT'S NOT JUST TRUDEAU. 1033 00:28:40,991 --> 00:28:41,522 JOE BIDEN HAS SAID THERE'S NO 1034 00:28:41,591 --> 00:28:41,856 CHANCE OF ONE. 1035 00:28:41,925 --> 00:28:42,457 WHICH IS A HELL OF A THING TO 1036 00:28:42,526 --> 00:28:43,491 HEAR FROM PERHAPS THE ONLY WORLD 1037 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,594 LEADER WHO COULD ACTUALLY EXERT 1038 00:28:46,663 --> 00:28:47,161 SOME PRESSURE HERE. 1039 00:28:47,230 --> 00:28:47,895 AND LISTEN, THERE ARE THOSE, 1040 00:28:47,964 --> 00:28:50,898 LIKE NOTED MID-EAST PEACE EXPERT 1041 00:28:50,967 --> 00:28:52,099 HARVEY LEVIN, WHO WILL SAY, NOT 1042 00:28:52,168 --> 00:28:53,501 WRONGLY, THAT THERE ARE REAL 1043 00:28:53,570 --> 00:28:54,836 DANGERS TO A CEASEFIRE -- THAT 1044 00:28:54,905 --> 00:28:56,170 HAMAS MIGHT REGROUP ONCE THE 1045 00:28:56,239 --> 00:28:58,606 BOMBING STOPS. 1046 00:28:58,675 --> 00:28:59,240 ALTHOUGH, THAT'S ARGUABLY GOING 1047 00:28:59,309 --> 00:29:00,308 TO BE A DANGER WHENEVER IT 1048 00:29:00,377 --> 00:29:01,476 STOPS. 1049 00:29:01,545 --> 00:29:03,344 SO WHY NOT STOP RIGHT NOW? 1050 00:29:03,413 --> 00:29:04,278 CONTINUING DOWN THIS PATH ONLY 1051 00:29:04,347 --> 00:29:05,146 CREATES MORE EXTREMISTS, WHICH 1052 00:29:05,215 --> 00:29:07,482 IS THE LAST THING THAT ANYONE 1053 00:29:07,551 --> 00:29:07,915 NEEDS. 1054 00:29:07,984 --> 00:29:08,683 AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING 1055 00:29:08,752 --> 00:29:10,151 THAT DENIES THE PAIN OF THOSE IN 1056 00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:13,020 ISRAEL, WHO'VE LOST LOVED ONES 1057 00:29:13,089 --> 00:29:13,688 TO A TRULY BARBAROUS ACT, OR WHO 1058 00:29:13,757 --> 00:29:14,522 ARE WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR THE 1059 00:29:14,591 --> 00:29:18,025 RETURN OF HOSTAGES. 1060 00:29:18,094 --> 00:29:20,461 ALTHOUGH, YOU SHOULD KNOW, SOME 1061 00:29:20,530 --> 00:29:21,028 HOSTAGES' FAMILIES ARE ALSO 1062 00:29:21,097 --> 00:29:22,997 UTTERLY FURIOUS AT THE MILITARY 1063 00:29:23,066 --> 00:29:23,598 TACTICS NETANYAHU'S EMPLOYING 1064 00:29:23,667 --> 00:29:24,365 RIGHT NOW. 1065 00:29:24,434 --> 00:29:24,866 >> WE HAVE TO ENGAGE IN 1066 00:29:24,935 --> 00:29:27,835 NEGOTIATIONS. 1067 00:29:27,904 --> 00:29:28,503 WE HAVE TO DO IT NOW. 1068 00:29:28,572 --> 00:29:30,338 THEY SAY THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO 1069 00:29:30,407 --> 00:29:30,905 DESTROY -- TO FLATTEN GAZA. 1070 00:29:30,974 --> 00:29:31,405 THEY NEVER MENTIONS THE 1071 00:29:31,474 --> 00:29:35,309 HOSTAGES, NEVER. 1072 00:29:35,378 --> 00:29:35,676 >> John: RIGHT. 1073 00:29:35,745 --> 00:29:36,611 AND YOU CAN SEE HOW INFURIATING 1074 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,446 THAT WOULD BE. 1075 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:39,313 AND I KNOW THAT FOR MANY 1076 00:29:39,382 --> 00:29:40,248 ISRAELIS, THERE IS AN 1077 00:29:40,317 --> 00:29:42,950 UNDERSTANDABLE SENSE OF FEAR AND 1078 00:29:43,019 --> 00:29:43,551 PRECARITY RIGHT NOW, AMID THE 1079 00:29:43,620 --> 00:29:44,552 SPECTER OF HAMAS ATTACKS AND 1080 00:29:44,621 --> 00:29:46,821 ROCKETS OVERHEAD. 1081 00:29:46,890 --> 00:29:47,255 BUT IT'S WORTH ALSO 1082 00:29:47,324 --> 00:29:50,057 ACKNOWLEDGING THE OVERWHELMING 1083 00:29:50,126 --> 00:29:50,892 SENSE OF PRECARITY AMONG 1084 00:29:50,961 --> 00:29:53,961 PALESTINIANS, LIVING UNDER A 1085 00:29:54,030 --> 00:29:54,495 BLOCKADE, AND A BARRAGE OF 1086 00:29:54,564 --> 00:29:55,396 ISRAELI ROCKETS. 1087 00:29:55,465 --> 00:29:56,631 AND IT HAS TO BE POSSIBLE TO 1088 00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:58,032 FEEL THE PAIN IN ONE COMMUNITY 1089 00:29:58,101 --> 00:29:58,633 WITHOUT DENYING IT IN ANOTHER. 1090 00:29:58,702 --> 00:30:02,537 IT HAS TO BE. 1091 00:30:02,606 --> 00:30:03,104 THAT IS, PERHAPS, THE MOST 1092 00:30:03,173 --> 00:30:05,339 NECESSARY PRECONDITION FOR 1093 00:30:05,408 --> 00:30:06,908 PEACE. 1094 00:30:06,977 --> 00:30:08,309 BECAUSE REAL PEACE HERE WILL 1095 00:30:08,378 --> 00:30:10,077 CLEARLY BE DIFFICULT. 1096 00:30:10,146 --> 00:30:12,246 IT'S GOING TO BE STRUGGLED 1097 00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:12,814 TOWARD, AS PART OF A LARGER 1098 00:30:12,883 --> 00:30:14,115 PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, WHICH WILL 1099 00:30:14,184 --> 00:30:15,183 IN TURN REQUIRE AN HONEST AND 1100 00:30:15,252 --> 00:30:17,418 UNCOMFORTABLE RECKONING WITH ALL 1101 00:30:17,487 --> 00:30:18,252 THE DECISIONS THAT BROUGHT US TO 1102 00:30:18,321 --> 00:30:21,155 THIS POINT. 1103 00:30:21,224 --> 00:30:22,156 AND I KNOW HOPE IS SCARCE RIGHT 1104 00:30:22,225 --> 00:30:23,057 NOW, BUT I DID SEE SOMETHING 1105 00:30:23,126 --> 00:30:24,525 THIS WEEK WHICH GAVE ME A SEED 1106 00:30:24,594 --> 00:30:26,093 OF HOPE. 1107 00:30:26,162 --> 00:30:29,263 IT INVOLVED THIS ISRAELI MAN, 1108 00:30:29,332 --> 00:30:30,465 RAMI ELHANAN, WHO LOST HIS 1109 00:30:30,534 --> 00:30:31,766 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER TO A HAMAS 1110 00:30:31,835 --> 00:30:33,601 SUICIDE BOMBING 26 YEARS AGO. 1111 00:30:33,670 --> 00:30:34,735 HE ACTUALLY CO-DIRECTS A GROUP 1112 00:30:34,804 --> 00:30:36,304 CALLED "THE PARENTS CIRCLE," 1113 00:30:36,373 --> 00:30:37,105 WITH THAT PALESTINIAN MAN. 1114 00:30:37,174 --> 00:30:44,174 ELHANAN WAS ASKED IF RECENT 1115 00:30:44,648 --> 00:30:46,214 EVENTS HAD CHANGED HIS WORLDVIEW 1116 00:30:46,283 --> 00:30:47,448 AT ALL, AND HIS RESPONSE IS 1117 00:30:47,517 --> 00:30:50,718 WORTH LISTENING TO. 1118 00:30:50,787 --> 00:30:51,552 >> YOU KNOW, WE ARE IN A CIRCLE 1119 00:30:51,621 --> 00:30:52,120 OF BLOOD FOR-FOR THE LAST 75 1120 00:30:52,189 --> 00:30:54,388 YEARS. 1121 00:30:54,457 --> 00:30:55,022 AND THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ROUND. 1122 00:30:55,091 --> 00:31:00,394 NOBODY EXPECTED THE VICIOUSNESS 1123 00:31:00,463 --> 00:31:01,829 AND THE CRUELTY OF THIS ROUND, 1124 00:31:01,898 --> 00:31:04,532 BUT IT WAS EXPECTED. 1125 00:31:04,601 --> 00:31:05,299 YOU CANNOT PUT TWO MILLION 1126 00:31:05,368 --> 00:31:06,367 PEOPLE IN A BOX, CLOSE THE COVER 1127 00:31:06,436 --> 00:31:08,503 AND, EXPECT NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. 1128 00:31:08,572 --> 00:31:09,137 IT WILL NOT STOP UNLESS WE TALK. 1129 00:31:09,206 --> 00:31:12,273 YOU CANNOT ANNIHILATE HAMAS. 1130 00:31:12,342 --> 00:31:18,846 YOU CANNOT IGNORE SIX MILLION 1131 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:19,413 PEOPLE, PALESTINIANS, LIVING 1132 00:31:19,482 --> 00:31:22,517 HERE IN THE HOLY LAND. 1133 00:31:22,586 --> 00:31:25,119 AND YOU CANNOT EXPECT THEM TO GO 1134 00:31:25,188 --> 00:31:27,755 AWAY. 1135 00:31:27,824 --> 00:31:28,222 THEY WILL NOT GO AWAY. 1136 00:31:28,291 --> 00:31:28,656 WE WILL NOT GO AWAY. 1137 00:31:28,725 --> 00:31:29,190 WE ARE DOOMED TO LIVE HERE 1138 00:31:29,259 --> 00:31:30,391 TOGETHER, AND WE HAVE TO CHOOSE 1139 00:31:30,460 --> 00:31:32,026 WHETHER TO SHARE THIS LAND OR TO 1140 00:31:32,095 --> 00:31:33,761 SHARE THE GRAVEYARD UNDER IT. 1141 00:31:33,830 --> 00:31:36,430 >> John: EXACTLY. 1142 00:31:36,499 --> 00:31:37,331 AND IT IS INSPIRING THAT -- 1143 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,633 DESPITE WHAT THAT MAN WENT 1144 00:31:38,702 --> 00:31:40,234 THROUGH -- HE'S STILL COMMITTED 1145 00:31:40,303 --> 00:31:42,603 TO ACHIEVING PEACE THROUGH 1146 00:31:42,672 --> 00:31:42,937 TALKING. 1147 00:31:43,006 --> 00:31:43,404 AND IT SHOWS THAT ANY 1148 00:31:43,473 --> 00:31:44,839 CONVERSATION AROUND THIS HAS TO 1149 00:31:44,908 --> 00:31:45,473 BEGIN WITH EMPATHY OR WE'RE JUST 1150 00:31:45,542 --> 00:31:47,642 FUCKED. 1151 00:31:47,711 --> 00:31:48,743 AND OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T KNOW HOW 1152 00:31:48,812 --> 00:31:50,778 ALL THIS ENDS. 1153 00:31:50,847 --> 00:31:51,879 BUT THERE ARE A FEW THINGS WE DO 1154 00:31:51,948 --> 00:31:52,079 KNOW. 1155 00:31:52,148 --> 00:31:54,549 WE KNOW THAT DEHUMANIZING PEOPLE 1156 00:31:54,618 --> 00:31:56,050 LEADS TO VIOLENCE. 1157 00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:56,651 WE KNOW THAT VIOLENCE LEADS TO 1158 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,653 EVEN MORE BRUTALITY AND 1159 00:31:58,722 --> 00:31:59,253 DESTRUCTION. 1160 00:31:59,322 --> 00:32:00,254 AND WE KNOW THAT, CRUCIALLY, 1161 00:32:00,323 --> 00:32:01,689 BREAKING THAT CYCLE IS 1162 00:32:01,758 --> 00:32:02,290 UNFORTUNATELY GOING TO REQUIRE 1163 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:03,257 LEADERSHIP SIGNIFICANTLY 1164 00:32:03,326 --> 00:32:04,725 DIFFERENT THAN THE ONES 1165 00:32:04,794 --> 00:32:05,993 CURRENTLY IN PLACE. 1166 00:32:06,062 --> 00:32:08,696 AND NOW, THIS. 1167 00:32:08,765 --> 00:32:11,666 >> Announcer: AND NOW, RACHEL 1168 00:32:11,735 --> 00:32:13,000 CAMPOS DUFFY REALLY, REALLY 1169 00:32:13,069 --> 00:32:16,971 NEEDS YOU TO KNOW THAT HER 1170 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:22,577 HUSBAND WAS ONCE IN CONGRESS. 1171 00:32:22,646 --> 00:32:24,178 >> I BROUGHT THIS UP TO YOU GUYS 1172 00:32:24,247 --> 00:32:24,779 IN CONGRESS. 1173 00:32:24,848 --> 00:32:25,379 MY HUSBAND GOT TO DO THAT WHEN 1174 00:32:25,448 --> 00:32:27,148 HE WAS IN CONGRESS. 1175 00:32:27,217 --> 00:32:28,685 YOU NKOW, MY HUSBAND'S A FORMER 1176 00:32:29,452 --> 00:32:30,017 MEMBER OF CONGRESS, AS YOU KNOW. 1177 00:32:30,086 --> 00:32:30,651 MY HUSBAND HIRED PEOPLE ALL THE 1178 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,252 TIME WHEN HE WAS A MEMBER OF 1179 00:32:31,321 --> 00:32:34,956 CONGRESS. 1180 00:32:35,025 --> 00:32:36,224 YOUR BROTHER WAS IN CONGRESS. 1181 00:32:36,293 --> 00:32:37,792 MY HUSBAND WAS IN CONGRESS. 1182 00:32:37,861 --> 00:32:39,393 IT'S SO INTERESTING, BECAUSE YOU 1183 00:32:39,462 --> 00:32:40,228 TALK TO PEOPLE LIKE MY HUSBAND, 1184 00:32:40,297 --> 00:32:41,996 WHO WAS IN CONGRESS. 1185 00:32:42,065 --> 00:32:45,633 WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS IN CONGRESS. 1186 00:32:45,702 --> 00:32:46,200 EVERY DAY WHEN MY HUSBAND IN 1187 00:32:46,269 --> 00:32:46,667 CONGRESS. 1188 00:32:46,736 --> 00:32:47,535 MY HUSBAND WHEN HE WAS IN 1189 00:32:47,604 --> 00:32:47,969 CONGRESS. 1190 00:32:48,038 --> 00:32:48,536 MY HUSBAND WAS IN CONGRESS. 1191 00:32:48,605 --> 00:32:51,839 MY HUSBAND WAS IN CONGRESS. 1192 00:32:51,908 --> 00:32:54,642 MY HUSBAND WAS A MEMBER OF 1193 00:32:54,711 --> 00:32:55,710 CONGRESS. 1194 00:32:55,779 --> 00:32:56,244 MY HUSBAND WAS ELECTED TO 1195 00:32:56,313 --> 00:33:03,313 CONGRESS. 1196 00:33:05,755 --> 00:33:08,422 LET ME GET TO ANOTHER TOPIC 1197 00:33:08,491 --> 00:33:09,223 THAT'S INTERESTING, AS YOU KNOW 1198 00:33:09,292 --> 00:33:09,757 MY HUSBAND WAS A MEMBER OF 1199 00:33:09,826 --> 00:33:10,024 CONGRESS. 1200 00:33:10,093 --> 00:33:10,458 >> John: MOVING ON. 1201 00:33:10,527 --> 00:33:11,092 FINALLY TONIGHT, A QUICK UPDATE 1202 00:33:11,161 --> 00:33:11,492 ABOUT NEW ZEALAND. 1203 00:33:11,561 --> 00:33:12,260 YOU MAY REMEMBER LAST WEEK, WE 1204 00:33:12,329 --> 00:33:12,760 WADED INTO THEIR HIGHLY 1205 00:33:12,829 --> 00:33:13,261 COMPETITIVE "BIRD OF THE 1206 00:33:13,330 --> 00:33:13,828 CENTURY" CONTEST, RUN BY THE 1207 00:33:13,897 --> 00:33:14,729 CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION 1208 00:33:14,798 --> 00:33:17,865 FOREST & BIRD. 1209 00:33:17,934 --> 00:33:18,733 BASICALLY, EVERY YEAR 1210 00:33:18,802 --> 00:33:19,867 NEW ZEALANDERS VOTE FOR THEIR 1211 00:33:19,936 --> 00:33:20,668 FAVORITE BIRD AND ULTIMATELY 1212 00:33:20,737 --> 00:33:22,603 ELECT A NEW BIRD KING. 1213 00:33:22,672 --> 00:33:24,105 IT'S JUST EXCELLENT. 1214 00:33:24,174 --> 00:33:25,173 AND WE ANNOUNCED OURSELVES AS 1215 00:33:25,242 --> 00:33:29,343 THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN MANAGERS 1216 00:33:29,412 --> 00:33:30,111 OF THIS BIRD, THE PUTEKETEKE. 1217 00:33:30,180 --> 00:33:33,014 AND I'LL NEVER TIRE OF SAYING 1218 00:33:33,083 --> 00:33:33,314 IT OUT LOUD. 1219 00:33:33,383 --> 00:33:33,614 PUTEKETEKE. 1220 00:33:33,683 --> 00:33:34,248 IT'S THE BIRD NAME EQUIVALENT OF 1221 00:33:34,317 --> 00:33:34,882 RUBBING YOUR GUMS WITH COCAINE, 1222 00:33:34,951 --> 00:33:35,883 OR FILLING YOUR MOUTH WITH POP 1223 00:33:35,952 --> 00:33:37,552 ROCKS AND CHUGGING A COKE. 1224 00:33:37,621 --> 00:33:41,022 AND LOOK AT THE PLUMAGE! 1225 00:33:41,091 --> 00:33:41,923 IT HAS THE GRACE OF A SWAN AND 1226 00:33:41,992 --> 00:33:46,060 THE HAIR OF AN EMO GUY FIERI. 1227 00:33:46,129 --> 00:33:46,661 TO CAMPAIGN FOR IT, WE PUT UP 1228 00:33:46,730 --> 00:33:47,795 ADS IN NEW ZEALAND, PARIS, 1229 00:33:47,864 --> 00:33:49,363 MUMBAI, TOKYO, AND LONDON. 1230 00:33:49,432 --> 00:33:53,468 WE FLEW A BANNER OVER IPANEMA 1231 00:33:53,537 --> 00:33:55,736 BEACH IN BRAZIL, AND, NATURALLY, 1232 00:33:55,805 --> 00:33:56,604 PUT UP A BILLBOARD IN MANITOWOC, 1233 00:33:56,673 --> 00:33:58,673 WISCONSIN. 1234 00:33:58,742 --> 00:34:00,108 AND IT SEEMS, OUR PROMOTION 1235 00:34:00,177 --> 00:34:00,741 WORKED, BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A 1236 00:34:00,810 --> 00:34:01,676 HUGE INFLUX OF VOTES THIS WEEK 1237 00:34:01,745 --> 00:34:04,479 THAT, ACCORDING TO 1238 00:34:04,548 --> 00:34:05,046 FOREST & BIRD, THEIR VOTING 1239 00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:06,647 VERIFICATION SYSTEM GOT 1240 00:34:06,716 --> 00:34:07,515 OVERLOADED AND TEMPORARILY 1241 00:34:07,584 --> 00:34:09,550 CRASHED. 1242 00:34:09,619 --> 00:34:11,185 THEY'RE ACTUALLY HAVING TO DELAY 1243 00:34:11,254 --> 00:34:11,786 THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNER 1244 00:34:11,855 --> 00:34:12,153 UNTIL WEDNESDAY. 1245 00:34:12,222 --> 00:34:15,790 SO WHILE WE DON'T YET KNOW WHO 1246 00:34:15,859 --> 00:34:16,424 WON, I DO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT 1247 00:34:16,493 --> 00:34:17,625 TO ADDRESS THE RESPONSE TO OUR 1248 00:34:17,694 --> 00:34:20,027 CAMPAIGN IN NEW ZEALAND. 1249 00:34:20,096 --> 00:34:21,796 BECAUSE IT WASN'T ALL POSITIVE. 1250 00:34:21,865 --> 00:34:22,497 >> JOHN OLIVER, THE LATE NIGHT 1251 00:34:22,566 --> 00:34:25,533 HOST, AND FORMER BIRD HIMSELF -- 1252 00:34:25,602 --> 00:34:26,134 >> COME ON! 1253 00:34:26,203 --> 00:34:28,970 IT'S THE NEWS! 1254 00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:29,470 >> HAS MADE HIS PICK FOR 1255 00:34:29,539 --> 00:34:30,905 FOREST & BIRD'S BIRD OF THE 1256 00:34:30,974 --> 00:34:31,539 CENTURY COMPETITION KNOWN TO THE 1257 00:34:31,608 --> 00:34:34,609 WORLD. 1258 00:34:34,678 --> 00:34:35,409 ALL OF JOHN OLIVER'S WORK, 1259 00:34:35,478 --> 00:34:39,847 INCLUDING THIS LORD OF THE WINGS 1260 00:34:39,916 --> 00:34:40,448 POSTER IN WELLINGTON, MAY NOT 1261 00:34:40,517 --> 00:34:41,716 CONVINCE KIWIS. 1262 00:34:41,785 --> 00:34:42,283 >> YOU WOULDN'T VOTE FOR IT, 1263 00:34:42,352 --> 00:34:43,451 STILL? 1264 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,252 >> NOT ON THE BASIS OF THAT 1265 00:34:44,321 --> 00:34:45,153 PHOTO. 1266 00:34:45,222 --> 00:34:46,420 >> AND HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE. 1267 00:34:46,489 --> 00:34:47,855 KIWI CAMPAIGNER ERIN RILEY 1268 00:34:47,924 --> 00:34:50,258 CALLING IT FOUL PLAY. 1269 00:34:50,327 --> 00:34:51,058 >> B-GRADE AMERICAN CELEBRITY 1270 00:34:51,127 --> 00:34:52,026 COMING OUT AND ESSENTIALLY 1271 00:34:52,095 --> 00:34:57,098 HIJACKING BIRD OF THE CENTURY. 1272 00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:58,065 I DON'T EVEN THINK HE LIKES 1273 00:34:58,134 --> 00:34:58,466 BIRDS. 1274 00:34:58,535 --> 00:35:01,536 >> John: HEY, HEY, HEY! 1275 00:35:01,605 --> 00:35:02,537 OKAY, NOW I'M INSULTED. 1276 00:35:02,606 --> 00:35:03,805 NOT BECAUSE OF THE B-GRADE 1277 00:35:03,874 --> 00:35:04,906 AMERICAN CELEBRITY PART, THAT'S 1278 00:35:04,975 --> 00:35:05,640 HONESTLY GENEROUS. 1279 00:35:05,709 --> 00:35:06,474 BUT HOW DARE YOU SAY I DON'T 1280 00:35:06,543 --> 00:35:07,909 LIKE BIRDS! 1281 00:35:07,978 --> 00:35:09,143 I LOVE THEM! 1282 00:35:09,212 --> 00:35:11,045 I JUST DON'T LIKE YOUR BIRD. 1283 00:35:11,114 --> 00:35:12,613 BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE 1284 00:35:12,682 --> 00:35:14,482 DONKEY KONG'S HAIRY TESTICLE. 1285 00:35:14,551 --> 00:35:15,082 IT LOOKS LIKE A RAT CARRYING A 1286 00:35:15,151 --> 00:35:16,250 TOOTHPICK. 1287 00:35:16,319 --> 00:35:18,619 BUT SHE WASN'T THE ONLY 1288 00:35:18,688 --> 00:35:19,220 NEW ZEALANDER WHO GOT A LITTLE 1289 00:35:19,289 --> 00:35:20,888 TESTY WITH US. 1290 00:35:20,957 --> 00:35:22,290 THERE WAS ALSO THIS WOMAN. 1291 00:35:22,359 --> 00:35:22,924 >> YOU WANT TO TAKE THE PISS OUT 1292 00:35:22,993 --> 00:35:25,460 OF OUR VERY IMPORTANT ELECTION, 1293 00:35:25,529 --> 00:35:27,829 THEN I SEND 14 EMAILS TO 1294 00:35:27,898 --> 00:35:32,266 EVERYONE ON YOUR TEAM TO TRY AND 1295 00:35:32,335 --> 00:35:32,800 GET YOU TO COME AND DEFEND 1296 00:35:32,869 --> 00:35:33,434 YOURSELF ON ANOTHER BIRD DEBATE 1297 00:35:33,503 --> 00:35:34,302 AND YOU SAID "NO." 1298 00:35:34,371 --> 00:35:35,670 UM, WOW. 1299 00:35:35,739 --> 00:35:36,804 >> THAT'S A STOOL FOR YOU, 1300 00:35:36,873 --> 00:35:37,605 JOHN OLIVER, IF YOU WANT TO PUT 1301 00:35:37,674 --> 00:35:38,206 YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS 1302 00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:40,274 ABOUT YOUR BIRD. 1303 00:35:40,343 --> 00:35:42,009 EMPTY CHAIR. 1304 00:35:42,078 --> 00:35:42,743 >> DO YOU HAVE A BIRD? 1305 00:35:42,812 --> 00:35:43,111 >> YEAH, KERERU. 1306 00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:45,379 IT'S THE BEST BIRD. 1307 00:35:45,448 --> 00:35:47,281 >> John: OKAY, OKAY, LET ME 1308 00:35:47,350 --> 00:35:47,849 ADDRESS THAT. 1309 00:35:47,918 --> 00:35:48,449 OF COURSE I SAID "NO" TO THAT 1310 00:35:48,518 --> 00:35:48,683 DEBATE. 1311 00:35:48,752 --> 00:35:49,283 I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO ARGUE 1312 00:35:49,352 --> 00:35:50,184 WITH SOMEONE THAT WRONG. 1313 00:35:50,253 --> 00:35:53,721 THIS IS THE BEST BIRD? 1314 00:35:53,790 --> 00:35:54,355 PLEASE, IT'S A FUCKING PIGEON IN 1315 00:35:54,424 --> 00:35:58,793 A TANK TOP. 1316 00:35:58,862 --> 00:36:05,166 DEBATE OVER. 1317 00:36:05,235 --> 00:36:05,766 I'M NOT GETTING ON A PLANE TO 1318 00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:06,234 DESTROY YOU LIKE THAT. 1319 00:36:06,303 --> 00:36:06,868 AND LOOK, SOME BIRD CAMPAIGNERS 1320 00:36:06,937 --> 00:36:08,069 DID ACCEPT OUR INTERFERENCE WITH 1321 00:36:08,138 --> 00:36:08,669 GRACE, LIKE SUPPORTERS OF THE 1322 00:36:08,738 --> 00:36:09,237 TITIPOUNAMU, WHO POSTED THIS 1323 00:36:09,306 --> 00:36:10,938 IMAGE SAYING "THAT'S ME IN THE 1324 00:36:11,007 --> 00:36:12,240 CORNER, THAT'S ME IN THE 1325 00:36:12,309 --> 00:36:13,441 SPOTLIGHT, LOSING A BIRD 1326 00:36:13,510 --> 00:36:15,910 COMPETITION." 1327 00:36:15,979 --> 00:36:17,345 BUT OTHERS CAME OUT SWINGING. 1328 00:36:17,414 --> 00:36:18,980 SUPPORTERS OF THE KAKARIKI 1329 00:36:19,049 --> 00:36:21,382 KARAKA DESIGNED THIS RETALIATORY 1330 00:36:21,451 --> 00:36:22,984 BILLBOARD, SAYING "DEAR JOHN, 1331 00:36:23,053 --> 00:36:24,786 DON'T DISRUPT THE PECKING ORDER" 1332 00:36:24,855 --> 00:36:25,620 AND PUT THEM UP ALL OVER THE 1333 00:36:25,689 --> 00:36:31,626 PLACE. 1334 00:36:31,695 --> 00:36:34,395 AND I REALLY RESPECT THAT KIND 1335 00:36:34,464 --> 00:36:34,729 OF AGGRESSION. 1336 00:36:34,798 --> 00:36:35,329 BUT THE KAKARIKI KARAKA HAS NO 1337 00:36:35,398 --> 00:36:35,897 BUSINESS BEING IN THIS 1338 00:36:35,966 --> 00:36:36,197 COMPETITION. 1339 00:36:36,266 --> 00:36:36,731 "BIRD OF THE CENTURY" IS A 1340 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:37,298 CONTEST FOR REAL BIRDS, NOT 1341 00:36:37,367 --> 00:36:41,869 BRIGHT-GREEN CAT TOYS. 1342 00:36:41,938 --> 00:36:42,370 EVEN THIS PROFESSIONAL 1343 00:36:42,439 --> 00:36:43,204 BASKETBALL TEAM GOT INVOLVED, 1344 00:36:43,273 --> 00:36:44,539 POSTING THIS VIDEO OF A 1345 00:36:44,608 --> 00:36:45,173 BILLBOARD THEY PUT UP ALONGSIDE 1346 00:36:45,242 --> 00:36:46,340 THEIR MASCOT AND BIRD OF THE 1347 00:36:46,409 --> 00:36:48,276 YEAR PICK, THE KEA. 1348 00:36:48,345 --> 00:36:50,878 AND IF YOU MISSED IT, THAT 1349 00:36:50,947 --> 00:36:52,613 BILLBOARD SAYS, "THE ONLY BIRD 1350 00:36:52,682 --> 00:36:53,614 WORSE THAN THE PUTEKETEKE IS 1351 00:36:53,683 --> 00:36:55,716 ZAZU." 1352 00:36:55,785 --> 00:36:57,485 AND I'LL ADMIT, I'LL ADMIT, 1353 00:36:57,554 --> 00:37:03,024 THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. 1354 00:37:03,093 --> 00:37:04,859 BUT HERE'S THE THING, THE JOKES 1355 00:37:04,928 --> 00:37:06,160 ON YOU,YOU PHOTOSHOPPED MY FACE 1356 00:37:06,229 --> 00:37:06,561 ONTO CARTOON ZAZU. 1357 00:37:06,630 --> 00:37:06,961 I'M NOT THAT ONE. 1358 00:37:07,030 --> 00:37:07,428 I'M NOT THE FUN ONE. 1359 00:37:07,497 --> 00:37:07,995 I'M THE TERRIFYING ONE, THAT 1360 00:37:08,064 --> 00:37:08,629 PUTS PRIDE ROCK SMACK DAB IN THE 1361 00:37:08,698 --> 00:37:11,899 MIDDLE OF THE UNCANNY VALLEY. 1362 00:37:11,968 --> 00:37:12,533 THEN THERE WAS THE CAMPAIGN FOR 1363 00:37:12,602 --> 00:37:13,100 THE SOUTHERN DOTTEREL WHICH 1364 00:37:13,169 --> 00:37:14,402 POSTED THIS PHOTO OF IT WALKING 1365 00:37:14,471 --> 00:37:14,869 IN ON ME IN BED WITH A 1366 00:37:14,938 --> 00:37:18,306 PUTEKETEKE. 1367 00:37:18,375 --> 00:37:20,141 AGAIN, VERY GOOD. 1368 00:37:20,210 --> 00:37:21,175 AND I LOVE ALL THE TINY DETAILS, 1369 00:37:21,244 --> 00:37:24,378 FROM THE POST-BIRD-SEX CIGARETTE 1370 00:37:24,447 --> 00:37:25,279 THAT I'M HOLDING IN MY HAND. 1371 00:37:25,348 --> 00:37:26,147 TO THE CHOICE OF THE DOTTEREL 1372 00:37:26,216 --> 00:37:27,548 PHOTO. 1373 00:37:27,617 --> 00:37:28,082 BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY THE 1374 00:37:28,151 --> 00:37:29,417 EXPRESSION A DOTTEREL WOULD MAKE 1375 00:37:29,486 --> 00:37:30,017 IF IT WALKED IN ON ITS SPOUSE 1376 00:37:30,086 --> 00:37:34,922 CHEATING ON IT. 1377 00:37:34,991 --> 00:37:35,890 BUT AMID ALL THE BLOWBACK, THERE 1378 00:37:35,959 --> 00:37:36,524 WAS ONE ACCUSATION I CANNOT LET 1379 00:37:36,593 --> 00:37:36,724 PASS. 1380 00:37:36,793 --> 00:37:37,391 AND IT COMES FROM THAT 1381 00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:38,860 CAMPAIGNER FOR THE KIWI YOU SAW 1382 00:37:38,929 --> 00:37:40,795 EARLIER, WHO TOLD A NEWS OUTLET, 1383 00:37:40,864 --> 00:37:42,130 HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE 1384 00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:42,997 NEW ZEALAND, TO BE HONEST. 1385 00:37:43,066 --> 00:37:45,066 ANYTIME WE FEATURE ON HIS SHOW 1386 00:37:45,135 --> 00:37:46,601 IT'S SO HE CAN LAUGH AT US. 1387 00:37:46,670 --> 00:37:47,235 WE'RE THE BUTT OF HIS JOKES AND 1388 00:37:47,304 --> 00:37:48,636 HE'S DOING IT AGAIN. 1389 00:37:48,705 --> 00:37:50,104 AND LOOK, I AM DOING IT AGAIN. 1390 00:37:50,173 --> 00:37:52,073 YEAH, I AM. 1391 00:37:52,142 --> 00:37:52,640 BUT IT'S NOT BECAUSE I DON'T 1392 00:37:52,709 --> 00:37:55,376 LIKE YOU. 1393 00:37:55,445 --> 00:37:56,010 IT'S BECAUSE I FUCKING LOVE YOU. 1394 00:37:56,079 --> 00:38:01,115 NEW ZEALAND, YOU ARE SO GOOD AT 1395 00:38:01,184 --> 00:38:01,649 NOT JUST TALKING SHIT, BUT 1396 00:38:01,718 --> 00:38:02,416 TAKING IT, WITH REMARKABLE GOOD 1397 00:38:02,485 --> 00:38:03,985 HUMOR. 1398 00:38:04,054 --> 00:38:04,619 I TALK ABOUT YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE 1399 00:38:04,688 --> 00:38:06,120 YOU'RE THE MOST FASCINATING 1400 00:38:06,189 --> 00:38:06,521 COUNTRY ON EARTH. 1401 00:38:06,590 --> 00:38:08,790 YOU HOLD BIRD CONTESTS, YOU 1402 00:38:08,859 --> 00:38:10,024 SOMETIMES THROW DILDOS AT YOUR 1403 00:38:10,093 --> 00:38:13,561 POLITICIANS, YOU LET YOUR PEOPLE 1404 00:38:13,630 --> 00:38:15,096 SUBMIT IMAGES LIKE THIS FOR YOUR 1405 00:38:15,165 --> 00:38:16,464 NATIONAL FLAG -- YOU'RE AN 1406 00:38:16,533 --> 00:38:18,132 ENDLESS WELL OF JOY. 1407 00:38:18,201 --> 00:38:19,534 HONESTLY, I'D TALK ABOUT YOU 1408 00:38:19,603 --> 00:38:20,902 EVERY WEEK IF IT WEREN'T FOR ALL 1409 00:38:20,971 --> 00:38:22,136 THE OTHER CRAZY SHIT GOING ON IN 1410 00:38:22,205 --> 00:38:22,937 THE WORLD. 1411 00:38:23,006 --> 00:38:24,839 I WOULD RENAME THIS SHOW 1412 00:38:24,908 --> 00:38:25,740 "NEW ZEALAND TONIGHT WITH 1413 00:38:25,809 --> 00:38:27,041 JOHN OLIVER" AND IT WOULD BE AN 1414 00:38:27,110 --> 00:38:29,577 IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT. 1415 00:38:29,646 --> 00:38:31,078 AND FOR THE RECORD, ALL OF YOUR 1416 00:38:31,147 --> 00:38:32,814 BIRDS ARE GREAT, AND IT WOULD BE 1417 00:38:32,883 --> 00:38:34,982 AN HONOR TO LOSE TO ANY OF THEM 1418 00:38:35,051 --> 00:38:36,184 WHEN RESULTS ARE ANNOUNCED ON 1419 00:38:36,253 --> 00:38:38,286 WEDNESDAY. 1420 00:38:38,355 --> 00:38:39,787 AND THE REASON IT'S SO EASY FOR 1421 00:38:39,856 --> 00:38:41,456 ME TO SAY THAT IS, WE'RE NOT 1422 00:38:41,525 --> 00:38:42,356 GOING TO LOSE, ARE WE? 1423 00:38:42,425 --> 00:38:43,825 WE'RE GOING TO WIN. 1424 00:38:43,894 --> 00:38:45,393 AND WE'RE GOING TO WIN BY A LOT. 1425 00:38:45,462 --> 00:38:47,795 AND WHEN WE DO THAT, THE 1426 00:38:47,864 --> 00:38:48,563 PUTEKETEKE WILL BE YOUR BIRD OF 1427 00:38:48,632 --> 00:38:49,697 THE CENTURY, AND THERE'S NOTHING 1428 00:38:49,766 --> 00:38:51,666 ANY OF YOU CAN DO TO STOP THAT 1429 00:38:51,735 --> 00:38:55,136 RIGHT NOW. 1430 00:38:55,205 --> 00:38:55,837 MAYBE GOOD LUCK NEXT CENTURY, 1431 00:38:55,906 --> 00:38:56,137 NEW ZEALAND. 1432 00:38:56,206 --> 00:38:57,605 THAT'S OUR SHOW, THANK YOU SO 1433 00:38:57,674 --> 00:38:59,407 MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1434 00:38:59,476 --> 00:39:00,675 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. 1435 00:39:00,744 --> 00:39:00,942 GOODNIGHT! 1436 00:39:01,011 --> 00:39:01,709 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1437 00:39:01,778 --> 00:39:02,611 ♪ ♪