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As only Bill Maher can explain... · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  And finally neural. I know it's supposed to be that magical time of year,
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  but maybe what we all really need right now is a good dose of
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  realism. I see a lot of Nativity scenes when I'm out, as you
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  always do before Christmas, and I can't help thinking about where that manger really
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  is. It's in the West Bank, on Palestinian lands controlled by the Palestinian
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  Authority. In nineteen fifty, the little town of Bethlehem was eighty six percent
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  Christian. Now it's overwhelmingly Muslim. And that's my point. Tonight things change
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  to two point three billion Christians. There can be no more sacred site than
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  where their Savior was born. But they don't have it anymore, and yet
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  no Crusader army has geared up to take it back. Things change countries,
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  boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for four hundred years,
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  but today an Ottoman is something you put under your feet. The city of
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  Byzantium became the city of Constantinople became Istanbul. Not everybody liked it, but
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  you can't keep arguing the call forever. The Irish had the entire island to
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  themselves, but the British were starting an empire, and well, the Irish
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  lost their tip. They they blew each other up over it for thirty years,
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  but eventually everybody comes to an accommodation except the Palestinians. Was it unjust
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  that even a single Arab family was forced to move upon the founding of the
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  Jewish state. Yes, but it's also not rare, happening all through history
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  all over the world, and mostly what people do is make the best of
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  it. After World War Two, twelve million ethnic Germans got shoved out of
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  Russia and Poland and Czechoslovakia because being German had become kind of unpopular. A
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  million Greeks were shoved out of Turkey in nineteen twenty three, a million Ghanians
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  out of Nigerian nineteen eighty three, almost a million French out of Algeria nineteen
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  sixty two. Nearly a million Syrian refugees moved to Germany eight years ago.
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  Was that a perfect fit? And no one knows more about being pushed off
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  land than the Jews, including being almost wholly kicked out of every Arab country
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  they once lived in. Yes, TikTok Fans. Ethnic ethnic cleansing happened both
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  ways in feder on the roof, the family is always moving to stay one
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  step ahead of the Cossacks. But they deal with it. When they're leaving
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  Anateevka, they say, hey, it wasn't so great anyway. I'm mind
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  like other countries don't have roofs you could fiddle on. Now. Now that's
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  not how they really felt, but they were coping. They coped because sometimes
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  that's all you can do. History is brutal and humans are not good people.
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  History is sad and full of wrongs, but you can't make them unhappen
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  because a paraglider isn't a time machine. People get moved and yes, colonized.
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  Nobody was a bigger colonizer than the Muslim army that swept out of the
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  Arabian desert and took over much of the world in a single century. And
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  they didn't do it by asking. Is a reason Saudi Arabia's flag is a
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  sword. Kosovo was the cradle of Christian Serbia, then it became Muslim.
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  They fought a war about it in the nineties but stopped. They didn't keep
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  it going for seventy five years. There were deals on the table to share
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  the land called Palestine in nineteen forty seven, ninety three, ninety five,
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  ninety eight, two thousand, two thousand and eight, and East Jerusalem could
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  have been the capital of a Palestinian state that today might look more like Dubai
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  than Gaza. Arafat was offered ninety five percent of the West Bank and said
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  no, the Palestinian people should know your leaders, and the useful idiots on
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  college campuses who are their allies are not doing you any favors by keeping alive
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  the River to the sea myth. I mean, where do you think Israel
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  is going spoiler alert nowhere. It's one of the most powerful countries in the
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  world, with the five hundred billion dollar economy, the world's second largest tech
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  sector after Silicon Valley, and nuclear weapons. They're here. They like their
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  bagel with a shmeir. Get used to it. What's happening to Palestinians today
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  is horrible, and not just in Gaza, in the West Bank too.
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  But wars end with negotiation, and what the media gloss is over is it's
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  hard to negotiate when the other side's bargaining position is you all die and disappear.
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  I mean the chant from the River to the sea. Yeah, let's
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  look at the map. Here's the river, here's the sea. Oh,
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  I see. It means you get all of it, not just the West
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  Bank, which was basically the original UN partition deal. You rejected because you
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  wanted all of it and always have, even though it's indisputably also the Jews
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  ancestral homeland. And so you attacked and lost, and attacked again, and
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  lost and attacked again and lost. As my friend doctor Phil says, how's
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  that working for you? Look at what Mexico used to own, all the
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  way up to the top of California. But no Mexican is out there chanting
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  from the Rio Grande to Portland, Oregon because they chose a different path.
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  They got real and built a country that's the world's fourteenth biggest economy now because
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  they knew the United States wasn't going to give back Phoenix anymore than Hamas will
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  ever be. In Tel Aviv, one of the leaders of Hamas says,
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  save yourselves time and imaginary dreams. In a few years, Allah willing,
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  you will have to discuss the situation in the region after Israel. I'm sorry,
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  who's the one with imaginary dreams? If I give you the benefit of
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  the doubt and say your plan for a completely Jewliss Palestine isn't that all the
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  Jews should die? What is the only other option? They move? You
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  move all the Jews. Okay, I gotta warn you, there's gonna be
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  some fetching. You move all the Jews. And we do this with what
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  a fleet of trucks called jew Hale. And to where are we moving this
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  entire country? Texas? Sure they have Rome, and I guess we could
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  put the whaling wall on the border and kill two birds with one stone.
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  Or can't just get serious