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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher: "People Die in Wars" [View all]cpwm17
(3,829 posts)and Israel is committing mass-murder against a captive population.
Maher consistently shows his hatred for Arabs and he will always support anything Israel does to Arabs.
On his show, he has acknowledged that the Zionists expelled the Palestinians to create Israel. He said he has no problem with that, as he considers an Arab life much less sacred than a Jewish life. So anything Israel does to Arabs is justified, by definition.
He has talked about how he supports Benny Morris' position about the necessity of expelling the Arabs to create Israel, reading from Benny Morris' book on his show. Here's Morris' position:
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/israel-stands-by-the-damned-of-1948-as-it-seeks-to-finish-the-nakba
His argument echoed that of the Israeli revisionist historian Benny Morris, another leading light of the Zionist left, whose early work exposed the mass expulsions of Palestinians in 1948 and before, but who declared in a shocking interview with Shavit during the height of the Second Intifada that Israel had not gone far enough.
The Jewish state would never be at peace, Morris suggested, until it purged the rest of the Arab demographic contaminants living within its realm.
I dont think that the expulsions of 1948 were war crimes. You cant make an omelette without breaking eggs. You have to dirty your hands, Morris told Shavit. Building on his zero-sum analysis, he continued: A society that aims to kill you forces you to destroy it. When the choice is between destroying or being destroyed, its better to destroy.