Bill Maher, well-known hater of Arabs and blind supporter of Israel and its well-documented war crimes against Lebanon last summer (more on that coming up), has the perfect opportunity to ask Jason Alexander, who used to play George on the sitcom Seinfeld, about his experiences in the Palestinian Territories. However, as soon as Alexander mentions that he was part of a grassroots peace initiative involving both Israelis and Palestinians, Maher clams up and says nothing more.
Maher is terrified that Alexander might say something positive about Palestinians or something negative about Israel. If Alexander had said that he was pelted by Palestinian stone-throwers and called a dirty Jew, Maher would have milked it for all it was worth, launching into one of his classic harangues about how Arabs and Muslims are backward, hateful, useless, and should be bombed to the Stone Age. However, since Alexander visited Ramallah and lived to tell the tale - in fact, enjoyed his experiences with Palestinians, as he has said on numerous occasions - Maher could not take the chance of letting him discuss it on air.
How did all of this start? Another pundit on Maher's show arrogantly posits that Seinfeld was not popular among Arabs, and Alexander quickly rebuts him, saying that his experience in the West Bank indicates otherwise.
Watch the clip from 1:27 to 2:10.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zykrh-jQCII
Maher is not interested in peace or in peace initiatives, but in Israel waging war on its neighbours and gobbling up more land. For a man who claims to be neither liberal nor conservative, but simply an independent and rational thinker not swayed by illiberal passions or wanton bloodlust, Maher sure does salivate a lot at the prospect of mass murder of Arab peoples, especially Palestinians. (No, he doesn't say this in the clip, but it is coming up as I figure out how to work this blog.)
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i don't like bill maher.
very interesting analysis. any suggestions on how to educate them?
It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to educate them. It would take a long time, no doubt. But some of Bill Maher's guests, like Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, George Galloway, and Cornel West do understand the issues well and could educate him on the facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Our best efforts could be directed at writing letters directly to Bill Maher, which he'll never read, or simply sneer at if he does, and/or to writing to open minds such as Cornel West to ask them to bring up Palestine on Bill's show, or not to back down, as Dr. West recently did, when Bill Maher attacked Islam as a religion that asks its followers to murder infidels.
But how do you educate a bigot? It's an age-old question.
damn, the clip has been deleted! i'm so anxious to watch it myself, although i really appreciate your post otherwise. i'm glad to hear that jason alexander seems to have an open mind and a heart in the right place.
any ideas as to if i can find the clip elsewhere? i've googled like a madman but it seems to have gone up in smoke. hate it when that happens!
:(
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