“I don’t really want to tell jokes about carnage right now. And I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to hear them,” the host said before sharing his “sorrow, fear, and anger” over the ongoing attacks.
For five minutes before the show’s title card appeared, Oliver addressed “the immense suffering in Israel and Gaza,” noting that it “has been sickening to watch.” He continued: “We’re not going to be covering it in the main body of our show tonight for a couple of reasons. First, it’s horrific. I don’t really want to tell jokes about carnage right now. And I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to hear them. And second, we’re taping this on Saturday afternoon.
This has all the appearances of collective punishment, which is a war crime. And I think many Israelis and Palestinians are feeling justifiable anger right now, not just at Hamas, whose utterly heinous terrorist acts set this week’s events in motion, but also at the zealots and extremists across the board who consistently thwarted attempts at peace over the years. Israelis and Palestinians have been let down by their leadership time and time again.
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