Jon Stewart Presents an Israel-Hamas Peace Plan on ‘Daily Show’

Jon Stewart opened his 3rd return episode of The Daily Program by noting his initial 2 episodes produced some conflict, so today he was mosting likely to deal with … the Israel– Hamas battle. And throughout the program of his talk, Stewart supplied a genuine concept for addressing the dilemma.

Initially, the host explored the present circumstance, which has actually seen Israel battle Gaza in its initiatives to remove Hamas complying with the horror team’s Oct. 7 shock strike. Stewart especially condemned Israel, which has actually come under prevalent objection for its project that’s led to countless private fatalities and prevalent difficulty in Gaza.

“You’re planning to eliminate Hamas by destroying all of Gaza?” Stewart claimed.“[Hamas is] an idea. Do you have a bomb that kills ideas? I mean, how long would it even take to bomb the shit out of an idea?”

Concerning the Biden management pressing Israel to be extra cautious, Stewart buffooned,“‘Could you please be more careful when you’re bombing?’ It’s good advice. But couldn’t the United States have told Israel that when we gave them all the bombs? They’re our bombs! It’s like your coke dealer coming in with an eight ball and going, ‘Don’t stay up all night.’”

When it comes to Hamas, Stewart played a clip of a leader of the team proclaiming Israel should be “removed.”

“So Israel, the United States, the United Nations, the Arab nations — no one seems to be incentivized to stop the suffering of the innocent people in this region,” Stewart wrapped up.

After That Stewart supplied his very own prepare for peace in the area. Well, Stewart really suggested 3 strategies, however the initial 2 were jokes. His 3rd concept was honest and it went like this: “Heaven forbid, I actually think this last one could work. Starting now, no preconditions, no earned trust, no partners for peace: Israel stops bombing, Hamas releases the hostages. The Arab countries who claim Palestine as their top priority come in and form a demilitarized zone between Israel and a free Palestinian state. The Saudis Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Jordan — they all form like a NATO arrangement guaranteeing security for both sides. Obviously, they won’t call it NATO. It’s the Middle East Treaty Organization — METO. Obviously, I have not worked out the exact verbiage, but anything is better than the cluster cycle we have now. Because honestly, what is the alternative?”

Stewart after that organized 2 Center East specialists that concurred his concept has quality, however likewise described the problems and problems with such a proposition.

Stewart has actually been back on The Everyday Program for 3 weeks– organizing Mondays with the governmental political election– and his initial episode supplied the late evening program’s greatest scores in a number of years.