John Oliver waded into the war between Israel and Hamas on Sunday evening, with a particular focus on the leadership undergirding the conflict. There wasn’t enough time to talk about the history of the Middle East – “I’m actually technically a comedy show, I just hide it better than most,” said Oliver on Last Week Tonight – or recap “thousands of years of generational trauma informing the response to this, including the Holocaust and the Nakba or mass violent displacement of Palestinians during and after Israel’s founding”. “I’m also not going to do a historical blow by blow of how...
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