The Daily Show‘s host Jon Stewart returned Monday evening to criticize Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, likening his nation’s remote explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies aimed toward focusing on Lebanon’s paramilitary group Hezbollah to one thing out of a Nineteen Eighties Bond movie.
“By the way in which, Lebanon can also be a rustic,” Stewart mentioned, responding to a clip of Netanyahu saying he won’t tolerate “wanton rocketing” of Israel. The host additionally questioned what Netanyahu was doing if not “wanton rocketing” of different nations, to uproarious applause from the viewers.
“What makes you suppose they’re going to just accept your rocketing or no matter different James Bond sh– you’ve been as much as?” he requested.
He continued, saying, “Exploding pagers. Ah! Lebanon anticipated Israel to assault from the south however as a substitute they attacked from the Nineteen Eighties. What?!”
The political-comic host then joked that Lebanon ought to hit again with a pixelated green-and-white arcade taking pictures recreation from that period.
Persevering with his phase, Stewart mentioned nothing is extra indicative of the “language calisthenics” employed to explain the disaster as Israel’s “de-escalation via escalation” tactic, which he known as the footnote to World Battle II.
“De-escalation via escalation, the place have I heard—” he started, pulling up copies of George Orwell’s 1984, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5 and, lastly, the comedian e book assortment Garfield Fats Cat 3-Pack.
“Although I do take problem with one in all Garfield’s bromides: I occur to like Mondays. It’s the beginning and finish of each work week. Although I hear Fridays are good,” he joked, shrugging.
Elsewhere within the phase, Stewart critiqued the U.S. authorities’s declare that it’s “tirelessly working” towards a ceasefire and the prevention of a “wider conflict,” which is now a actuality, via the Lebanon assault, that some, together with ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, have denounced as an act of “terrorism.”
