{"id":518513,"date":"2021-05-17T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=518513"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:05:59","slug":"john-oliver-accuses-israel-of-war-crimes-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-oliver-accuses-israel-of-war-crimes-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Accuses Israel Of War Crimes, Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-oliver-accuses-israel-of-war-crimes-apartheid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=518513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JohnOliver.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Far-left comedian John Oliver trashed Israel on his HBO show this past weekend, accusing the U.S. ally of war crimes and of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oliver, Israel\u2019s sophisticated defense system \u2013 The Iron Dome \u2013 prevents Hamas rockets from hitting Israeli targets, which Oliver considers an unfair power imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael has [the] so-called Iron Dome. And I know \u2018What if we blew up the rockets with more rockets?\u2019 Sounds like something someone drunkenly wrote down on a napkin once, but it is a real military defense system that works,\u201d argued Oliver. \u201cAnd I also know not all the rockets were shot down. Israeli civilians were killed this week, which is terrible. But the point is, this isn\u2019t \u2018Tit for tat.\u2019 There is a massive imbalance when it comes to the two sides\u2019 weaponry and capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oliver then compared the Hamas rocket strikes with Israeli airstrikes, which he characterized as overwhelmingly violent and unnecessarily destructive. Oliver referred to some of these attacks as \u201cwar crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile most of the rockets aimed toward Israeli citizens this week were intercepted, Israel\u2019s airstrikes were not,\u201d he said. \u201cThey hit their targets, including a house in a refugee camp, a building housing the associated press and Al Jazeera, and this 13-story office and apartment building. And while Israel insisted that there were military targets in that building and that they\u2019d destroyed it as humanely as possible, even warning people to evacuate beforehand. For the record, destroying a civilian residence sure seems like a war crime regardless of whether you send a courtesy heads-up text.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=06Erd3etVjQ&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=06Erd3etVjQ&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-is-a-perfectly-legitimate-target-netanyahu-confirms-israel-shared-intelligence-proving-ap-building-housed-hamas\">defended the strike<\/a> against the Associated Press building as a legitimate target that housed Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shared with our American friends all that intelligence,\u201d Netanyahu said on \u201cFace The Nation.\u201d \u201cHere\u2019s the intelligence we had: it\u2019s about Palestinian terrorists, an intelligence office for the Palestinian terrorist organization, housed in that building, that plots and organizes the terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. So it\u2019s a perfectly legitimate target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu also asserted that Israel took all possible precautions to protect civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo people were killed,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cNow imagine, ask yourself, \u2018how is that possible?\u2019 You see these highrise towers that are used by Hamas. Over and over again they collapse and no one is killed. Why does that happen? Because we, unlike Hamas, take special precautions to tell people to leave the building, leave the premises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make sure everyone is gone before we bring down those terrorist facilities,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the difference between Israel and Hamas. They\u00a0<em>deliberately\u00a0<\/em>target our cities,\u00a0<em>deliberately<\/em> target our civilians. They glorify the death of children and civilians and old people. They\u2019re happy with it. I think they are happy with any deaths that are caused to them. We grieve for\u00a0<em>every<\/em> non-combatant loss in Gaza and we grieve for all our civilians who die. We\u2019re not happy with it and we try to minimize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-is-a-perfectly-legitimate-target-netanyahu-confirms-israel-shared-intelligence-proving-ap-building-housed-hamas\">\u2018It Is A Perfectly Legitimate Target\u2019: Netanyahu Confirms Israel Shared Intelligence Proving AP Building Housed Ham<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-is-a-perfectly-legitimate-target-netanyahu-confirms-israel-shared-intelligence-proving-ap-building-housed-hamas\">as<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-left comedian John Oliver trashed Israel on his HBO show this past weekend, accusing the U.S. ally of war crimes and of apartheid.According to Oliver, Israel\u2019s sophisticated defense system \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278349,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JohnOliver.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"John Oliver Accuses Israel Of War Crimes, Apartheid","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JohnOliver.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"John Oliver Accuses Israel Of War Crimes, Apartheid","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}