On Monday night’s The Daily Show , Jon Stewart took a step away from his rival pundits who are reporting on the latest Israel/Hamas conflict to criticize the media’s handing of the violence as a whole.
Stewart recapped the latest conflict , making an argument that the violence reaches farther back than Operation Pillar of Defense. “So the fighting began last week when Hamas launched hundreds of rockets at Israel which were, I guess, in retaliation for Israel killing the head of Hamas’s military, which some way was actually a retaliation for Hamas holding an Israeli sollier hostage for five years, which might have been, I don’t know, retaliation for Israeli settlement expansion, which was in retaliation from what I’ve heard,”
He then cut himself off: “You know what, let’s go back to when this thing started,” he said, showing the “dawn of man” scene from Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey .
“You really miss the election, don’t you?” he asked the media. “Did anybody lose this [bleep] thing? Did anybody lose? Did anybody actually lose in this bloody conflict that killed over 150 people?”
“So the lesson here is the next time your region descends into a war you have got to be in it to win it,” he concluded.
Here’s the clip: