Bill Maher Delivers Stunning 8-Minute New Rule On Israel And Palestine: ‘You All Die And Disappear”

Pundit and comic Bill Maher delivered a stunning rebuke of the media, rhetoric on campuses, and the leadership in the West Bank and Gaza, Friday, calling it a needed “dose of realism” about Israel and Palestine.

In an over eight minute closer to his New Rules segment on the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher , the host laid into those who say things like “From the River to the Sea” or who expect Israel to cease to exist as a state.

“I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: Nowhere,” he said in the segment.

The latest New Rule began with Maher mentioning Christmas, saying “I know it’s supposed to be that magical time of year, but maybe what we all really need right now is a good dose of realism.”

He spent a great deal of time going over historic examples of countries, borders, empires, and ancestral lands changing over time, and emphasized that Jews have been the object of that displacement many times before.

He also pointed out that, “nobody was a bigger colonizer than the Muslim army that swept out of the Arabian desert and took over much of the world in a single century.”

“And they didn’t do it by asking,” he said. “There’s a reason Saudi Arabia’s flag is a sword.”

After the history he turned to the leadership among Palestinians and the “useful idiots on college campuses who are their ‘allies,'” saying they are not doing the Palestinian people “any favors by keeping alive the ‘River to the Sea’ myth.”

“I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: Nowhere,” he said. “It’s one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion economy, the world’s second largest tech sector after Silicon Valley, and nuclear weapons.”

“They’re here, they like their bagel with a schmear, get used to it,” he added.

Maher also brought up the media, as he tends to do most episodes, for “glossing over” the reality of the situation.

“What the media glosses over is it’s hard to negotiate when the other side’s bargaining position is you all die and disappear,” he said.

As he closed, Maher was even more direct about the subtext of the pro-Palestine rhetoric heard in protests in the U.S. and from the leadership in Gaza and the West Bank.

“If I give you the benefit of the doubt and say your plan for a completely Jew-less Palestine isn’t that all the Jews should die,” he began, pausing briefly with a skeptical expression. “What is the only other option? They move. You move all the Jews.”

“Okay, I got to warn you, there’s going to be some kvetching,” he said. “You move all the Jews, and we do this with what? A fleet of trucks called Jew-Haul? And to where are we moving this entire country? Texas? Sure they have room, and I guess we could put the Wailing Wall on the border and kill two birds with one stone.”

“Or we could just get serious,” he said, wrapping up.

Watch the full clip here from the Real Time YouTube page.

MAHER : The Palestinian people should know your leaders and the useful idiots on college campuses who are their allies are not doing you any favors by keeping alive the “River to the Sea” myth. I mean, where do you think Israel is going? Spoiler alert: Nowhere.

It’s one of the most powerful countries in the world with a $500 billion economy, the world’s second largest tech sector after Silicon Valley, and nuclear weapons. They’re here, they like their bagel with a schmear, get used to it.

What’s happening to Palestinians today is horrible. And not just in Gaza, in the West Bank, too. But wars end with negotiation. And what the media glosses over is it’s hard to negotiate when the other side’s bargaining position is you all die and disappear.

I mean, the chant from the river to the sea? Yeah. Let’s look at the map. Here’s the river. Here’s the sea. Oh, I see. It means you get all of it. Not just the West Bank, which was basically the original U.N. partition deal you rejected because you wanted all of it and always have. Even though it’s indisputably also the Jews ancestral homeland.

And so, you were attacked, and lost. And attacked again. And lost. And attacked again. And lost. As my friend Dr. Phil says, how’s that working for you?

Look at what Mexico used to own. All the way up to the top of California. But no Mexican is out there chanting “from the Rio Grande to Portland, Oregon.” Because they chose a different path. They got real and built a country that’s the world’s 14th biggest economy now. Because they knew the United States wasn’t going to give back Phoenix any more than Hamas will ever be in Tel Aviv.

One of the leaders of Hamas says “save yourselves time and imaginary dreams. In a few years, Allah willing, you will have to discuss the situation in the region after Israel.” I’m sorry, who’s the one with imaginary dreams?

If I give you the benefit of the doubt and say your plan for a completely Jew-less Palestine isn’t that all the Jews should die — What is the only other option? They move. You move all the Jews. Okay, I got to warn you, there’s going to be some kvetching. You move all the Jews, and we do this with what? A fleet of trucks called Jew-Haul?

And to where are we moving this entire country? Texas? Sure they have room, and I guess we could put the Wailing Wall on the border and kill two birds with one stone. Or we could just get serious.

Watch the clip above via Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO .