On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while he thinks parts of President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal are outlandish, the idea that Gaza can be better “is something I’ve read in op-eds in The New York Times ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,” and “it’s good to open a window and let in some fresh air, because people do get locked into silly ideas that we then take as the groupthink.”
Maher began the discussion by saying, “Let’s move on to troops on the ground in the Middle East, which is always a great idea. When has that ever not worked? Okay, now, here’s where I’m going to give you a little daylight, because like the idea that Gaza could be something else — he said it’s going to be the riviera, okay, that’s a little ridiculous — but, this idea that it could be Dubai, instead of Haiti…it could be something…
