Bill Maher, Mouthpiece for Left, Actually Praises Trump on Jerusalem Decision

HBO’s Bill Maher, who normally speaks on the side of the left and bashes both Republicans and President Donald Trump with regularity, publicly sided with the White House on Jerusalem.

In somewhat surprising remarks, Maher actually gave praise to Trump on his decision to move the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

From the Algemeiner:

On the “Real Time” show on HBO on Friday, host Bill Maher praised US President Donald Trump’s decision last month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“I hate to agree with Donald Trump, and it doesn’t happen often, but I do. I don’t know why Israel — it has been their capital since 1949, it is where their government is. They’ve won all the wars thrown against them. I don’t understand why they don’t get to have their capital where they want,” Maher said.

The discussion wasn’t without its haters, though.

Haaretz has more:

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg quickly shot back, “Really, you don’t understand that? First of all, when you win a war you don’t get to take the other side’s land.”

“Actually, you do,” argued Maher. “Especially because they were attacked. I mean the country was divided, which they were okay with. They were attacked more than once and they took land in those wars that they won and there has been peace offers on the table ever since to give part of that land back.”

Later in the discussion Maher argued that the Palestinians were the hindrance to peace in the conflict saying, “But the essential thing that is making the two-state solution impossible is that one party is perpetually hostile, a coiled snake.”

Goldberg shot back by imploring Maher to go to the West Bank and see the occupation with his own eyes before jumping to such conclusions, “You’re a rich person, you should go see what life in the West Bank is like. Go to Hebron. Like, no, go see it.”