With that, we bring in Howie,
Kerr's host of media buzz.
Howie, good to have you here.
I think the Wall Street Journal laid this out fairly
well in an editorial today.
They said on one side are Israel's democratic leaders waging
a war to reclaim hostages and root out terrorists in
Gaza.
On the other side is Hamas,
which precipitated the war. Lumping them together is a slander
for the history books.
Imagine some international body prosecuting Tojo and Roosevelt or Hitler
and Churchill amid World War 2.
What do you think of all this Howie?
Well, Amal Clooney is a Uber liberal human rights activist
and attorney.
She her statement refers to Palestine as if it was
a country and is really appalling and unacceptable for her
to advise the ICC that Hamas and Israel on the
same moral ground. Hamas kills civilians deliberately,
as we saw in the October 7th massacre,
worst one day death toll since the Holocaust,
and Israel tries to minimize civilian casualties by dropping leaflets
and issuing warnings.
Now, critics can argue that Israel has used excessive force
or that it's created a humanitarian crisis and famine in
Gaza.
But to compare it to a
terrorist organization, Bibi Netanyahu, the fascinating quote kind of echoes
what you just said.
This is creating a moral equivalence after September 11th between
President Bush and Osama bin Laden or during World War
2 between FDR and Hitler.
Yeah, it's, it's done. I mean,
Israel was attacked. Hamas treats the people of the Palestinian
territory
horribly. They use them as human Shields,
they oppress them and if they think that people are
rising up against them in any way,
they are punished with great force.
So I I think, you know,
it's a point that is not probably made enough.
You say though interestingly with with President Biden's forceful reaction
to this,
that this may politically give him give him room to
to align more closely with Israel.
Yeah, after all the friction between him and Bibi Netanyahu,
the president by saying that this is not genocide and
totally embracing Israel and criticizing the ICC as are Republicans
by the way led by Speaker Mike Johnson who is
calling for sanctions against the ICCI think it does sort
of help men.
Maybe some of those wounds.
But you know the irony here is the other half
of the celebrity couple,
George Clooney is going to be
one of the main celebrity faces of the Biden campaign.
Must have been some interesting dinner table conversations about this
because while he's going to Co host next month a
Biden Obama fundraiser and make digital ads for the Biden
campaign. In fact his wife is saying that Biden is
supporting a war criminal.
Yeah we just put up the the pictures.
June 15th there's going to be a huge fundraiser.
Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, Jimmy Kimmel,
George Clooney, Julia Roberts, you know,
does this. He, he, the president has been in a
very tough spot here with this because he's got all
these Hamas protesters.
I'm sorry, he has pro
pro Palestinian protesters, anti Israel protesters,
pretty much everywhere he goes.
So if he goes down this road and he says
and he's defending Israel on this point,
is that going to be politically vulnerable for him?
Yeah, it's a tough situation.
For all of his support of Israel though,
people can differ on you know,
for example, withholding the 2000 LB bombs for the expected
invasion of Rafah.
The far left and that includes the left wing of
the Democratic Party
hates Israel and there's some
anti-Semitism there among some, certainly not all.
And so that has really created,
has put Biden in a box and it's certainly hurt
him politically.
And everywhere he goes there are these you know,
genocide Joe protesters trying to shut him down.
Yeah, super quick thought. 20 seconds,
Howie, on the developments in the trial today downtown for
Trump.
Yeah, we're really at the heart of it now.
This is such a stretch by Alvin Bragg and his
prosecutors to tie it to another crime.
New York laws you were talking about earlier.
But the jury instructions, boring as they may be,
really may determine the outcome of this case.
And I have to say,
the judge has given the prosecution a lot more running
room than he has the Trump defense.
Howie, thank you. Always great to have you with us.