British television host John Oliver, who became an American citizen in 2019, ripped America for supporting Israel, prompting actor-comedian Jon Lovitz to blast him with some facts and ask God to bless America for its support of the Jewish state.
“This country has emphatically picked a side,” Oliver, who accused Israel of “war crimes” and a “form of apartheid” in 2021, declared. “In recent years, we’ve given Israel $3.8 billion a year in military aid. You can make geopolitical arguments as to why that is or isn’t a valid thing to do, but it means we’re heavily implicated.”
“Nearly all military aid to Israel—other than loan guarantees, which cost Washington nothing, the U.S. gives Israel no other kind of aid—consists of credits that go directly from the Pentagon to U.S. weapons manufacturers,” Tablet Magazine has noted.
Lovitz fired back at Oliver, “Yes. The United States is aligned with Israel, our Democratic ally, not Hamas, a terrorist organization who…