The Daily Show‘s host Jon Stewart returned Monday night to criticize Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, likening his country’s remote explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies aimed at targeting Lebanon’s paramilitary group Hezbollah to something out of a 1980s Bond film. “By the way, Lebanon is also a country,” Stewart said, responding to a clip of Netanyahu saying he will not tolerate “wanton rocketing” of Israel.
The host also questioned what Netanyahu was doing if not “wanton rocketing” of other nations, to uproarious applause from the audience. “What makes you think they’re going to accept your rocketing or whatever other James Bond sh– you’ve been up to?” he asked.
He continued, saying, “Exploding pagers. Ah! Lebanon expected Israel to attack from the south but instead they attacked from the 1980s.
What?!” The political-comic host then joked that Lebanon should hit back with a pixelated green-and-white arcade shooting game from that era.
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