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[VIDEO] Jon Stewart’s Perfect Response to Israel-Lebanon Selfie Controversy

21-01-2015 | 06:12

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[VIDEO] Jon Stewart’s Perfect Response to Israel-Lebanon Selfie Controversy

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On Monday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart humorously announced a new segment: "What Picture Is Upsetting the Middle East This Week?" Instead of discussing Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, the segment concentrated on a selfie between Israel and Lebanon at the Miss Universe pageant that seemingly transfers major political effects.

"What is the problem?" asks Stewart. "It's not even co-ed."

Miss Lebanon, Saly Jreij, is being criticized in Lebanon for appearing in the same picture as the shining representative of her country's No. 1 enemy, Israel.

Jreij declared her innocence, claiming she was "photobombed" by Israel.

"Does everything that happens between Middle East countries have to be a bombing?" Stewart says. "In the overall area of that photo, she's only taking up a very narrow strip at the edge. I mean what do you want to do? Push her back to, say, pre-1967 photo borders?"

Donald Trump, the pageant's owner, even condemned the international fuss, dubbing it "very sad." Stewart, in turn, had to agree with Trump.

After all, it's just a competition, he says: "It's the one chance in the whole year when all nations can put aside their differences, come together in Miami and as one treat women like expensive food instead human beings."

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