On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, Iranian-American guest Reza Aslan questioned the morality of the United States supplying Israel with weapons that in turn get used to target Hamas but inadvertently kill Palestinian civilians.

Maher defended the allegation and wondered why Israel was the target of all of the criticisms. With the caveat that he knows Israel is "horrible," Maher asked why there aren't protests against the countries that are crucifying its own people, or Boko Haram that have killed more people this year than Israel.

Aslan maintained that Israel is worse because of its use of American weapons. He also denied that Hamas was using its own civilians as human shields, to the ire of the panel.

Maher jumped in with a full defense of Israel:

It's a war. It's a war that Hamas started and somehow when Israel reacts to this, they have to do everything in a way that doesn't kill any civilians. People die in wars. Now, I've said this before on this show, if the situation was reversed, Hamas would kill every single person in Israel. The reason why that's not happening is because they can't. Because they can't, doesn't make them good, it makes them weak.

Aslan got the last word:

Last time I checked, 'We're Better Than Hamas' is not Israel's national motto. This idea that somehow because Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel's a democracy there is no moral equivalence -- you're absolutely right, there is no moral equivalence. It's the democracy that requires greater criticism. It's the democracy that has to live up to the values that it ascribes for itself.

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