Jon Lovitz: Palestinians Are Really Jordanian Refugees That Continue To Reject A Two-State Solution

WATTERS: Actor and comedian, Jon Lovitz joins us now.

All right, Lovitz, I know you're a big Disney guy. You're taking the family to Disneyworld. You've got the fast passes, you're all set. And then you're five hours late because pro Hamas protesters are sitting in the middle of the freeway. How do you handle it?

LOVITZ: I would drive around them. There's always obstacles in life and that -- you said it, they disrupt the traffic. The Hamas disrupted the deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations. They disrupted Jerry Seinfeld's commencement speech. They just -- that's what they do, you know?

And they go after certain things. It's to get press like which they're getting. And, you know, the whole thing is a lie. It is not a genocide, it's a war. And you go, who's organizing it? It's the Students for Justice for Palestine. They have 250 chapters on all the campuses and they're funded by AMP, which is the American Muslims for Palestine. And the AMP, they fund among other things, Hamas.

So it's all connected.

WATTERS: Queers for Palestine.

LOVITZ: They want to take all the people in power, like they did in Dearborn, Michigan. That's what they want to do.

WATTERS: Yes. I didn't think I'd see Queers for Palestine.

LOVITZ: That's the most insane thing ever because if they went -- if those people into Gaza, they would, Hamas would kill them, literally. They push gay people off of buildings. This isn't a democracy, you know, and I understand it's bad that that people are getting -- innocent civilians in Palestine are getting killed in a war, but it's a war that Hamas started and they wanted a never ending war.

Now they want a ceasefire. I guarantee you if Israel was losing, there'd be no ceasefire and you can't reason with these people. Hezbollah, years ago, they invaded Israel killed eight soldiers, kidnapped two, took them back as hostages. So Israel says, there's no acceptable losses.

So they drop pamphlets on Lebanon saying to people, tomorrow at three o'clock, we're going to be bombing to get our hostages back, get out. And Hezbollah said, can you believe they're bombing Lebanon? And they go, well, you captured two of our soldiers and you killed eight of our soldiers. They go, oh, you're just using that as an excuse.

You can't reason with that mentality. They also killed those two hostages, by the way.

WATTERS: Yes.

LOVITZ: And this is the same thing, exact thing, but on a bigger scale.

WATTERS: Yes, most people when they wage war, don't drop, save the date notes on the enemy so the civilians can get out of the way.

LOVITZ: Right.

WATTERS: So Seinfeld is out there trying to tell these kids how to live a successful happy life and they left, Lovitz. They just walked out. They didn't even hear a single ounce of wisdom. And do you even think that they understand that no one is talking about Israel and Palestine? We're talking about how stupid they look.

LOVITZ: I think they have no idea and what did they achieve by walking out? They ruined their own graduation and 20 years from now, they are going to look back and say, I ruined my own graduation.

I mean, I think people have a right to protest. But just go get a permit. You give them a place to protest. They don't have a right to block traffic. They don't have a right to ruin other things. I don't think so.

But they do have a right to get a permit and protest. That's America. You're not going to agree with everybody. Give them -- get a permit and give them a space to do it that's not interfering with everything else.

And then if they want to try and get press for it, and you know, try to get press, but that's what this is about. And, you know, Israel is fighting terrorists, the same as the United States fought the terrorists that brought down you know, the World Trade Center on 9/11. It's the same thing.

WATTERS: It is.

LOVITZ: Israel is our ally. Israel is a democracy. Queers for Palestine would be murdered in Gaza and the Palestinians have five chances at the same time Israel was created to have their own state and they turned it down every time because they don't want a two-state solution. They want Israel. They weren't the land of Israel.

And they're not even really Palestinians, they're Jordanian refugees and Yasser Arafat changed it to calling them Palestinians in 1964. But they've had five deals, and they are people and they deserve a decent life and everything. And Israel pulled all the Jews out of Gaza and gave them Gaza.

So, there is no occupation. There is no genocide. Israel paid for the land. They didn't take it and on and on.

Everything is a lie.

WATTERS: It's crazy. No, it is crazy. You should have been a commencement speaker. People could have learned a lot, and if they wanted --

LOVITZ: Well, Jerry -- Jerry is a great guy. I've known him for years. You know, he's the guy that you know, he does the most innocuous humor about like lint in your belly button. Where does it come from? I want to know, and that's who they're protesting.

Because he went to Israel. Yes, because he's Jewish like me. He's the same age and Jews of our generation of Israel goes, we go. And in the United States, we have nowhere to go.

WATTERS: All right, I like your shirt, Lovitz. What's on that by the way?

LOVITZ: Ice cream cones.

WATTERS: Delicious. Have a great night.

LOVITZ: Thank you.