I'm with Maher on this issue.
Her response was boycott the show, rather than argue her viewpoint. As if she thinks the virtue is all on her side.
I don't like this Jewish government at all. But their harshness is not a product of living in a peaceable neighbourhood.
Nor does my dislike of the Israeli overnment mean I think the Palestinians are all sweetness and light.
It's a really nasty feud for which no one has a good solution. Perhaps if a few decades pass without too much misery, the two peoples will hate one another less, at which point a conversation might be possible. But I doubt that will happen.