On Thursday, comedian Joan Rivers delivered perhaps her most shocking rant to date, telling paparazzi at LAX that Palestinian civilians in Gaza “deserved to die.”
When asked about the rising death toll in Gaza, the 81-year-old was incensed, telling one photographer: “The dead? You deserve to be dead. You started it. Don’t you dare make me feel sad about that.”
When told that almost 2,000 civilians had been killed, she replied, “Oh my God! Tell that to the people in Hiroshima.”
“Good. Good. When you declare war, you declare war. They started it,” she said, going on to describe Gaza’s Hamas government as “Terrorists. They were re-elected by a lot of very stupid people.”
“They were told to get out. They didn’t get out. You don’t get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs.”
Rivers has already issued an apology — of sorts — for her remarks, placing the blame on the media for taking her comments “out of context.”
In recent months, Rivers’ trademark barbed insults have offended many: She referred to first lady Michelle Obama as a “tranny,” joked about Lindsay Lohan’s miscarriage and attacked half the women in Hollywood in her recently published book.