Joe Scarborough Buries Netanyahu’s Refusal to Admit He Let Oct 7th Happen: ‘He Was Responsible’ for Hamas’ First Strike
Joe Scarborough slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not taking responsibility for the national security failure that led to Israel’s war with Hamas.
Morning Joe started Tuesday off by reviewing Netanyahu’s press conference, where he defended the Israeli government’s actions in the war while rejecting the idea of resigning despite his national disapproval. Scarborough responded to this by commenting that Netanyahu “left Israelis completely vulnerable” to Hamas’ October 7th attack, and it was “wildly inappropriate” to conflate his political survival with Israelis.
From Scarborough:
He was responsible for that. Not just directly by Israel sleeping and the defense forces sleeping and him obsessing over wars against the courts instead of war against Hamas. Also, because what he did for well over a decade, doing everything he could to avoid peace talks that would lead to a two-state solution.
He was so obsessed with the West Bank and so obsessed to allowing religious extremists to bulldoze down Palestinian homes for political purposes, because he knew that would help him with the far right… that he took his eyes off the terrorists who promised to kill Jews. Took his eyes completely off of it for political reasons…
You can’t be a fierce defender of Israel and listen to what Benjamin Netanyahu said and go, ‘Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right,’ because 80 percent of people inside of Israel think he is responsible.
The conversation continued to surround Israeli discontent with Netanyahu’s leadership, so Scarborough again emphasized that his legacy would be marred by how his mismanagement allowed Hamas’ attack to happen.
“He will be remembered as the man who was responsible for the greatest slaughter of Jews worldwide since the Holocaust,” Scarborough said. “I’m not saying that. Israelis are saying that. The ones who were there. The ones who lost sons, the ones who lost daughters. The ones who lost kids, who lost parents, who lost grandparents. They’re the ones saying it. That’s why he can’t go out and answer questions from Israelis. That’s why the cabinet ministers won’t go out to the people, because they know they’re responsible.”
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