Joe Scarborough Floats Withholding Aid from Israel
By: Mediaite
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough toyed with the idea of the United States withholding aid from Israel until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is removed from power on the heels of a bombshell New York Times report Friday morning.
On Thursday evening, the Timesrevealed that the Israeli government had received warnings about the kind of terror attack launched by Hamas on October 7 over a year ago, but ultimately "dismissed the plan as aspirational" and "too difficult for Hamas to carry out."
After a discussion about the revelation, Scarborough suggested that the United States might be wise to withhold aid from Israel until Netanyahu is replaced.
"We mourn the terror attack as a nation and we support the Israelis. At this point, we still support the Israelis. But this idea that we're going to continue supporting Netanyahu's government and have them saying, 'Well, you know, we'll get to it when we get to it.' The United States could say that after 9/11, because the United States was fighting that war," argued Scarborough. "And we had allies, but we were funding the overwhelming majority of it. The Israelis know it, certainly our enemies across the Middle East know it: We are the primary funder of Israel and we are propping Israel up so they can continue this fight not only against Hamas, but for their very existence."
He continued:
You see something like this [the Times report], you keep looking at the mistakes the Netanyahu government makes, and let me add: You look at the chaos in the West Bank that I lay all at the feet of Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies over the past ten years. People, listen closely, I didn't, I didn't blame his policies for the attack in Gaza, but the chaos in the West Bank that threatens any peace process moving forward and also threatens another, a second front in this war, possibly a third front in this war.
The United States has the right to say, "If we're going to continue propping up your government, if you don't have faith in this guy who knew this was coming a year away, we need a better partner." And Benjamin Netanyahu is not that partner. When do we get to that point? Because if I were in Congress, this is what I'd be saying, and if I'm saying it as one of the biggest supporters of Israel, then there have got to be a lot of other people saying it. We're not going to throw money down a rat hole for a government that knew this was coming for a year and didn't do anything.
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I dont think all of Israel should be punished because their leader is a narcissistic jackass. Otherwise we would have had to punish ourselves from 2017-2020.
Maybe we can get Biden to do what Obama did and interfere in an Israeli election:
Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu - Washington Times
thehill.com/policy/international/236875-rubio-obama-sent-operatives-to-israel-to-defeat-netanyahu/
The US has interfered in other countries' elections going back to the 1800s and a lot worse in many cases.
Correct. Obama did against our interests.
US and Israel sign record $38bn military aid deal
President Obama 2016
Netanyahu is a supporter of the Israeli far right religious crusade that has made the West Bank into a place of such misery.
So, why was Israel attacked by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza and not from the West Bank? Are you suggesting that Mahmoud Abbas is a sponsor of terror?
The detractors need to make up their minds. Is Benjamin Netanyahu too hardline or too soft?
you are about one inch away from trolling. address the seed
We have major issues with anyone messing with our elections but according to Joe we should withhold defense money because we don't like who Israel elected.
Interesting
Hate to consider it, but maybe this intel was not ignored. Maybe it was kept quiet because Netanyahu wanted this war. That if Hamas did what it eventually did, he felt it would push the country farther to the right and more people would support him if he dealt with it strongly. That he could move with a freer hand in the West Bank. If so, I don't think he was anticipating the massacre of Oct 7th. If he sat on this for that reason, I think he was surprised by the magnitude of the Hamas attack.
I hope this is just paranoia on my part, though. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first time a government has used such tactics. The fact that the government response in helping affected civilians was practically non-existent for so long suggests that they weren't prepared for this and so, maybe it really is just paranoia on my part. Also, the military was pretty much out of position if the highest levels of government were expecting something eventually. Just never saw Israel drop the ball so badly since the Yom Kippur war.
You are probably on to something.
Hamas breaks the ceasefire, murders civilians, and the left wants to punish Israel.
All sorts of Israeli citizens want Netanyahu gone. Unfortunately that fact will prolong this war. As long as Israel is at war he will claim he needs to stay in control.
If Netanyahu were removed, would his successor call a cease fire and withdraw, without completing the job of eliminating Hamas? Is that what you would like to see?
Most leftists would rather see Hamas completely destroy Israel and all of their people.
Just ask any dumbass college student at an Ivy League school......or any college for that matter.
The Israelis need to deal with their own leadership, our support should not be contingent on whether or not Netanyahu is in office.
So disable Israel by cutting it off from weapons and military support, so Israel will be wiped out, and America will be the next target. Good thinking on Scarborough's part.