MORNING JOE CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY NETANYAHU KEEPS GETTING REELECTED

Joe Scarborough cannot get it through his thick head that not only has Netanyahu made Israeli lives better, but he's also made them safer

By Jim Sinkinson

Flame
April 16, 2019

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough recently lamented, "Some of us don't understand why [Israelis] would keep reelecting Netanyahu. I certainly don't . . . Because you think they would want a lasting peace, and he is certainly not ever going to do that."

Scarborough ignores what most Israelis cannot ignore. Not only has Netanyahu made their lives better, but he's also made them safer. And security for Israelis—unlike for comfortable Americans—is their number one issue.

Israel is encircled by vicious enemies who demonstrate their desire to destroy the Jewish state—and kill Jews—every day: Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and blood-thirsty, civil-war-wracked Syria to the north, Palestinian terrorist regime Hamas to the south, the implacable Jew-hating, terrorist-rewarding Palestinian Authority to the east, and hateful, ICBM-equipped Iran, now occupying Syria and hovering like a black cloud over all of Israel.

Despite the naïve belief of American liberals—including, apparently, Joe Scarborough—Israelis don't see a single Palestinian leader who has the desire or power to negotiate a "lasting peace" with them.

What average Israelis do see and hear are Palestinian leaders who outrageously insist that Jews have no historical rights to a state in the Holy Land and that Arabs own the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea (in other words, all of Israel and Judea-Samaria).

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently affirmed to PLO delegates that Israel "constitutes a colonialist enterprise that has nothing to do with Judaism." Secretary-general of the anti-Israel group, The International Coalition for Supporting Jerusalem and Palestine, Mohammed al-Adloni, flatly rules out peace negotiations, claiming that "normalization [with Israel] is tantamount to defeat."

Worse, Palestinian leaders swear undying enmity toward the Jewish state.

In other words, American Jews and American leftists who object to Prime Minister Netanyahu care little for his accomplishments, but rather cite disagreement with his positions on several issues in which they have very little direct stake (such as forging an immediate peace with the Palestinians, no matter its existential dangers, and opening the Kotel to mixed-gender prayer).

In truth, the Netanyahu haters' animus seems to be rooted in emotion, rather than substance. One can only conclude that the American left's dislike of Binyamin Netanyahu is similar to that which they feel for Donald Trump—not so much based on actual issues as on a gut revulsion to the person or personality. Indeed, Mr. Netanyahu's close professional friendship with President Trump could alone account for most of the left's disdain of the Israeli Prime Minister.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I remember when Joe Scarborough was a conservative congressman. Then MSNBC partnered him up with Mika Brzezinski who infected him with her leftism. Her late father Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, was a frequent critic of Israel and once implied that if Israeli warplanes were to attack Iran, we should shoot them down as they flew over Iraqi airspace.