On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Read Out,” host Joy Read said Thursday’s Israeli attack on Iran was “piss the dog” and aimed at distracting from the war in Gaza, and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to be “obsessed with Iran.” But she added that there is a “mutual” attachment between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Iran.
“No Israeli leader has been as obsessed with Iran as long or as consistently as Benjamin Netanyahu,” Reid said. Since 1996, his first year in office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, saying it would be disastrous. He said in his first address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., that time is running out. Since then, he has threatened to attack Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, a threat backed up by the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons, but Israel has not publicly acknowledged it. There are almost no Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsession with Iran — which, it should be noted, is mutual — has taken on new resonance in an unprecedented week of direct attacks between the two countries, which have waged a proxy war for years. It’s tinged. Israel carried out limited strikes overnight, firing three air-launched ballistic missiles at Iran, targeting an air base. Israel vowed on Saturday to respond to Iranian retaliatory strikes when the country launched more than 300 drones and missiles in its first direct military attack on Israel. The Iranian airstrike was carried out in retaliation for an April 1 Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria that killed two top Iranian commanders. But there is another important reason for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s special focus on Iran. That happens to take away attention and heat from Gaza. ”
She went on to say that the Israeli attacks “felt a little dog-eared to me. These attacks don’t seem to be intended to spark World War III, but they did draw attention away from Gaza. There is no mistake.”
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