On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid argued that Israel’s strike on Iran on Thursday was “wag the doggish” and designed to distract from the war in Gaza and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an “obsession with Iran” although she added that there is a “mutual” obsession between Netanyahu and Iran.
Reid said, “No Israeli leader has been fixated on Iran as long or as consistently as Benjamin Netanyahu. Since his first year in office in 1996, Netanyahu has been sounding the alarm about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, saying a nuclear Iran would be catastrophic. In his first speech to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., he said time was running out. In the years since, he has threatened to attack Iran if it were to develop nuclear weapons, a threat that is backed by the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons,…