Donny Deutsch and Scarborough Spar over Israel: I’m Not Defending Netanyahu!
EXCERPT:
SCARBOROUGH: "I think if you went back and looked at polls after October 7th, you’d see a lot of people, including myself, nonstop supporting Israel, talking nonstop, had Jonathan Greenblatt on here, like every third day, talking about anti-Semitism in America, anti-Semitism in New York City, anti-Semitism in Europe, anti-Semitism on college campuses."
DEUTSCH: "Why did it spike?
SCARBOROUGH: "I have been spending the last 20 years — "
DEUTSCH: "And I have lauded you many times, yes."
SCARBOROUGH: " — on television talking about anti-Semitism, and I’m smirking because it would be — I would fit it somehow in between takes on 'The Daily Show' and a dog floating down the river on a board the Mississippi river. More on that when John Morgan is on the show. He got canceled when he was on 'Scarborough Country' one time. And in the middle of that, I would talk about anti-Semitism. So I’m just telling you, you asked, why did this happen? You know what? Some people need to put a mirror up against themselves and say, sometimes taking an absolutist view — "
DEUTSCH: "I’m not an absolutist."
SCARBOROUGH: "And turning a blind eye to the suffering that’s going on out there — "
DEUTSCH: "Not turning blind eye."
SCARBOROUGH: "I mean, it’s okay for you. It’s for you to look at Gaza and say, that’s horrifying. Just the way I look at — I look at the girls who were killed on the first day of the war, and I'm still horrified as an American."
DEUTSCH: "And I'm horrified that innocent Gazans are getting killed. What I’m saying is that Israel, who’s prosecuting a war, is under a different level of volume of attention and criticism and volume that we’ve never seen with any other country or religion. That’s it. I’m not defending Netanyahu."
SCARBOROUGH: "Let me just say, you rest assured that the day, the week, the month after the polls are closed this fall, the top three issues will be costs, costs and costs. It will not be Israel. It will not be Palestine. It will not be foreign countries. It will be costs, costs and costs."
