Joe Scarborough is notorious for his incessant Trump = Hitler analogies. Now, for purposes of smearing Benjamin Netanyahu, Scarborough has devised an analogy to another mass-murdering dictator.
On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough began by claiming that Netanyahu “had a plan to force famine on the Palestinian people, on the Gazan people.”
Scarborough then upped the ante, claiming that Netanyahu’s plan is “calculated, and let me say, it’s calculated just like Stalin’s starvation of Ukrainians was calculated. This is calculated by Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Scarborough’s mention of Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine was a reference to the Holomodor, a famine imposed on Ukraine in 1932-33 by Stalin in which an estimated 3.9 million Ukrainians perished.
As the maxim goes, in war, truth is the first casualty. Various anti-Israel organizations have accused Israel of…
