The ‘Israel dragged us into war’ canard

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Democrats, isolationists, and other Israel obsessives like to blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for all the wars of the Middle East. They found a new opening for their hobby horse yesterday with an out-of-context snippet from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio told the press. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.” 

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