The Foolish Four: They Deserve Their Own Thread
Aug 19, 2019 7:47:28 GMT -8
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Post by davidsf on Aug 19, 2019 7:47:28 GMT -8
Let’s start this running commentary on the foolish four, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, with last week’s planned trip to Israel by Omar and Tlaib.
First, however, , lets review the sequence of events:
First, however, , lets review the sequence of events:
- Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib plan a trip to Israel and request entry into the country from Israel’s Interior Minister.
- Israel’s interior Minister denies them entry based on their anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of a boycott of Israel.
- Omar and Tlaib stage a news event lambasting Israel for carrying out Trumps anti-Muslim program
- Tlaib moan and cries that she is not allowed to see her 90 year old Palestinian grandmother and is told Israel would consider a humanitarian request.
- Tlaib sends a request to Israel’s Interior Minister requesting a humanitarian visit to her grandmother in Palestine which is granted...
And this is where an article in Western Journal picks up the story:
So, Tlaib CAN go visit her grandmother, and even committed she would not violate Israel’s trust while there... apparently a condition SHE VOLUNTEERED in her request. All is well, right? Nope.
I’m guessing Israel was not expected to grant her request and she would then use it for further propaganda; when they DID approve her visit, she had to scramble to make it into that propaganda opportunity... which she did very poorly, to the extent she comes off looking like a fool:
She will not go because (from her Tweet) Israel is too oppressive with their demands (which she offered).
To which Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri pointed out Tlaib’s hypocrisy in his own series of Friday morning tweets:
”I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa,” Tlaib said in a letter to Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, according to The Guardian.
“This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.”
On Friday, Israel approved the visit on “humanitarian” grounds.
“Congresswoman Tlaib has sent tonight a letter to Minister Deri in which she committed to accept all the demands of Israel to respect the restrictions imposed on her in the visit, and she also promised not to advance boycotts against Israel during her visit,” Interior Minister Deri said in announcing his approval, according to CNN.
“This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.”
On Friday, Israel approved the visit on “humanitarian” grounds.
“Congresswoman Tlaib has sent tonight a letter to Minister Deri in which she committed to accept all the demands of Israel to respect the restrictions imposed on her in the visit, and she also promised not to advance boycotts against Israel during her visit,” Interior Minister Deri said in announcing his approval, according to CNN.
So, Tlaib CAN go visit her grandmother, and even committed she would not violate Israel’s trust while there... apparently a condition SHE VOLUNTEERED in her request. All is well, right? Nope.
I’m guessing Israel was not expected to grant her request and she would then use it for further propaganda; when they DID approve her visit, she had to scramble to make it into that propaganda opportunity... which she did very poorly, to the extent she comes off looking like a fool:
She will not go because (from her Tweet) Israel is too oppressive with their demands (which she offered).
Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me,” Tlaib wrote. “I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.”
According to Tlaib, part of her congressional victory was for the “Palestinian people,” to give them “hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions” they face living in a Jewish state.
“I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my [grandmother] to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies,” she wrote hours earlier.
According to Tlaib, part of her congressional victory was for the “Palestinian people,” to give them “hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions” they face living in a Jewish state.
“I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my [grandmother] to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies,” she wrote hours earlier.
To which Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri pointed out Tlaib’s hypocrisy in his own series of Friday morning tweets:
”Rep. Tlaib just tweeted that she won’t be coming to Israel,” Deri tweeted. “Just yesterday she sent me a letter, asking to visit her 90-year-old grandmother saying, ‘it might be my last chance to meet her.’
“I approved her request as a gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis, but it was just a provocative request, aimed at bashing the State of Israel,” Deri added. “Apparently her hate for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.”
“I approved her request as a gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis, but it was just a provocative request, aimed at bashing the State of Israel,” Deri added. “Apparently her hate for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.”
