Just wanted to remind everyone of this adorable picture of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, now the first two Muslim women elected to Congress pic.twitter.com/RwJ98PvHsv— Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani (@AdrienneMahsa) November 7, 2018
Joshua Keating, Slate: The Democrats Are Heading for a Clash Over Israel
Before winning a historic election Tuesday night that catapulted her to national attention, Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar had to fend off an allegation of anti-Semitism based on a 2012 tweet in which she accused Israel of having “hypnotized the world” and accused it of “evil doings.” Omar defended the tweet this year by saying, “Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews.”
Omar is one of several candidates who won on Tuesday despite having criticized Israel in terms not usually heard in mainstream U.S. political discourse. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who along with Omar will be one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, lost her endorsement from the liberal “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobbying group J Street in August after it became clear she did not support a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. (She has also promised to work to cut U.S. military aid to Israel.) And New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried the killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli armed forces as a “massacre” in May, then stumbled when pressed to explain her position in a PBS interview, saying she was not an “expert on geopolitics on this issue.”
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WNU Editor: What strikes me about Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar is that she has not even bothered to delete her tweets calling Israel evil (link here). So will there be a problem between Jewish Democrats and Muslim Democrats? The Democrat leadership is saying no, and they are hopeful that they can smooth-over any friction so that Jewish Americans who voted overwhelmingly Democrat on Tuesday and will continue to do so in the future. But my experience among Canadian Arabs who are immigrants is that the prejudices that they were taught in their home country do not go away when they come here. My prediction ..... there is going to be a problem within the Democrat Party on reconciling these two groups. Because after all ..... no one else has been successful in the past few centuries.
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TBH, she never called Israel evil, she made the fair statement that did some bad things. Shooting journalists, nurses and unarmed civilians is evil.
If Israel is anything it's a settler colonial Apartheid state.
So will there be a problem between Jewish Democrats and Muslim Democrats?
There will not. People like Fred will faithfully pull the lever to vote for anyone with a (D) behind their name.
Any cognitive dissonance will be put on the back burner, whenever the 'food carousel' of liberal issues is spun by Democrat leaders to fire up their base.
In the meantime the Muslim/Jewish split will be blames on that wascally wabbit and those wascally Wepublicans and any almost Jewish Democrats will be indoctrinated into the true faith of liberalism.
Everything the Palestinians do is evil.
Like shooting rockets nonstop at civilian targets.
If the Palestinians had not shot rockets there would already be a Palestinian state.
George Bush pressured Sharon. Sharon took all the Jews out of the Gaza strip. The Fake-i-stinians immediately began shooting rockets from northern Gaza Strip.
At that point I was done with the Palestinians.
The Dems elected Ilhan who married her brother to commit immigration fraud, eck! She is a rank anti-Semite at a level Himmler would salute if he lived to this day.
American Jews who continue to this day their support for Dems deserve the opprobrium they have earned.
^^What a load of drivel, devoid of fact...
o During the 400 years leading to World War I, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire -- was owned by the Turks, not by the Arabs living in Palestine.
o There was never a country called Palestine.
o Palestine was never ruled by its own Arab inhabitants.
o Therefore, it is not accurate to say that Palestine was a country, or that it was Arab land.
o And neither the Jews nor the British stole it from the Arabs.
o The original Zionists who came to live in then-Palestine did not come as colonists, nor with the backing of an imperialist or colonialist power. Jews bought the land on which they settled.
Colonialism didn’t bring Britain to Palestine. Britain didn’t seize Palestine from an unoffending native population. It conquered the land not from the Arabs, but from Turkey, which (as noted) had joined Britain’s enemies in the war. The Arabs in Palestine fought for Turkey against Britain. The land was enemy territory.
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I've been to Israel. I saw none of that.
Lots of murders by Palestinians of Israelis though.
First time I saw a sign "Beware of Suspicious Packages" was in Israel.
Thank you Palestinians
Carter and George W Bush put it all out there.
IMO there would have been a Palestinian State by 2015 except that after the Gaza pullout, the F___stinians had to shoot rockets nonstop.
TY F___stinians!
These people worm their way into government then set about undermining their host nation. They create division and conflict. They are not to be trusted.
What Geoff says is true.
Why was the PLO in Lebanon?
Because they got kicked out of Jordan.
What were they kicked out of Jordan?
Because they tried to take over the country. It was called Black September.
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