All she can offer is a melange of half-digested Leftist propaganda and talking points. And that will likely be enough to get her elected.
“Ocasio-Cortez Defends Comments Accusing Israeli Military of Palestinian ‘Massacre,’” by Paul Crookston, Washington Free Beacon, July 16, 2018:
Upstart Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday defended her recent comments describing Israeli military actions at the Israel-Gaza Strip border as a “massacre.”…
“The lens through which I saw this incident [at the Israel-Gaza border], as an activist, as an organizer—60 people were killed in Ferguson, Missouri, 60 people were killed in the South Bronx, unarmed, 60 people were killed in Puerto Rico—I just look at that incident … just as an incident, and to me it would just be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez said the situation in the Middle East is “of course” different from peaceful protests in the the U.S. but did not back down from the equivalency she set up. She described the situation between Israelis and Palestinians as an “increasing crisis of humanitarian condition” and said that is “just where I tend to come from on this issue.”
After Ocasio-Cortez said she “absolutely” believes Israel has a right to exist, “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover asked what she means by the Israeli “occupation.” The candidate said it has to do with settlements that infringe on Palestinians’ housing.
“I think what I meant is, like, the settlements that are increasing in these areas, where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty in access to their housing and homes,” she said.
“I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue,” she added with a laugh. “I am a firm believer in finding a two-state solution on this issue, and I’m happy to sit down with leaders on both of these—for me, I just look at things through a human rights lens, and I may not use the right words. I know this is a very intense issue.”
In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez referred to “the occupation of Palestine,” although no Palestinian state currently exists. She went on to explain that this is an important issue on which she is “willing to learn and evolve.”
“I come from the South Bronx, I come from a Puerto Rican background, and Middle Eastern politics was not exactly what was at my kitchen table every night, but I also recognize that this is an intensely important issue for people in my district, for Americans across the country, and I think what’s at least important to communicate is that I’m willing to listen and that I’m willing to learn and evolve on this issue as I think many Americans are,” she said….
St. Manuel II Palailogos says
She’s just a useful idiot for her Leninist puppet-masters.
Hindu American says
Typical attention-seeking, clueless Millennial whose daddy paid for her liberal arts education. What can one say about this demographic group?
Andy says
More Hard Truth About Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYY11Ro4h54
john Otradovec says
Why does fake news and others give the Cortez women so much free press,.She is just an empty head Communist from a state ruled by the Italian Mafia.
J D S says
Yes!…another uninformed socialist,liberal, leftist that don’t know that the only real Palestinians are the Jews themselves…given to the by God….Those whom are calling themselves Palestinians are just a mish-mash of tent dweller nomads who have occupied this Jewish property.
Anyone, other than the Jewish people, who live in the God given lands of the Jewis should be very thankful and humble to be allowed to live there.
Marty says
This woman is a fool, but typicall of the dhimmicrat party these days.
esther says
when she talks, I hear Linda Sarsourpuss
elee says
How much Muslim funding did she use to get elected? Qatari money? Turkish money? Come on journalists, look into this.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Jay Boo.
Georg says
I don’t think it was Qatari money that got her elected, but an ethnic animus and fixation among her constituents which will be the hateful bedrock of their wretched society.
Wellington says
I doubt she would mind at all if Israel was extinguished.
gravenimage says
Probably not.
6woods says
Of course not. Nobody cares about those nasty JOOS, especially not some brain-dead “activist” ditz. Gawd, she’s an embarrassment to my gender. I actually cringed reading this.
gravenimage says
This creep hardly represents all women.
Richard says
Do you think she even knows where Israel is? She says the Palestinians want to get to their homes and lands. Do you think she realizes those (if they ever existed) are in Israel? Giving this woman power is really dangerous.
Shmoovie says
Ask her to look at the horrific images of the butchered-in-their-bed Fogel family, then explain her “human rights lens”.
Oh, I see she absolutely believes Israel has a right to exist. Maybe just less a few hundred thousand Israelis…
Tom says
Code for “I have no idea what I am talking about, but my feelings tell me, therefore it must be so.”
What an absolute imbecile, yet people voted for her, idiots.
WPM says
She did not grow up in the south Bronx she was born in the Arthur Avenue area of the North Bronx an Italian area still to this day. Her family move to Yorkville Westchester when she was 5 years old ,a upper middle class of mostly “white” area of single family detached homes . {her mother said because the schools were better who knew!}. She is fast and lose with the facts,60 unarmed people killed in “the Bronx” who killed them the police? There have not been 60 fatality police shooting of people armed and unarmed in all New York City if you combine the last 3 year totals. Of coarse she loves Islam all libtards do they love fables ,lies, tale tales and rumors that put down Western civilization .A little brat who has done nothing in her life ,gets elected because she of her skin color, a pretty face, and a story of lies about her childhood. Most killing in the city are done by non-whites to non-whites {with no one talking to the police to help solve the crime},but do not let that facts get in the way to a good story. Like most of the killing of Moslems is done by other Moslems in the middle east with either Israel or America getting the blame.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the background, WPM. I’m not surprised.
Hari Singh says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “girl from the Bronx”. Actually she’s the daughter of an architect from a pricey suburb in Westchester County. Her father, a Pratt Institute grad, was a founder of KOR which stood for Kirschenbaum & Ocasio-Roman Architects. It poses as a minority owned business and gets those perks from the USA government projects bids.
She’s a suburban leftist with a bio consisting of studying International Relations at Boston U, working on immigration issues for Ted Kennedy, serving as the National Hispanic Institute’s Social Entrepreneur in Residence, producing a web series, shuttling between trendy lefty protests and founding what appears to a defunct social justice publishing house.
She won in New York City’s second most Hispanic district, she won because of her Latin name
This isn’t the biography of an urban minority politician, but an upscale lefty hipster drifting after college .
from one activist gig to another, developing the contacts that put her in the right place at the right time.
These are the bios of ten thousand professional lefties who infest the non-profit sector. They’re all angry, self-righteous and interchangeable. The minorities among them hail from wealthy areas.
She’s part of the Democratic socialists of America initially a Social Democratic organization built around the Social Democratic politics of Micheal Harrington, but of late has become a Mecca for Trotskyists trying to build their organizations with radicalized DSA’ers by burrowing from within. This has resulted in the group studying more ultra leftists pandits and moving increasingly to the far left with its new Anti-semitism posing as anti-Zionism.At a recent convention they chanted,”free,free, Palestine from the river to the sea”. As we know, all areas of the West Bank and Gaza controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are Judenfrei Jew Free.
voter s can still vote for the defeated Democrat Joe Crowley on the Working Families party, but he is not running.
Westman says
So, essentially, she is a female Barak Obama from the political line of “community organizers”?
Wellington says
A seconding both to you, Westman, and to Hari Singh.
J D S says
Add me also…Well said!
Indiana Tom says
So, essentially, she is a female Barack Obama from the political line of “community organizers”?
Sounds more plausible than other explanations. Keep that in mind.
Indiana Tom says
All she can offer is a melange of half-digested Leftist propaganda and talking points. And that will likely be enough to get her elected.
I at first thought she was full of Cathoholic Liberation Theology, but I now believe she is full of something else.
john Otradovec says
She is why a lot of New Yorkers move south and west to screw-up the rest of the country.
Richard says
Hari Singh: It sounds like you’re writing about Obama. Horrors!!!
Hari Singh says
She wants to be president, but of where she didn’t say of what country, perhaps the USA maybe Puerto Rico, or even Venezuela.
gravenimage says
+1
Grrrrrrrr......!!! says
Thanks. Good info.
WPM says
+1
You covered it ,up is down, black is white, repeat a lie offend enough people will believe it SJW always keep repeating the lies.
Rarely says
I don’t see her as someone to be demonized. She sounds like someone who, for the moment at least, has not formulated a firm position on either the Israeli-Palestinian issue or the dangers of unfettered Islamist immigration. e.g. She hears of a “peaceful” demonstration in Gaza from the press coverage and 60 unarmed protestors being killed. With those as her only facts her conclusions are rather moderate. She admits that it isn’t quite so simple and that she needs to know more. That’s pretty open-minded for an admitted social activist.
Unfortunately she will likely get that additional info from the hard left if those are the only people who talk to her.
That the far left has become severely polarized to where a person has to buy into their entire agenda or be considered far right wing is a poor reason for more moderate people to do the same thing. I am sure that I disagree with many people on this site over many issues but not the site’s main one. That should be enough to be accepted here.
De-polarization is a cause worth pursuing.
Axolotl says
Rarely.
Fair point. Time will surely tell. In the meantime, we can but hope.
J D S says
WPM Seems like I remember part if that about a lie as being one of Hitler’s quotes.
gravenimage says
I think she has already decided to follow the party line, although she knows nothing about it. Otherwise, she would not have condemned Israel.
Buraq says
“…. and I think what’s at least important to communicate is that I’m willing to listen and that I’m willing to learn and evolve on this issue …..” Ocasio-Cortez
OK, start with the Hamas Charter that spells out the aim of destroying Israel. Then move onto Al Qur’an. Put 2 and 2 together, and then start supporting Israel for no other reason than Israel is on the side of the angels – and the angels are on the side of Israel!
Rarely says
I don’t think the “angels” argument takes us very far since if they’re on Israel’s side Israel doesn’t need any more help.
Beverly says
This woman is an idiot. Anyone who votes for her is more of an idiot.
gravenimage says
Socialist Congressional candidate condemns Israeli “occupation” yet admits she is “not the expert on this issue”
………………..
How common is this sort of stupidity?
6woods says
It’s unfortunately very common. I know waaay too many of this type of person. There’s no point in talking to them. I usually keep my mouth shut, which is not my style!
gravenimage says
I know many of them, as well.
PRCS says
+ many.
PRCS says
“it would just be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores”
Yes, dear, yes it would be; which is why it must prevented.
DHazard says
This woman is a European style socialist and more. She wants medicare for all, free college tuition, a federal jobs GUARANTEE, and of course criminal justice “reform”. She won because a video produced for her campaign went viral and she was running in one of those districts the Democrats have locked down. It is also majority Latino and she played off the deportation fears of her constituents.
This is from the site “bigleaguepolitics” and is in response to a lie riddled interview she gave discussing immigration issues. She made the claim that there were no immigration laws before “about 1999”.
“As reported by several media outlets, Ocasio-Cortez sold the public on a story that she was a “working-class kid” from the Bronx. It turns out, she grew up in wealthy Westchester County, a “ritzy suburb” of New York City. After telling two big lies in her first week in the public eye, it would seem that Ocasio-Cortez already has the Democrat strategy down to a science.”
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/fact-check-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-immigration/
granddaddy says
This woman doesn’t know anything, she’s just a good liar. You ask her a question and she says nothing. This is what people want for a leader?
Donald R Laster Jr says
As usual Socialist, or “Progressives” deal in half-truths and outright lies. She should really learn the history of Israel’s restoration and what Islam’s citizens chose to do and have been doing since before WWII. Then she should learn what Mohammad did to the Jews, Christians, and others who would not bow down and worship his god Hubal, chief god of the Arab Pantheon of gods. And remember the word “allah” means “the god” and is a contraction of the words “al” (the) and “ilah” (god). Hubal is also known as Baal.
somehistory says
She said a whole lot of nothing. She’s “willing to sit down with both sides” and she’s “willing to listen and learn, to evolve.”
In the meantime, she already has an opinion she’s voicing for the public to consume.
She’s right about not being an “expert,” but she is a drip. Drip, drip, drip, like water torture.
Being from the “Bronx,” and of PR background, in her mind, gives her all the cred necessary to decide that Israel is in the wrong and created a “massacre.”
Really nauseating. She imagines herself in the position of a grand negotiator, bringing about a “solution.” In reality, she’s just another “community organizer.” she’s one who gets a group of people riled up in order to make trouble.
Bezelel says
That sums it up, she can do the world a favor and get a job, in San Juan.
Mirit says
“After Ocasio-Cortez said she “absolutely” believes Israel has a right to exist, …” this is the most distressing part of the interview. She has not been asked, but she gives us the right to exist. Thank you for letting us breath!
What is that supposed to mean? Does Britain have a right to exist? Does Denmark have a right to exist? Do Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen have a right to exist?
This kind of talk freaks me out. Excuse me.
We are a sovereign, democratic country for 70 years. We are not going anywhere although the Arabs do not recognize our existence because we are their “shame”. Our existence is their defeat, their “shame”. So they have this pathological way of thinking. But why is an American talking like them? Why?
gravenimage says
She is an ignorant Socialist stooge. Mirit, most Americans are staunch supporters of Israel.
Georg says
She “comes from the South Bronx” where approximately 0 people speak like she does. What a disturbing, hate-filled, farcical ignoramus. Selfless of her not to migrate to her goal manifest in Venezuela, but instead remain here fighting the good fight, dismantling this undesirable mess so many pigmentally-challenged call home.
FYI says
Secular Jews may imagine that the existence of Israel is the work of Zionists.
Religious Jews however,will understand perfectly that the existence of Israel is the work of God:who promised that Israel would be re-established.
It was in 1948.
{Book of Joel 3:God’s plan for Israel’s future explained}
Since it was ALWAYS the case that Israel was going to be re-established with God’s full permission,the land of Israel was set-aside for that purpose:in other words,that Israel should exist as a Jewish State was always going to be the case.
muslims don’t understand that because..
1 “allah” isn’t the God of Moses
{remember allah hates and curses the Jews k2v65/k9:30 which is preposterous because the entire Biblical narrative both in the OT AND NT is.. Jewish.and ALL true prophets of God are..Jewish.
Besides,the Good God of Moses and Elijah cannot possibly have an anti-semitic bias:that would be ludicrous and insane.
But allah has such a bias.
2 Due to an epic theology failure in allah’s perfect book,it appears he doesn’t know where Biblical prophecy comes from:he doesn’t understand the aspect of God through which such prophecies come.
3If allah was the same as the True God of Moses “allah” and his muslims would understand the point of Israel,the role of the Jews,how the Holy Land is greatly blessed etc.
That’s why you have Iranians “praying” to allah{who remember,hates the Jews}for the destruction of God’s Holy Land of Israel.Ridiculous!!Because Israel exists by God’s permission,He is hardly likely to want it to be wiped out,especially since He went to the trouble of allowing it to be re-established in 1948 as a fulfillment of prophecy.
Israel is perfectly entitled to protect its God-given country:the Israeli military have a pretty good moral code too:The Tohar ha-Neshek.
“Purity of arms”
The palestinians don’t have such a moral code:they have “allah” who is perfectly OK with mass-murdering innocents k2:191
Any nation whose border is violated by terrorists is perfectly entitled to protect itself;the fault does not lie with the military who are protecting their own citizens from thugs,terrorists and marauders.
Lenore Thomson says
Thank you for this very balanced helpful reply. Some responses are quite shocking, so venomous.
Chris Malan says
Sometimes I wonder if Mohammed was not right; should they not be kept chained to the sink?
gravenimage says
It is not only women who are dhimmis, as Chris Malan pretends.
Really, if he hates women so much, why doesn’t he just convert to Islam? It seems he’d be right at home there.
Warmac9999 says
She is a modern democrat. Lacks basic knowledge but looks pretty on the outside. Simply a shell, but one who will enter congress along with the likes of mad Maxine Waters.
Giacomo Latta says
Canada has a similar useful idiot for Islam. Her name is Mélanie Joly.
In an interview with CBC over the matter of Islamophobia. Joly, who vies with Justin Trudeau for the title of supreme Liberal airhead, enunciated that Islamophobia is the act of discrimination against Muslims. Yes, dearie, and agoraphobia is the act of discrimination against people who practise the religion of open space. When the interviewer accurately informed her that Islamophobia is fear of Islam not discrimination against Muslims she chose to repeat her lie or miscomprehension. For the entirety of the interview Ms. Joly continued to define Islamophobia in her own unique terms. The valid and factual, on an tymological or any other basis other than airheadedness, point made by the interviewer went in one of her ears and out the other with a sonic boom. He added that a prominent Liberal, MP Irwin Cotler, had stated that very day that Islam must be separated from Muslims in terms of debate. Ms. Joly stated the lie that Cotler had defended Joly’s take on the matter. The interviewer reiterated that her statement was not quite correct. Ms. Joly backed away from her Cotler statement by refusing to debate it. So there is an enlightened Liberal (Cotler) somewhere. Who’d a thunk it!
Hogdude says
South Bronx ought to go ahead and send this wingnut to Congress. She and her “Democratic Socialism” can then be exposed for what it is: Communism with another label. The American public, especially the younger voters, see only another young person espousing a “Bernieism” without knowing what it means. All of us need to know and educate ourselves to this menace to our democracy.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Grrrrrrrr......!!! says
A very awkward interview. I don’t want her or people like her in Congress.
Or muslims in public office for that matter!
More than 90 Muslims, nearly all Democrats, running for public office across the U.S.
https://counterjihadreport.com/2018/04/18/more-than-90-muslims-nearly-all-democrats-running-for-public-office-across-the-u-s/
Number of Muslims running for public office hits record high since 9/11 – report
https://www.rt.com/usa/433551-muslim-candidates-record-congress/
What can we do about it? That is the big question.
infidel says
What a stupid lady.. So typical of the all knowing megalomaniac FEMINAZZIS who are running their own men to the ground by shrill vicious ranting and raving…FEMINISM has become a disease in the West..