Finally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells us that “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. [sic] 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,” she said.
Well, she can start by finding out just who is harming whose “human rights.” Is it the Jews, who are simply trying to defend themselves, as they have had to for Israel’s entire existence, from enemies within and without, including those many “Palestinians” who have been waging a terrorist campaign against Israeli civilians? And is Ocasio-Cortez prepared to sit down with such people as Abu Marzook and Khaled Meshaal, who have been two of the leaders of Hamas, the charter of which is unambiguous in declaring the group’s goal is to destroy Israel completely and establish the state of “Palestine” from the river to the sea? Is she prepared to ask them about that charter? Does she even know that the Hamas Charter exists and why it is important? And would she dare ask Marzook and Meshaal, if she ever got the chance, as she put it, to “sit down” with them, if just maybe they could find it in their hearts to return to the “Palestinian people” some of the billions both have received (i.e., stolen) from the “Palestinian” coffers? And could she ask the same question of Mahmoud Abbas?
By mentioning her Sephardic Jewish background, Ocasio-Cortez may think that this is a way to allow her to continue criticizing Israel. It’s the calculation made by members of J Street, and Jews for Justice for Palestinians, and Jewish Voice for Peace — they’re all the same, in their hostility to Israel, and in their taking cover behind the fact of their Jewishness, which gives them a free pass, or so they think, to make the most absurd anti-Israel charges. That is one possibility.
There is another, more hopeful, possibility. She may have become genuinely interested in Israel, of which she knows, and has admitted she knows, practically nothing. It’s unclear when she learned of her Jewish ancestors, or when that ancestry started to matter to her. Perhaps she is just now beginning to consider, in light of those ancestors, that at the very least she should find out more about that tiny country, Israel, a hardly visible speck on the world map, that is so unfairly maligned, and she might discover that she no longer wishes to be a member of that malignant anti-Israel chorus. Her record is not good: this past August, she enthusiastically endorsed Ilhan Omar, despite Omar’s criticism of Israel. But that was then, and this is now. There is still plenty of time for her to learn some home truths.
The resurrection, after several thousand years, of a Jewish state in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, is a stirring tale. Ocasio-Cortez could begin by studying a few documents — the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, the Hamas Charter, U.N. Resolution 242 — and continue her self-education on Israel right up to the present day. And what does Israel face today? A terrorist group, Hamas, in the south, now entering its ninth month of premeditated mayhem at Israel’s security fence. Another terrorist group, Hezbollah, is in the north, with 140,000 rockets and missiles aimed right at Israel; the group now possesses more firepower than 95% of the world’s armies. And behind both Hamas and Hezbollah, there looms Israel’s greatest current enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its nuclear project (and who knows what the Iranians have been doing to further it, despite their previous promises under the nuclear deal), its vast army and armory, and its unswerving determination to destroy the Zionists.
Perhaps, after having engaged in that sustained study, which will not be easy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will arrive at different conclusions about, and greater sympathy for, Israel as it faces, as it has always had to face, mortal enemies bent on Jihad. And she may finally grasp the basis for Israel’s legal claim, under the Mandate for Palestine, and Article 80 of the U.N Charter, and U.N Resolution 242, to the West Bank. Such a change in Ocasio-Cortez’s views will greatly dismay Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, but greatly hearten others, who will be happy to welcome her to the umma of understanding, and the camp of common sense.
abad says
If Ocasio-Cortez wants to be altruistic and charitable then she should have joined a convent and be the next Mother Theresa, not a member of Congress.
She has proven to the country she is incapable of putting our interests first and foremost.
I also highly doubt she has ever read the Constitution or Declaration of Independence; I also highly doubt she even knows who Thomas Paine is.
Arnold Jackson says
Mother Theresa was actually a horrible person behind the scenes. Many of the good things she was known for were only good in description, not the actual practice.
Dale Netherton says
Exactly. And besides, she was doubtful of the dogma she had promulgated.
mortimer says
Ocasio-Cortez didn’t read the US constitution and she didn’t read the Hamas Charter either. It is a document of EXTREME PREJUDICE, RACISM, INEGALITARIANISM, INTOLERANCE AND SUPREMACISM. It reads in part …
1988 charter
Article 1 describes Hamas as an Islamic Resistance Movement with an ideological programme of Islam.
Article 2 of Hamas’ Charter defines Hamas as a “universal movement” and “one of the branches of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD in Palestine”.
Article 3 the Movement consists of “MUSLIMS who have given their allegiance to Allah”.
Article 8 The Hamas document reiterates the Muslim Brotherhood’s slogan of “Allah is its goal, the Prophet is the model, the Qur’an its constitution, JIHAD ITS PATH, and DEATH for the sake of Allah its most sublime belief.”
Article 13 There is no negotiated settlement possible. JIHAD is the only answer.
Article 11 Palestine is sacred (WAQF) for all Muslims for all time, and it cannot be relinquished by anyone
HAMAS IS PROFOUNDLY RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC
According to Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, “The Hamas credo is not just anti-Israel, but profoundly anti-Semitic with racism at its core. The Hamas Charter reads like a modern-day Mein Kampf.” According to the charter, Jewish people “have only negative traits and are presented as planning to take over the world.” The charter claims that the Jews deserve God’s/Allah’s enmity and wrath because they received the Scriptures but violated its sacred texts, disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew their own prophets. It quotes a saying of Muhammad from a hadith:
The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews.
— Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Udo Walter says
Arabs are Semitic people. So please stop that idiocy calling Arabs anti Semitic. What’s ironic and hilarious about all this is that many white European Jews don’t even have a drop of Semitic blood and are simply converts to Judaism (Ashkenazi for example).. What is wrong with you people ????
gravenimage says
Yeah–we’ve heard this before–that Muslims can’t be antisemitic because they are semitic people themselves. But everyone know that this refers to the hatred of Jews, which Muslims, Arab or otherwise, practice in abundance.
And the claim that Ashkenazi Jews are not really Jewish is both false and often used to claim that Israel is not a Jewish state and hence–somehow–deserves to be destroyed by savage Muslims. Try again…
Raymond Hietapakka says
..Alexandria O-crazy-o Cortez..
J D S says
Not acceptable as a number or congresswoman
J D S says
Oops! Nun. NOT NUMBER
Kilauea says
She wants to sit down and talk to the leaders on both sides? This mentally challenged doofus has no idea what she is talking about, but thinks she has the gravitas to bring these two mortal enemies to a peaceful solution. Hubris doesn’t begin to describe her.
Garfield says
She sure likes her $3000 suits tho…..
Tony46 says
–Alexia, Alexia, whattime is it??☺☺
Bodega says
I find her so offensive as a woman and then as a member of Congress I wish there was a rule or law making it mandatory for all aspiring members of Congress to be given a really meaningful civics and governmental law exam prior to even running for office. If anyone fails, the must not be allowed to be on any ticket until they learn some median amount of what our republic and democratic country is all about.
This woman went to college? God forbid! She is another point of shame in that category. Is Soros backing her because she is a pretty face and he never sees one? Are her constituents as mentally slow and as ignorant as she seems to be? Does she have a partner? Same sex? Probably so as she never alludes to that person and I have seen tidbits making me think there is a significant person in her life. Maybe that person is ashamed of her, too?
Basically she is a laughing stock.
WPM says
She went from being a bartender her only job to being elected to congress .She grew up in a rich suburb of NYC Westchester NY she claimed she grew up in the South Bronx when running for congress in a heavily Hispanic, foreign born populated district representing part of Queens and the Bronx.. She is as phony as a three dollar bill and as stupid as a box of rocks .Now she claims she is part Jewish ,next month she will claim she is part Chinese another useful idiot on Soro,s payroll.
Bodega says
P.S I know any number of Jews and have a Jewish father (Sephardic) and my maternal line is Ashkenazi. I have never heard or seen an adult Jew as truly ignorant as OcasioCortez. I think she is like “I am colored” as one of more famous Congresswomen has said.
mortimer says
CIVIL RIGHTS? For whom exactly? The Pallies say NO JEWS will be allowed in their future state, just as there are no Jews allowed in Jordan and Soddy Barbaria.
Muslims believe ‘IT ISN’T BIGOTRY when WE DO IT”.
Elizabeth Thorne says
Still thinking of fruit cake.