Ilhan Omar often blames America and Israel for the world’s problems. In early May, Omar denounced US sanctions against Venezuela intended to force out its socialist dictator after she was asked about the problems in the country.
“People like Elliott Abrams, neocons and warmongers, you know, for so long pushed for policies that are now — we can see, not only in Central America, but in many parts of the world, the kind of devastations that they’ve [not] seen for decades,” Omar said on Democracy Now. “Many of the sanctions we impose ultimately lead to devastations — and we are seeing it now in Venezuela.”
Just as in the case of her tweet about “Black Hawk Down,” Omar makes America out to be the bad guy, and ignores the greater context. In this case, she turns a blind eye to the repression and impoverishment that has been brought about by the corruption of Maduro’s regime and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
Furthermore, Omar also blamed Israel after Hamas and PIJ launched 700 rockets toward Israeli cities last week. Omar tweeted….
“How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends? The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace,”
Comment:
“How many more protesters must be shot…”
The people Omar calls “protesters” are not mere “protesters” at all; “protesters” do not throw Molotov cocktails and other explosives including grenades, or even, from time time, fire guns. Ordinary ‘protesters” do not throw into the air incendiary kites, as these people do. Organized and directed by Hamas, those who have taken part over more than a year in the so-called Great March of Return are attempting to breach Israel’s security fence, in the hope of then attacking Israeli soldiers and civilians.These are not “peaceful protesters” as Omar would have you believe.
Israel tries every non-lethal way it can to stop them, using tear gas and rubber bullets. Only when the marchers come very close to, or are just at, the security fence, attempting to cut through the barbed wire, throwing Molotov cocktails and other explosives, including grenades, or sending incendiary kites aloft to set fire to Israeli farmland (thousands of acres have been destroyed that way) do the Israelis use live fire. They almost always aim for the lower legs. Only in the most extreme and threatening of cases do they shoot to kill. Of course there would not have been a single Arab wounded or killed had Hamas not chosen to organize these attempts to breach Israeli security. And Israel has a right and a duty to defend itself; that is all Israel is doing.
“How many rockets must be fired…”
Omar appears to have forgotten it is not Israel that has been firing rockets, but Hamas. It is Hamas that has fired 690 rockets at Israeli cities and towns. That there was not enormous civilian loss of life in Israel is only because so many of those Hamas rockets either landed harmlessly on uninhabited land, or were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense. Omar needs to keep straight, too, who started the latest flare-up in Gaza: it was Islamic Jihad, firing on and wounding Israeli soldiers, that began the conflict. Israel retaliated, then Hamas massively escalated the conflict by firing several hundred rockets at Israel. Israel again retaliated, Hamas then fired hundreds more. In the end Hamas fired 690 rockets, while Israel destroyed 350 Hamas sites in Gaza. At any point Hamas could have stopped the fighting simply by ceasing to fire those rockets at Israel.
“[How many] little kids must be killed”
Indeed. Omar should be asking: Why does Hamas deliberately put children (“little kids”) in the front of the marchers, actually hoping they will be injured or killed, in order to stoke anti-Israel propaganda? The only reason to include children is the cruel calculation that some will be wounded or even killed, providing Hamas with a great propaganda victory. Israel makes enormous efforts not to harm children, but the problems with visibility — smoke from burning tires and the tear gas — and the general chaos of thousands of people, running here and there, flinging their explosives toward the Israeli soldiers, makes it impossible to completely avoid wounding children.
“The status quo of occupation must be ended [in Gaza]..”
What can Ilhan Omar be thinking? There is no “occupation” of Gaza. There are no Israelis occupying any part of the Gaza Strip. The 9,000 Israelis who had been living in settlements in Gaza had all been removed by August 16, 2005. Since then Gaza has been ruled, first by the Palestine Authority, and then by Hamas. The Israelis handed over intact 3,000 greenhouses to the Palestinians, in the hopes that they would continue, and expand, the business Israelis had started. Instead, Palestinians vandalized and destroyed the greenhouses. Since coming to power in Gaza, Hamas has made a choice to invest hundreds of millions in weaponry of all kinds; in building its weapons warehouses, attack tunnels, offices, cyberattack headquarters. The money all of this cost could have been spent on bettering the lives of the Gazan Arabs but Hamas chose not to do so. Ilhan Omar wants you to think Israel’s “occupation” that ended 14 years ago is to blame.
The wretched “status quo” in Gaza has nothing to do with a non-existent “occupation” but with the choices made by Hamas leaders. They prefer spending money on war-making than on building the civilian economy. Furthermore, the catastrophic levels of corruption have impeded economic growth. During the last decade more than $5 billion in aid money has been siphoned off by just two Hamas leaders, Moussa Abu Marzook and Khaled Meshaal, for themselves. There are estimated to be another 600 Hamas millionaires in Gaza. Does Ilhan Omar think this corruption is Israel’s fault?
“Omar also retweeted a post by journalist Mehdi Hassan blaming Israel for a missile strike that killed a pregnant woman and child in Gaza. That retweet remained active — and Omar was silent — following the revelation that a PIJ rocket was responsible for the deaths, not an Israeli airstrike as pro-Hamas propaganda claimed.”
The revelation came directly in a communication by Islamic Jihad, confimring what Hamas had posted for its members on-line (and then quickly then down for fear the Israelis might see it). Here is the story:
“TPS (Jewish News Agency) has learned that the [Palestinian” baby was killed when Islamic Jihad terrorists launched a rocket towards Israel from within a populated area in the east of Gaza City, but the rocket misfired and landed short, exploding in a nearby house and killing the baby.“The baby’s mother was not killed, but she did have a miscarriage.“Mahmoud H., a local resident, told TPS about a massive pit he saw inside the house after the rocket’s explosion.“The rocket was locally produced and may have malfunctioned or exploded prematurely because of the low-grade explosives.“The Hamas-controlled Gazan Ministry of Health initially announced that Saba’s mother was killed, but then claimed that another woman named Falastin Abu ‘Arar was killed in the explosion. She may be Saba’s aunt.“A source in Gaza told TPS that Islamic Jihad representatives met with the Abu ‘Arar family on Sunday morning and offered them full compensation and a registry of the baby as a “Shahid” entitled to long-term support in exchange for their silence.“Arab journalists in Gaza are aware of the facts, but have refrained from reporting on them due to the sensitivity of the situation.“TPS was successful in capturing Hamas’ report on the Islamic Jihad’s culpability.“Hamas’ al-Risala News published a news item on the issue in its Telegram account on Sunday afternoon, but removed it shortly after. The item then appeared on another Hamas-lined Telegram channel and quickly disappeared.
“The item says: “A leak from the heroes of the [Islamic Jihad’s] Sarayat al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigades) on the circumstances of the death of the baby Saba Abu ‘Arar indicates that a rocket of the resistance exploded inside the family’s home due to a technical failure, and prematurely exploded. There is a claim that the technical failure was caused by low-grade explosives in the rocket.”“There is no doubt that the baby’s death has nothing to do with the enemy’s (Israel’s) planes,” the report added.“The IDF stated Sunday afternoon that “Palestinian weapons caused the tragic death of a mother in Gaza and her baby.”
Yet more than a week has gone by since Hamas reported that the death of the pregnant woman and of the baby had nothing to do with Israel, but were the result of a technical failure leading to the premature explosion of an Islamic Jihad rocket. Ilhan Omar certainly knows of this admission by IJ reported by Hamas, but has left up her retweeting of a post by Mehdi Hassan blaming Israel for the killing of the baby and her mother. She should not only have removed that retweet, but also straightforwardly admitted that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have told their own members the truth: a malfunctioning IJ rocket, not Israel, was responsible. Being Ilhan Omar means never having to apologize or explain. She has repeatedly stated falsehoods, refused to retract them, and then ridden out the political storm. When she insisted that CAIR was formed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, as a response to fears of “islamophobia,’ and then learned that CAIR was actually formed in 1994, she never admitted, much less apologized for, her gross error. Her teflon is remarkable.
Omar should be asked the following by some intrepid reporter:
1. Why do you describe Gaza as under “occupation” when Israelis had been pulled out by August 16, 2005?
2. Why did the Palestinians in Gaza destroy the $14 million dollars worth of greenhouses that Israel had turned over to them at that time, hoping that the residents of Gaza would take over the turnkey operations and thrive?
3. When you speak of “little kids” being endangered, who is doing the endangering? It is a fact that Hamas has put children toward the front of its weekly Great March of Return, hoping that they will be wounded or killed, so that Hamas will win a propaganda victory. Do you think it is right for Hamas to include these “little kids” in these marches, given the violence the marchers deliberately engender?
4. Do you think the condition of the people of Gaza has been at all improved by the vast sums spent on the manufacture, storage, and use, of very expensive weapons, on attack tunnels, and on cyberwarfare? Couldn’t those hundreds of millions of dollars be spent on building up the economy, so as to relieve the financial misery of Gazans, who must endure high levels of unemployment and a pitiful infrastructure? How many water purification plants, or irrigation projects, might have been built with the money spent on the 690 rockets that were just fired at Israel by Hamas?
5. Are you aware of the enormous corruption at the highest levels of Palestinian leadership, and especially of Hamas? Did you know that two of its leaders, Moussa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Meshaal, each has a fortune of $2.5 billion? What could have been done with that $5 billion to improve the lot of the people of Gaza? Do you care about real people in Gaza, or only about scoring points against Israel? And there is much more corruption below that top level — there are now 600 Hamas millionaires in Gaza. And in the PA there’s the same kind of corruption,. Do you know about the $400 million that Mahmoud Abbas and his two sons have acquired as their business empire? Or the millions his cronies in Ramallah have been taking as their share? And all of this is money taken from the foreign aid meant to improve the lot of the people. Why have you, Ilhan Omar, never spoken out, not once, about the corruption among the Palestinian leaders? Don’t you care?
Questions for study and discussion, if only Ilhan Omar would dare to study, would dare to discuss. She will, alas, do neither.
But let’s at least scratch off as much of that teflon as we can.
Herbert Lubitz says
Is Islam a good Idea in America? Politicians are Traitors to America and trying to overthrow the government to be run by Democrats and the United Nations which are mostly Moslim Nations.
Let’s allow Islam in America, now there is a great Idea, except they are not coming here to assimilate, but to Dominate. Ask any Moslim this question…..Do Moslims come here to assimilate or Dominate like the Quran and Muhammad states? They also have full permission to Lie to the Infidels, to further Islams advance in other countries. They have a command from their false god Allah that Moslims must DOMINATE THE WORLD, much like the Elite and the New World Order, which by the way will be destroyed when Islam is Dominant, I bet the Democrats have not thought about what a Politicians job will be when Islam is the rule of law. There can not be two governments in the same country and Islam will never allow any Infidel to be part of their Sharia Laws except to be a Dhimmi and pay a hefty tax, and all your property, women, and children will be under a Moslims slave master rule. The Moslims even said that they reproduce many children in America to take over our society, as we Americans are losing our birthrights to low births, and can’t compete with Islams fast and furious baby making to take over within 20 years when their numbers are more than half of our populations. Their children that they are having now will be of military age of 15 and over and being brainwashed by their Mosques to kill Jews and Infidels and Christians. Don’t believe any work they are telling you about being a peaceful people, they are only peaceful to another Moslim and they are even killing some of them for not staying in Islam.
Well that will be a great idea, when Sharia law comes to America anywhere in America, and what about all those no-go zones in America? What do you think they will do to us Infidels if we set foot in their No-Go zones? You may not come out alive. They are also kidnapping children into their No-Go zones to make more babies for our stock, while we are aborting millions a year. that would also give anyone the same rights as a Moslim and give their wives a good beating for not cleaning the home, or killing their kids because they stole money from their father, or how about having four wives, or raping any woman they please even if they are married. How about keeping slaves? we all could use some free labor. Yeah that would be a great Idea, but the Democrats better look into what the Constitution says about all being equal in rights. And if Islam is given rights that the Constitution does not have now, than we ALL can have those same rights, and then there will be no rights. There is no human rights either in Islam. How about all those gay and Trans, do you think they will be here when the Moslims take over? We have lots of tall buildings to throw the gays over, they are just pesky gays that want the Moslims in, and don’t realize that the Moslims have Muhammad’s permission to kill anyone who does not believe in Allah and any who have another belief system even if they don’t have any system will be killed, the Moslims are all confused by childhood brainwashing by Muhammad. Did all these protesters that stand up for the Democrats and Socialism think that the Moslims will be their friends because we allowed them into America and will love us? The Moslims take any Mercy and forgiveness as a sign of weakness and should be subjugated to Islam. The Moslims can not take any Infidels or Kufir as a friend or helper which means your are either a slave or dead. Oh yeah I forgot a Message to these Politicians and Democrats that think Islam and Sharia Laws are a great idea, they should think about what submission to Islam really means to Politicians…….There are no Politicians in their Islam and whatever an Imam says that the Sharia Laws mean, is what the Imam says it is will be for the punishment. That will mean that ALL Politicians will submit to Islams power and subjugation, convert and be a Dhimmi, or be one of the headless horseman. Politicians better get off their power trip and stop trying to take America by force, because the PEOPLE will not take much of this much longer and will have to remove Congress by force if Necessary, this is not a threat of overthrowing the Government, is is a fact that Congress has not done anything for America for the Past 30 years and needs to be removed completely and restored to the Constitutional Laws that were set forth in 1776. We Americans will serve and protect the Constitution and if we take out Congress then we can restore law and order, and are serving and protecting the Constitution.
May God save us from Satan’s last stand and keep our Lords name in our life.
In Jesus’s name we pray, AMEN and Amen.-
Muslim2019 says
It’s amazing that you are a Christian yet have so much hate for Islam and Muslims in your heart. So many untruths you wrote about Islam. If you are a white Christian it’s even worse, America belongs to the Native Amerindian people but through genocide and enslavement is how America has become the way she is. It was built on genocide and enslavement of millions of Africans.
gravenimage says
Not wanting to be enslaved by Muslims and seeing them murder Jews is “hate”?
And this about Native Americans from “Muslim2019” is absurd–Muslims hate Native Americans as much as they do every other Infidel.
Will says
Ilhan Omar is the personification of what happens when first cousins mate ….. Offspring of first cousins who ‘marries’ her brother~!?! Nothing could be finer …..
Abraham says
Moslum 2019
There is not one falsehood in this article and you clearly know that. Muslim are the lowest class of people who have no inventions, no ideas and no Morality because you have been fooled by Satanic Verses, the Koran. It is a book of evil deeds, suppression of all human rights, raping and murdering family members and underage sex with millions of pedophiles in your so called religion.
Your religion does absolutely nothing for the people of Muslim countries. The elite live the lives of the world elite while their population live in filthy conditions.
When I think of Arab Moslims I think of lack of human decency and civility. Your prophet committed so many horrific war crimes, lied, cheated and was only followed by Jihadists for what they would get out of taking over a town, murdering all men and boys with pubic hair, turned women and children into slaves and also propheted by gain the conquered’s belongings. Basically, they were nothing more than murders and thieves, nothing more.
It disgusts me to think of your idiotic thinking. Believe me, Christians will fight back along with many other Americans who will destroy Islam in the US before it becomes a power in the US. We will fight for our constitution and our military takes an oath to uphold the constitution which is in direct conflict with Sharia and all its evil direction.
Keep praying to Satan and you too will end up in a fiery afterlife. We are all God’s children start treating other in that way or never gain a single ounce of respect.
BVC says
Once again, Mr. Fitzgerald, beautifully written. And once again i wish that you were there to advocate for the truth. As for the interview you suggest, is there any possibility YOU could be the reporter? You are definately tge learned man for the job! Mr. Spencer should be commended for his pick of journalists for this site. I truly thank you for the depth of research you do in your articles.
jewdog says
Rational counter-arguments are useful for the readers, but let’s have no illusions of them convincing this wooden post of anything.
mortimer says
Ilhan Omar illustrates much of what is wrong with Islam … the inability of Muslims to use linear, critical thought. Discussing anything with a Muslim seems like Alice discussing with the solipsistic Caterpillar or the opportunistic Red Queen in the book ‘The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland’.
Ilhan Omar lives in such an Islamic Fantasyland where directions change, things get suddenly bigger or smaller and nothing appears to be with it is.
Ilhan Omar lives in a world of PERMANENT MENTAL ILLNESS surrounded by people who think that delusion is normative, rather than an aberration.
abad says
In that case, Ilhan Omar is much better off living in Somalia rather than the United States.
Malek al Kuffar says
Somebody should do something about Ilhan Omar.
nabi ZK (pbum) says
Hello. Please do not make threats or suggestions of threats against the congressthing. She is doing a great job for Trump. We should all want her to continue. I wish her health, and then imprisonment followed by deportation. But only after Nov. 2020.
Abraham says
I do believe Trump is benefiting from putting 2 lunatic Moslims in Congress and the communist NY idiot that seems to have severe mental impairment.
gravenimage says
Just expose her viciousness and vote her out of office next election.
somehistory says
satan is her sugar-daddy; all of her *power* and *position* come straight from that demon.
Her “father” is the evil one who told the first lie and countless others since. She is just copying him in order to further his rule over humankind.
“There is no peace, my God has said, for the wicked one (Isaiah 57:21; Jeremiah 614).”
She will never know “peace” nor real security as she woks for God’s enemy, the original “wicked one.” That old demon is headed for complete destruction.
Wellington says
Good article as usual by Hugh Fitzgerald.
Ilhan Omar is a bad human being. She doesn’t understand America. She doesn’t understand the West. She doesn’t understand freedom. Actually, she hates these three. I believe Islam has a great deal to do with Ilhan Omar being who she is—indeed, only the ignorant or the malevolent would deny this.
Robert_k says
Ilhan Omar is regarded as one of the best of the Somalis let in to the United States. Imagine what the worst are like.
nabi ZK (pbum) says
Those would be the kids chasing people with hammers last week. Not nice at all.
abad says
Why let Somalis into the United States at all?
Most of them are Moslem, are more than out of place in our country – I am afraid there is just no reason for them to leave Somalia. None.
gravenimage says
I’d just make an exception for brave ex-Muslim Anti-Jihadist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
E T says
Maybe Omar’s husband/brother beat her for not being a good, little wife. Too many punches to the head does have a negative outcome on ones thinking. CAIR does not care who represents them as long as they get their propaganda spread.
ISNA South Central Conference, SAN Antonio, Texas, 2008, Sarwat Husain, National board member of CAIR said: “It is very important, media in the U.S. is very gullible. OK? And we will see if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something to say, they’ll come running to you and take advantage of that”.
Kay says
Interesting quote.
I wonder why no journalists are asking the questions Mr. Fitsgerald does.
Or why there was no coverage of her meeting with Erdogan.
And what will happen with the fact of her filing a joint tax return with her husband/boyfriend when she was not yet divorced from the man in UK.
Seems like there’s plenty to keep journalists busy.
Bruce Cuttler says
After watching all the coverage of D day and all the pictures of veterans cemetery’s I see lots of crosses and several stars of David on the graves. Where are the crescents. If Islam has always been part of our country as president Obama stated then where are the Muslim graves. Probably in the Nazi cemetery’s.
Ren says
Who cares. Ilhan Omar is a muslim moron.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, she is also a US Congresswoman using her bully pulpit for all it is worth. She and Rashida Tlaib are both very dangerous.
gravenimage says
The endless prevarications of Ilhan Omar
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I’m glad more people are exposing her viciousness.
Jake Jacobs says
She’s decided for which side she’s rooting. Which broaches the question: What is she and the scores of thousands like her, doing HERE?
One civilization reigns here. While we outnumber them, I want them bum-rushed out.
Ravi says
If there is a ever museum curated for Cretins, Ilhan Omar will be the star artifact. I always wondered what would she have been had she remained in Somalia? My first guess is the poster child for another ”Live Aid”.
OLD GUY says
Or she might have worn a bomb vest.
MJP says
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are when it comes to Muslims & there ultimate goal for world Domination unless they lose a family member or their child (Male or Female) gets raped by these Barbaric creatures. they think it is wrong to not want to throw out the Constitution for Sharia Law look at how things are going with only 2 of these Satanic Cultist in office in 2020 5 more are planning on running for House & Senate seats the Scary thing is due to Stupidity of voters they will probably get elected.
Clayton Norcroft says
Ilhan Omar, and many others, refers to the situation in Gaza as an “occupation” because Israel’s blockade of the region places it, virtually, under Israel’s control. I have been told that the blockade makes Israel, by legal definition, the occupier of the Gaza Strip. That sounds absurd to me, but, I have no answer because I don’t know enough about international law.
Is Israel by legal definition the occupier of Gaza because they are blockading it?
gravenimage says
No. Israel pulled out and gave Gaza to the Muslims in 2005 hoping for peace. I knew at the time it was a vain hope.
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
The investigation(s) continue.. This is only ‘Strike One’ Ilhan..
Prabh says
Mr. Robert Spencer I am very thankful and relieved you are back at this most valuable website.
One bit of info regular people might not be aware of is this: it seems to me MohaMADanism is spreading to the “Red indian” aka firstnations aka supposed first inhabitants indigenous to the northernmost regions of The Americas.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Mr. Hugh Fitzgerald: I enjoy reading your articles very much as you provide valuable background info that frankly cannot be found anywhere else.
About the infamous Anjem Andy Chaudrey, I always reckoned him to be an agent provocateur of British intelligence. But one Jihad watcher states that Andy/anjem is in fact a pious Muslim.
Now if he Andy/anjem is pious I’d hate to come across a fanatic Musalmann.
The worst nightmare come true to life is demographics as it is an axiomatic truth that demographics is the mother of all politics.
Religion without Freedom/liberty creates slavery. So to make sure our future generations are free, it is our sacred duty to expose Islam for what it is: a religion of the slave, for the slave and by the slave.
Immense genetic loss is fruit of Islam. Anthropology holds key to dissolving Islam.