The whole thing was a setup from the start. Only the terminally naive will be surprised.
“Don’t Be Fooled, Omar and Tlaib Maliciously Set Up Israel Ban,” by Katie Pavlich, Townhall, August 16, 2019:
On July 17, 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a pro-BDS movement resolution on Capitol Hill. Her colleague, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, co-sponsored the resolution and compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to how the Nazis treated European Jews during World War II. She made the horrific and false accusation during a speech on the House floor.
One day later, Omar and Tlaib announced they were planning a trip to Israel. Coincidence? Hardly.
The order and timing of events here is crucial and proves their goading of Israeli officials was a set up from the beginning.
Omar and Tlaib know Israel has longstanding law and policy barring supporters of the BDS movement from entering the country. It is regularly deployed against BDS activists.
By introducing a pro-BDS resolution in Congress and then a day later announcing a planned trip to Israel, they knew their chances of getting rejected by the Israeli government were high, if not guaranteed.
This enabled them to put Israel in a difficult position with two choices: 1. Violate the law by giving them special treatment and then allowing them to actively campaign against the country’s existence and interests within its own borders 2. Reject them and be accused of bigotry and racism, defacto “proving” allegations from Omar and Tlaib about bigotry, apartheid and unequal treatment. In other words, bad PR. This lose-lose scenario was purposely provided in bad faith.
There are other indicators Omar’s and Tlaib’s announced trip to Israel was carefully calculated.
Just last week a congressional delegation of 72 lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, made an official trip to Israel. They met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and leaders of the Palestinian Authority. Omar and Tlaib refused to go. Instead, they developed their own itinerary and titled it “U.S. Congressional Delegation to Palestine.” Omar and Tlaib don’t believe Israel has a right to exist, so much so they couldn’t bear writing down the country’s name….
jayell says
A regular pair of toxic prima donnas at the vanguard of global jihad, flaunting their false victim-status to imprint their hideous identity on the American consciousness. Maybe they’re starting to get a bit desperate now the President Trump has made it clear that he’s got their number and looks like calling their bluff.
mortimer says
Agree … prima donnas. They are fraudsters and charlatans. When will the Dems give these agents provocateurs the BOOT ?
mortimer says
Islamic Victimology 101 and Islamic Melodrama 101 … we are supposed to feel pity for these crafty, self-made victims and con artists.
Cry me a river … you swindlers.
somehistory says
The author of the article is absolutely correct. Evil is all these two ugly creatures can conjure up in their small minds devoted to the will and worship of satan and his beast.
GreekEmpress says
Somehistory!
So good to see a post from you! Hope things are well with you! You and Tricia have a lot of people on JW that were thinking about you both and wishing you the best!
somehistory says
GreekEmpress
Thank you very much, and to all who are included in your comment. I am seeing double and only able to use my eyes for limited amounts of time each day. I just had to try to comment on these threads. My eye trouble is not yet over, but am hoping and praying to be fully able soon to read and comment as before. I am encouraged by your comment.
gravenimage says
*So* glad to see you back, Somehistory. I hope the operation was a success.
Your comments have been missed here.
libertyORdeath says
I wish you a speedy recovery!
Issa Abdille says
They have being put that positions bcz they are qualified and now they are doing Thea job so have less worry.
Annmarie Shannon says
They are doing their jobs about as well as you spell, make a cogent point.
Blaine of Baghdad says
yup… that issa abdille speaks like ilhan sounds…retarded.
unbeliever1 says
Like Blaine of Baghdad said,” she speaks like Ilhan.” Ilhan reads hear questions -in congressional hearings- off a prepared list and she sounds like a fifth grader.
Here is a scoop on that planned trip to Israel:
Miftah group that planned Tlaib-Omar Israel trip once referred to suicide bombing as sacrifice ‘for the cause’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/miftah-group-tlaib-omar-israel-suicide-bombing-sacrifice-for-the-cause
Angemon says
“They have being put that positions bcz they are qualified ”
Really? All I keep hearing about them is how they’re the women and muslim. That,a s afar as I know, only makes you qualified to be a muslim woman, not a member of government.
gravenimage says
Great replies to the witless and semi-literate Issa Abdille.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, agree with your comments.
And Like Greek Empress, I am *so* glad to see you posting! I had asked about you in the last several days here, if anyone had seen you.
I hope the surgery was successful, and hope you will be able to comment here more in the near future. You have been missed here. ♥
mortimer says
Robert Spencer writes: “The whole thing was a setup from the start. Only the terminally naïve will be surprised.”
Superb phrases. ‘TERMINALLY NAIVE’ … in other words the VIRTUE-SIGNALLING POLLYANNAS who wouldn’t recognize JIHAD even after the bomb took off their leg and after the jihadists shout ALLAHU AKBAR fourteen or twenty times .
mortimer says
Israel is saying in effect: ‘ WE WILL NOT REWARD THE BAD BEHAVIOR OF THE CONGRESSWOMEN.’
mortimer says
The Democrats are saying by their silence that they approve of anti-Semitism.
The Dems have become the party of anti-SEMITES.
Kay says
The Dems are worse than silent. Their even thinking about sanctioning the ambassadors who delivered the decision to not allow the provocative trip is absolutely disgusting. Any who have criticized Israel in the wake of this provocation are shameful.
And this is the first I heard about the pair of Congressmen refusing to go to Israel with the congressional group. Everyone, Dem or otherwise, should be looking at the pair with disdain.
Angemon says
Nasty pieces of work, aren’t they?…
gravenimage says
Yes indeed…
Issac says
You got that right
Anthony says
Personally I don’t have a personal problem with either candidate, whether for religion or personal but my problem is, “when do they stop blaming Israel for the choices the Palestinians make” I’ve seen enough to realize that if my neighbour keeps making noise and playing loud music…… I will do something about it. Likewise Israel has the God given right to defend their Homeland from any threat. And last time I checked in World War 2, the Jews were not trying to kill the Germans…. They were set up upon and gassed for nothing other than who they were. So on that, both women are wrong
libertyORdeath says
I don’t have a personal problem with them either. My problem with them lies in their agenda and the deceit they use to push it.
paul 316 says
I laugh at Tlaib as she calls for a boycott of Bill Maher’s show on HBO because he denounced the BDS movement as a ” bullshit purity test by people who want to appear woke, but actually slept through history class”. He went on to say a few more accurate statements about the movement and Tlaib is having a fit. Finally someone on the left is calling out “The Squad” for the filth that they are. Will this continue? I can only hope. Maybe I should start watching Bill. paul 316
gravenimage says
Good for Bill Maher! He is pretty solidly anti-Jihad in general–great to see this especially on the left.
Georg says
“Just last week a congressional delegation of 72 lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, made an official trip to Israel…Omar and Tlaib refused to go.”
Interesting. One might get the impression they consider themselves somehow distinct from members of U.S. Congress. Big mystery.
gravenimage says
Not only that–I’m sure the itinerary was pretty civilized, and this pair would be able to pull less bs with their sane (or at least fairly sane) fellow Congress people watching.
Georg says
Of course. Their agenda is one which is not consistent with the best interests of the U.S. or Israel. Not that this is news to anyone here. The entire scam has laid bare their allegiance to the ummah and mission against the West. The precedent of their tenure ought to make quite an impression upon Americans; especially with regard to immigration being an issue of national security.
KWJ says
These comparisons of how Nazis treated the Jews are ridiculous. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others making that comparison regarding the border detention centers is obscene. Sure, Americans are going into Honduras and forcibly taking people from their homes, putting them in labor camps where many literally were worked to death, exposed to typhus, had their teeth pulled, sometimes shot for the heck of it, starving, buried in mass graves, locked in not being able to go anywhere, gassed, experimented on, and so on.
Sure, there are several concentration camps in Israel where captured Palestinians are laboring and dying every day. ~rolls eyes~ Then someone will say but the Palestinian Territories are like one big concentration camp. Pakestinians in Gaza suffer more with the Hamas leadership. I see Palestinians go about their lives at cafes, dancing, music bands, etc…hardly like Jews in Nazi Germany.
Such faulty comparisons are for the historically ignorant who are prone to repugnant propaganda.
Tlaib and Omar don’t seem to care much about women’s rights in Gaza either. Hard to believe they’re being paid a $174,000 Congressional salary to infiltrate our government. Kind of like those Pakistani brother Rep Wasserman, et al hired only for them to infiltrate the computer system.
Who are Congress members so afraid of that they don’t toss out these liabilities?
gravenimage says
+1
Kay says
+1
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib set up their Israel trip so as to maximize likelihood that they’d be banned
………………….
If they couldn’t foment Jihad in Israel, then they wanted to smear her for not allowing them to do so. So cynical.
Dennis Maze says
What I would really like to know is ” who voted these idiots into office ” ?
Kay says
Yes, and why Congress is bowing to them instead of putting them in their place
(e.g. off committee; e.g. making public their refusal to join the group trip).
Lu says
Who? Their constituency in their respective district. People who were allowed to the US on a false pretense of being refugees, asylees, chain family immigration etc. etc. Fifth Column in its purest and most dangerous form.
They will be most likely elected again by the same Fifth Column. Enemy is simply here, in the homeland of the Free.
There’s no solution to this. America accepted the people voting for these two “idiots” and it will remain so. Small correction – they are not idiots.
They are enemy within.
gravenimage says
Muslims and clueless “politically correct” Infidels. I have–ludicrously–seen Omar and Tlaib described as “progressive”.
SANDRA BORR says
Knowing that Omar + Trashida had no intention of being fair or unbiased, I want to know:
EXACTLY WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING THEM APPROVAL FOR THIS “CONGRESSIONAL” JUNKET?
SANDRA BO says
I suspected that the script was written before they even set foot on a plane in the US. Omar confirmed my suspicion by posting continuous tweets of “what they would have witnessed if they had been allowed to “visit.” How could they go to “fact find” if they already knew what they would find?
Of course her discourse was loaded with lies and many people confronted her, but facts and truth mean nothing to these people and their followers.
Kerry Wade says
It looks like they orchestrated the whole thing to garner publicity for themselves, be in the spotlight and continue their verbal diarrhea
J D S says
Of course they sat this up…as I’ve said before they must keep themselves in the news…just to advance their agenda.
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
This is ‘Political Trash’ on the attack of everything within their reach…
Michael says
These two do seem like the “enemy within”. Within the U.S and within Israel if given
a chance. But they are also a potential asset for Trump in 2020. The Democrats are reluctant to do anything about them. So the Dems can justifiably be painted as antisemitic, anti American and socialist. Three major sins in any US political Party
Zinda says
I think something is really wrong with USA first we say our pledge one nation under one God and we as American can forget and then allow these two woman to allow in Government service after knowing that there believes are different and this two say Israel shouldn’t exist. Wow I think it is time for all Americans to stand as one and stand with the President. After all our kids are fighting the Muslim world full of terrorists so please support our President and our Military. These two woman should Not get any role in US government because you just don’t trust muslims.
Frederic E Biondolillo says
These 2 creepy women should be escorted to the out door. They are anti semetic fools that do not deserve to live in our great country.
Ruby says
I read that starting salary for AOC was 174k when she was whining about how to pay for an apt in DC. I’m guessing the other 3 from The Kiddie Table, as I call them, are making the same. If Tlaib wants to go visit Grandma she can do it on her own money not taxpayer money. And if you haven’t seen Grandma in 13yrs then A) she’s not that important to you and B) shame on you!
As for Muslims hating America, just look at Sweden that has taken in thousands of migrants and GIVEN them homes, GIVEN them jobs, GIVEN them clothing, GIVEN them food, GIVEN them healthcare and GIVEN them free college. What have the migrants given to Sweden? Skyrocketing rates of rape. There are sections that are no-go zones for police and native Swedes. Thats right, places where police don’t go. There is lawlessness and mob rule in those areas where the residents live just like back home- uncivilized toting guns and assault weapons. Why do the Swedes put up with it? Because they are afraid of being called ‘racist’ so instead they bend over, close their eyes and sing ‘Mama Mia’. Its a collossal shame. 20yrs ago Sweden was beautifully clean and nice. Now the Swedes drank the P.C. KoolAid and smile at how wonderfully open they are while violent crime soars. They even have chosen to not state the demographic of the perpetrators of crime so as not to offend the criminals. THIS is what is coming to America unless limits are set and the Constitution is followed. The Kiddie table wants to tear up the Constitution and replace it with Democrat control of everything. All of the US will be like the Black cities the Dems have left in shambles and Sharia law will be imposed.
JW says
Like it or not enough people voted them into office, just think about that. Their constituents most likely agree with them and will once agin vote them into office next election and possibly vote in another one or two who have the same ideology.