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Teh One Who Knocks
08-20-2019, 11:34 AM
By Alex Pappas | Fox News


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An emotional Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday held back tears during a news conference as she and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar condemned Israel’s recent decision to impose restrictions on visiting the country, with the Democrats calling for Congress to get involved.

“We in the United States have a constructive role to play,” Omar said at the news conference in St. Paul, Minn. “We give Israel more than $3 billion in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region, and the only democracy in the Middle East. But, denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally.”

Omar said lawmakers “have a responsibility to conduct oversight over our government’s foreign policy and what happens with the millions of dollars we send in aid.”

The two Muslim lawmakers held an afternoon news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol Building with Palestinian-American and Jewish-American residents of Minnesota who said they also have been affected adversely by travel restrictions to Israel and the Palestinian territories. The purpose of the event, Omar said, was to “highlight the human costs of the occupation and travel restrictions on Palestinians and others.”

"The decision to ban me and my colleague, the first two Muslim-American women elected to Congress, is nothing less than an attempt by an ally of the United States to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials," Omar said.

Tlaib held back tears as she discussed her experiences visiting Jerusalem as a child.

“As a young girl visiting Palestine to see my grandparents and extended family, I watched as my mother had to go through dehumanizing checkpoints – even though she was a United States citizen and a proud American,” she said.

Referencing recent conversations with her Palestinian grandmother, who she had planned to visit on the trip, Tlaib choked up: “She said I’m her dream manifested. I’m her free bird so why would I come back and be caged and bow down?”

Omar jumped in: “What I tell Rashida all the time is that you don’t ever allow people to enjoy your tears. I say that all the time. There are so many people invested in our pain, in our struggle, in seeing us broken.”

Earlier Monday, the White House fired back at Democrats amid reports that they may be planning retaliatory moves in Congress against two top American and Israeli diplomats.

“Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have a well-documented history of anti-Semitic comments, anti-Semitic social media posts and anti-Semitic relationships,” said White House spokesman Hogan Gidley. “Israel has the right to prevent people who want to destroy it from entering the country – and Democrats’ pointless congressional inquiries here in America cannot change the laws Israel has passed to protect itself.”

According to a weekend report in McClatchy, senior Democrats in Congress were considering legislative action against Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, and David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, in response to the decision not to let Tlaib, D-Mich., and Omar, D-Minn., enter Israel. That could include a possible vote on a statement of no confidence in Dermer, as well as calls for the opening of an inspector-general investigation into Friedman.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited Omar and Tlaib’s anti-Israel statements in saying the government would block them from entering Israel as part of a planned trip.

The move – announced shortly after President Trump tweeted that it would "show great weakness" to allow them in – ignited a massive outcry from Washington Democrats, as Netanyahu's government stood by the decision arguing the U.S. lawmakers had an ulterior, anti-Israel agenda.

Omar and Tlaib have been outspoken critics of Israeli policies and have expressed support for boycotts of the country.

Speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in the House, defended Israel’s decision.

“Israel has a law that is on the books that allows them to prevent anyone to visit their country that seeks to harm their country. It would be wrong to be criticizing Israeli Prime Minister to the United States for his role in this because they don’t want to have people traveling to their country that want to harm it,” he said.

Still, while blocking the planned trip, the Israeli government said it would accept a humanitarian request from Tlaib to visit her Palestinian grandmother. But, on Friday, Tlaib said she would not travel to the West Bank to visit family, despite getting permission hours before from Israel’s interior minister.

Netanyahu has said that Tlaib and Omar's itinerary "revealed that they planned a visit whose sole objective is to strengthen the boycott against us and deny Israel's legitimacy." He said Israel welcomes critics with the exception of those who support boycotts of the Jewish State.

Omar and Tlaib had planned to visit Jerusalem and the West Bank on a tour organized by a Palestinian organization aimed at highlighting the plight of the Palestinians.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

DemonGeminiX
08-20-2019, 03:19 PM
Israel is its own country, and they can do whatever the fuck they want. Maybe if y'all weren't fuckin' terrorists, then there wouldn't be any issue.

Why we are giving these 2, or any of the 4 freshmen Democrat Representatives for that matter, any time in front of a microphone at all is beyond comprehension.

Teh One Who Knocks
08-20-2019, 03:27 PM
Because they are the future :hand:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-20-2019, 03:27 PM
I like how they are whining about travel restriction AFTER the Israelis waived the restriction for Tlaib :roll:

DemonGeminiX
08-20-2019, 03:28 PM
Because they are the future :hand:

:-s

Not if they lose their reelection bids.

DemonGeminiX
08-20-2019, 04:04 PM
I like how they are whining about travel restriction AFTER the Israelis waived the restriction for Tlaib :roll:

I know, it's ridiculous. As if people won't notice, right?

fricnjay
08-20-2019, 06:16 PM
Can you blame them after Ilhan Omar's remarks. I mean get real, this is a small Jewish country surrounded by Muslims hell bent on killing them all. Why the hell would they want to let the 2 in there nation? :shakehead:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-20-2019, 06:51 PM
Can you blame them after Ilhan Omar's remarks. I mean get real, this is a small Jewish country surrounded by Muslims hell bent on killing them all. Why the hell would they want to let the 2 in there nation? :shakehead:

They already granted Tlaib a waiver so that she could come visit her grandmother after she appealed their decision to deny her entry. Then she turned that down and now after all that, she's publicly whining about not being allowed into Israel.

fricnjay
08-20-2019, 07:08 PM
They already granted Tlaib a waiver so that she could come visit her grandmother after she appealed their decision to deny her entry. Then she turned that down and now after all that, she's publicly whining about not being allowed into Israel.

So they were going to allow her in and she turned that down and is now crying they wouldn't let her in :dunce:

DemonGeminiX
08-20-2019, 07:12 PM
So they were going to allow her in and she turned that down and is now crying they wouldn't let her in :dunce:

Yep.

Muddy
08-20-2019, 08:47 PM
I just got emotional..

DemonGeminiX
08-20-2019, 09:40 PM
I just got emotional..

I get emotional when you get emotional.

lost in melb.
08-20-2019, 09:47 PM
Blame the British. Simple

Muddy
08-21-2019, 12:56 AM
I get emotional when you get emotional.

Cry with me...

RBP
08-21-2019, 02:32 AM
I just got emotional..


I get emotional when you get emotional.


Cry with me...

Muslims hate fags. Just saying.

lost in melb.
08-21-2019, 02:34 AM
:lol:

DemonGeminiX
08-21-2019, 06:05 AM
Blame the British. Simple

It's so much easier to blame the Aussies though. They never put up a fight. :nana:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-21-2019, 10:16 AM
Muslims hate fags. Just saying.

Don't tell that to the left, they'll call you an Islamaphobe for that kinda talk :hand:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-21-2019, 10:16 AM
It's so much easier to blame the Aussies though. They never put up a fight. :nana:

That's the French :nono:

PorkChopSandwiches
08-21-2019, 04:42 PM
After reading muddys comments, I too am crying

Teh One Who Knocks
08-21-2019, 04:53 PM
https://i.imgur.com/z7bheyel.jpg

Muddy
08-21-2019, 04:56 PM
After reading muddys comments, I too am crying

Let me hold you like a baby.

PorkChopSandwiches
08-21-2019, 05:40 PM
I could use a suckle

Muddy
08-21-2019, 05:44 PM
Take your clothes off.

PorkChopSandwiches
08-21-2019, 05:49 PM
Im sitting here in a diaper right now

DemonGeminiX
08-21-2019, 06:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDDi6MN3IHQ