Rashida Tlaib is a Palestinian. I will cut her some slack on this and so should you. Does it surprise you that she would react with her gut at seeing her people slaughtered? Many Palestinians on the ground probably jumped to that conclusion based simply on the fact that Israel is hammering Gaza right now. I myself, after careful consider…
Rashida Tlaib is a Palestinian. I will cut her some slack on this and so should you. Does it surprise you that she would react with her gut at seeing her people slaughtered? Many Palestinians on the ground probably jumped to that conclusion based simply on the fact that Israel is hammering Gaza right now. I myself, after careful consideration initially concluded that it was more likely that the rocket came from Israel. This was based on
a) the erroneous reporting that the blast was too big to have come from a Palestinian rocket and
b) the fact that the official IDF spokesman I saw on MSNBC only denied that Israel would deliberately target hospitals, and did not deny at that time that this particular rocket came from Israel
I thought this meant that the blast was likely fired by Israel by mistake, or that
some rogue military man with an extreme agenda of his own trying to sabotage Biden's attempt to calm things down. I wondered where the evidence was. I was wrong, and very happy to be wrong. Ms. Tlaib is not a "useful idiot" but she, like I, was wrong.
Those fools who celebrated the Hamas attack were idiots and moral dolts. But nobody else is responsible for their action. And even they are not wrong about everything, it remains true that the UN designated Gaza as an "outdoor prison" and that Bibi Netanyahu has pursued for years, a policy of favoring Hamas over the PA on the grounds that this would prevent the Palestinians from coalescing around a statehood. He bears some responsibility for these events, as his plummeting poll numbers indicate.
She's not a "Palestinian." She's an American. She took an oath to AMERICA. She represents AMERICANS, not Palestinians.
We do not expect our leaders to react/lead with their "gut" but to be introspective and cautious in their statements.
It's been over a day and a half. It is clear that it wasn't an Israeli bomb. It's clear that a hospital wasn't destroyed. It's clear that 500+ people were not killed.
Yet she continues with the same false claims. This isn't a responsible leader. This is propagandist for a foreign organization.
So, immigrants from another country must renounce any sympathy they may hold for family and friends in their former country? Interesting concept. Must I renounce any sympathy for my cousin and her family who LIVE in Israel and know people who were killed, simply because I'm American? Must pro-Zionist American Jews renounce THEIR sympathy for their kin in Israel. These cousins are activists for peace. That also exists in Israel. We know much about the victims of the Hamas attack. We have no real idea of the human catastrophe that is going on in Gaza. Nobody here has said the killings of Israeli children were justified.
Propagandists for a foreign organization? Is that not what organizations like AIPAC do?
It is understandable, but it is still not excusable. Bigotry in all forms should be called out. Tlaib's statements can do real damage even if her heart is in the right place (which I'm not convinced it is).
The only thing “ignorant” is trying to understand the “point of view” of people who celebrate the butchering of children.
Please. Tell us why this was OK. Give us all the reasons why burning people alive; tossing grenades into rooms full of unarmed civilians is Ok; why killing whole nurseries full of children was “justified”
Rashida Tlaib is a Palestinian. I will cut her some slack on this and so should you. Does it surprise you that she would react with her gut at seeing her people slaughtered? Many Palestinians on the ground probably jumped to that conclusion based simply on the fact that Israel is hammering Gaza right now. I myself, after careful consideration initially concluded that it was more likely that the rocket came from Israel. This was based on
a) the erroneous reporting that the blast was too big to have come from a Palestinian rocket and
b) the fact that the official IDF spokesman I saw on MSNBC only denied that Israel would deliberately target hospitals, and did not deny at that time that this particular rocket came from Israel
I thought this meant that the blast was likely fired by Israel by mistake, or that
some rogue military man with an extreme agenda of his own trying to sabotage Biden's attempt to calm things down. I wondered where the evidence was. I was wrong, and very happy to be wrong. Ms. Tlaib is not a "useful idiot" but she, like I, was wrong.
Those fools who celebrated the Hamas attack were idiots and moral dolts. But nobody else is responsible for their action. And even they are not wrong about everything, it remains true that the UN designated Gaza as an "outdoor prison" and that Bibi Netanyahu has pursued for years, a policy of favoring Hamas over the PA on the grounds that this would prevent the Palestinians from coalescing around a statehood. He bears some responsibility for these events, as his plummeting poll numbers indicate.
Enough with the left-bashing. This is not 2001.
No, we should not "cut her some slack."
She's not a "Palestinian." She's an American. She took an oath to AMERICA. She represents AMERICANS, not Palestinians.
We do not expect our leaders to react/lead with their "gut" but to be introspective and cautious in their statements.
It's been over a day and a half. It is clear that it wasn't an Israeli bomb. It's clear that a hospital wasn't destroyed. It's clear that 500+ people were not killed.
Yet she continues with the same false claims. This isn't a responsible leader. This is propagandist for a foreign organization.
So, immigrants from another country must renounce any sympathy they may hold for family and friends in their former country? Interesting concept. Must I renounce any sympathy for my cousin and her family who LIVE in Israel and know people who were killed, simply because I'm American? Must pro-Zionist American Jews renounce THEIR sympathy for their kin in Israel. These cousins are activists for peace. That also exists in Israel. We know much about the victims of the Hamas attack. We have no real idea of the human catastrophe that is going on in Gaza. Nobody here has said the killings of Israeli children were justified.
Propagandists for a foreign organization? Is that not what organizations like AIPAC do?
We don’t need to know about your personal issues.
It is understandable, but it is still not excusable. Bigotry in all forms should be called out. Tlaib's statements can do real damage even if her heart is in the right place (which I'm not convinced it is).
So butchering children is ok? Because of a different “point of view?”
Interesting take.
The only thing “ignorant” is trying to understand the “point of view” of people who celebrate the butchering of children.
Please. Tell us why this was OK. Give us all the reasons why burning people alive; tossing grenades into rooms full of unarmed civilians is Ok; why killing whole nurseries full of children was “justified”
GTFO.