She was likely wrong about the hospital explosion, but it is hardly a criticism of a Palestinian Arab representative to point out that her sympathies lie with Palestinian Arabs rather than the Israeli government.
Over the US government too. Maybe she should have run for Palestinian legislative instead of the US.
She is a Palestinian Arab, and she does appear to express the opinions of the majority of her constituents.
Does she though? The partisan primary system skews the representation toward the extremes, esp. in safe districts.
The US is a free country, and she is perfectly entitled to do that without being censured or expelled from Congress.
Tacitly taking the side of a terrorist organization is worth a censure I think. If she goes as far as providing material support, expelling her from Congress and referring her to DOJ for prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §2339B. But we are not that far yet. -
I cannot find any statement from her to corroborate your claim, but you don't bother to support it.
I did link to it in a previous post.
What I have seen is that she supports a one-state solution.
That's it! The so-called "one state solution" is, in effect, seeking to abolish Israel and replace it with "Palestine".
To me, that seems extremely unlikely to happen, although it would be the one I would favor ideologically, if it were practical and possible. That is not a desire to abolish Israel, but to transform it into a multiethnic nation in the same sense that the United States is a multiethnic country.
In the end it means abolishing Israel and replacing it with "Palestine" as the new state would be dominated by Muslims and Arabs due to their high birth rate. And they are also very hostile to Israelis, so Israeli Jews would be pressured to leave.
I have seen no evidence of that, and you assert it without support. So I disagree with your unsupported opinion.
She accepted the Hamas claim about the hospital bombing and disbelieved the statements made by Biden about it. That is a fact.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib draws fire for not apologizing for saying Israel caused Gaza hospital blast
Yes. Although, with enough firepower, I am sure Hamas would be geocidal as well.
If so, I would say that at least some Israelis consider their government policy in responding to the October 7 attack is genocidal--to target anyone in Gaza regardless of whether they had anything to do with that attack or even supported Hamas in any way. And that point has even been made by a few critical PMs in the Knesset. I stand by my statement.
IDF is not "targeting anyone in Gaza". They are targeting Hamas. Collateral damage happens in every war. That is not genocidal. Hamas aims are genocidal. Israeli aims are not.
Very definitely, but half the population of the Gaza Strip is children or teenagers, many of whom are being slaughtered in the Israeli bombardment.
How many of the dead and injured minors have been teenage combatants? Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups recruit and deploy them as young as 15 and 16.
Has it not occurred to you that the survivors of this debacle will feel motivated to join terrorist campaigns against Israel in the future? Do you not understand that this is a blood feud in which each side feels a need to settle scores? Israel has already killed far more Palestinians than Israelis who were killed and abducted on October 7.
Should Israel stop at 1400? Should US have stopped the War on Terror when ~3000 on the other side were killed?
Should US have called for a ceasefire with Japan as soon as they killed as many Japanese as were killed in Pearl Harbour?
That's a silly objection.
And that disparity will only grow wider as Israel presses its ground incursion into the Strip. If hostages are killed in the process, I will be surprised to hear that the Israeli government admits that any of them died by friendly fire. This ground invasion is definitely going to result in more hostages being killed, possibly the majority of those remaining alive today.
It is obvious Hamas will not release the hostages without Israel conceding to ridiculous demands like releasing 5,000 imprisoned terrorists. That mistake was made in 2010 and I hope Israel never makes it again. So Israel either tries to free hostages by storming Hamas or else they are as good as dead anyway.
Yes, she is pro-Palestinian all the way. Not pro-Hamas.
If she thinks Israel is at fault in this war, which was started by Hamas massacring 1,400 Israelis then she is really pro-Hamas even if she doesn't want to admit it. And I do not see how somebody can be "pro-Palestinian
all the way" without also supporting Hamas atrocities.
I have seen nothing from her that suggests she thinks Hamas are good guys, that their use of terrorism is acceptable, or that she supports their control of the government in the Gaza Strip.
I see de facto support for what Hamas is doing. As you said, she is "pro-Palestinian
all the way". So anything Israel does to defend itself from terror is wrong, and Palestinian terror is excused as "resistance" even as they slaughter civilians like on 10/7.
Again, she will not come out and say it verbatim, but her hostility toward Israel speaks loudly enough.
And it is a fact that Israel itself has partially funded Hamas in the past.
The precursor organization which started as a charity of sorts before they expanded into terrorism and genocide.
It is now coming out that the Netanyahu government has been extremely complacent and lax in recognizing the danger that Hamas extremists posed, and that is now coming back to haunt Netanyahu.
Yes, Netanyahu government made mistakes. Doesn't mean that every allegation leveled against them is true.
The WWII whataboutery analogy is being promoted by the Israeli government, because it is just a false analogy fallacy.
It's not whataboutery. Hamas is every bit as evil as NSDAP. And just like NSDAP, Hamas must be crushed.
One can always find a few similarities to build an analogy on, but it breaks down rapidly. The Japanese sneak attack was on a military target, and Japan had already secretly declared war on the US.
Japan was nowhere near the level of evil as Hamas.
Nazi Germany is a more apt comparison. Genocidal and antisemitic.
I could go on, but the analogy is simply absurd.
Of course there are strategic differences. The main similarity is the ideologies and the fact that Nazi Germany could not be left with a premature "ceasefire". Another analogy is that a certain number of civilian casualties are necessary to defeat evil.
