Washington – A Republican lawmaker from Texas is trying to prevent freshman congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from leading a delegation of freshman lawmakers to the West Bank.
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The trip led by Tlaib, who is Palestinian American, would be held at the same time as the traditional Israel mission for first-term lawmakers sponsored by the education arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, which includes touring and meetings with leading Israeli figures in business, government and the military.
Rep. Brian Babin said in a letter dated Jan. 17 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and circulated to fellow congressmen that the taxpayer-funded trip led by “an outspoken supporter of the ‘BDS’ Israeli boycott movement and whose personal vitriol led her to publicly brag about calling our President a “mother****er” to her young son, is both ill-conceived and inconsistent with our national values.”
He said that Israel is “of vital importance to U.S. interests in the Middle East,” and that a trip of lawmakers exclusively to the West Bank “threatens that relationship. To signal to our most threatened ally in the region that the United States Congress sanctions an official trip to visit Israel’s nemesis would be an exceedingly dangerous path forward.”
“Please consider the damage that a yet unexperienced and overly caustic Member of Congress may cause to Israeli relations, or the perceptions of our own Jewish-American citizens,” he also wrote.
Tlaib has called the AIPAC-sponsored trip “one-sided.” She said she would take lawmakers to the northern West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Foqa, where her grandmother lives.
I am not afraid of minority views. In reality, the AIPAC tour is a useful piece of foreign relations. United States has many layers of connection with Israel, and meeting with the various officials and industrial leaders is beneficial to all. What Tlaib wants to accomplish is so different that the only common denominator is the proposed scheduling. She is on a mission to push the agenda of terror tolerance, the baschmutzing of Israeli policy, the trashing of anything that is Jewish-American, and the furthering of her anti-Semitic agenda. She will promote herself by making these freshmen congresspeople visit her grandmother. Bubbe Maases!
She needs to be stopped, and Pelosi, if there is any moral character left in her, needs to put this terror representative to Congress in her place.
Good for the Texas lawmaker. If she wants to visit her grandmother let her pay for the trip. It will be interesting to see how Pelosi handles this.
She’s an undercover Trump Chump and wants to learn more about building walls.
Let her go and make her stay.
she is not about finding out the truth, she is about antisemitism and how to spread hatred while smiling….
Muslims voting for terrorist-lovers like Tlaib is just another reason why a Muslim ban is not a bad idea.
Time to face the uncomfortable truth. The Islamic population is growing faster than the Jewish population in the United States and as more representatives need their votes our influence will undoubtedly weaken.
Remember John Sununu, GHW Bush’s chief of staff? Hardly a friend of Israel.
The number of Arab and Muslim members of Congress will continue to grow. We need to find new approaches to new situations. The influence of AIPAC has probably reached its apex and much to our detriment start to weaken over the next twenty years.
Arguing against this reality on VIN won’t help, but feel free to vilify me if you need to avoid facing reality. Probably no worse than Xanax, at least in the short term.
Why are there two comment #1 ???