Posted on 05/14/2019 4:40:06 PM PDT by SJackson
The representative’s account of the Arab-Israeli conflict relies on origin myths about the birth of Israel.
On Friday, Representative Rashida Tlaib was attacked by President Donald Trump for a “horrible and highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust” and for having “tremendous hatred of … the Jewish people.” Trump’s off-base attack distracted from the actual problems with Tlaib’s account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, in which she deployed deliberately imprecise language, misleading her listeners about the early history of the conflict in Palestine and misrepresenting its present and possible future.
Tlaib told the hosts of the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery that when she remembers the Holocaust, it has a “calming” effect on her to think that “it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land, and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity; their existence in some ways had been wiped out … all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.” She was, she said, “humbled by the fact that it was [my Palestinian] ancestors that had to suffer for that to happen.”
But the historical reality was quite different from what Tlaib described: The Palestinians indirectly, and in some ways directly, aided in the destruction of European Jewry.
After Hitler’s accession to power in Germany in 1933, German and then Eastern European Jews sought escape and safe havens. But all the Western countries, including the United States and Britain and its dominions, closed their doors to significant Jewish immigration. Palestine emerged as the only potential safe haven. In 1932, the British allowed 9,500 Jews to immigrate to Palestine. In 1933, the number shot up to 30,000, and in 1935, it peaked at 62,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
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Fair to call both Benny Morris and The Atlantic as from the left. A shame it's excerpted, it's worth reading. And from the right. Related threads
Magnanimity, Thy Name Is Tlaib-A prejudice exposed cannot be ignored.
Oh, please......that's why the dingdong is there....to rewrite hisory...... as she sees fit.
Good Lord, can’t we stop talking about this awful woman.
She hates Jews, hates Israel and hates America..she is the perfect Commie Dem
When The Atlantic and other Dem/leftist sites and people start distancing themselves from hateful anti-Semitism, that is significant. Recently (one or two days ago) I saw something about “Jexit” - Jews leaving the Dem party.
What she said was very confused and incoherent, but clearly she wasn’t saying that Palestinian Arabs supported or promoted Jewish immigration or that it was something they wanted.
To know history, first thing might be to learn to read.
Maybe I’m ignorant but I’ll ask anyways...
Where is the country of Palestine located?
Rashida Tlaib has just about everything wrong.
Why do we keep promoting this wench and her commie anti American views? Promote MAGA not anti-America. Same with her peers. She should become a non entity not a martyr.
Rashida Tlaib has just about everything wrong.
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IOW, a perfect democrat
It’s a very slow news period. The media are hungry for ANYTHING.
Muslims use Taqiyya to further the goal of Islam. The only time they really tell the truth is when they say they want to kill all Jews and want to establish a worldwide Caliphate under Sharia law.
Fixed it for you.
Nice to see this in a mainstream publication.
No, no. The truth is she’s just another democrat liar.
Rashida Tlaib is either completely ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar,” charged Prof. Benny Morris, one of the leading scholars of British Mandatory Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the War of Independence in 1948-1949.
Morris said Tlaib’s ancestors, meaning Palestinians, “did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Jews at Nazi hands. Rather, the opposite: The Arabs of [British Mandatory] Palestine, during the whole period — and supported by the neighboring Arab states — did all they could to prevent Jews trying to escape Nazi hands from reaching the (relatively safe) shores of Palestine.”
The anti-British and anti-Zionist revolt launched by Palestinian Arabs between 1936 and 1939 both deterred European Jews from escaping to Mandatory Palestine and motivated the British rulers to prevent more refugee Jews from entering Palestine so as not to inflame the Arabs, Morris said.
He also pointed out that the leader of the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement, Haj Amin al-Husseini, during his exile in Berlin from 1941-1945, “called for the massacre of Jews in the Arab world on Nazi radio stations — an anti-Jewish ‘jihad’ — and helped the Nazis recruit Muslims from the Balkans for the SS and Wehrmacht.” https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-israeli-palestinian-scholars-reject-rashida-tlaib-s-take-on-post-holocaust-history-1.7239784
Even though the moonbat told the lies, they stick the Trump bashing at the top of the story.
Her brains have gone missing due to brainwashing.
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