Posted on 12/08/2023 2:06:21 AM PST by Libloather
"Squad" Democrats gathered on Capitol Hill to call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza on Thursday, doubling down on accusations that Israel is targeting civilians and committing "genocide."
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., held the press conference alongside Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. They also invited members of the Doctors Without Borders organization, which provides humanitarian aid in Gaza. Bush had vicious words for Israel during her opening remarks.
"When we hear genocidal rhetoric, when we witness devastation and mass murder, when we finance the bombs being dropped, when we intentionally disregard the suffering, we allow the people we represent to be complicit in mass atrocities," Bush said.
"And let me be clear about what's happening: These are war crimes. The targeting of civilians is a war crime; the targeting of medical facilities is a war crime, the starvation and withholding of water and electricity is a war crime; the collective punishment of 2.3 million people is a war crime, and we refuse to be silent," she added as Omar and Tlaib nodded in agreement.
Israel, meanwhile, gave civilians in the Gaza Strip warnings and urged them to evacuate war zones ahead of strikes targeting Hamas's terror infrastructure. While many Palestinian civilians have died during the war, the Biden administration has defended Israel's right to self-defense, noting that civilian deaths, while tragic, are a result of "the nature of conflict."
The "Squad" trio has already faced heavy criticism for their incendiary rhetoric around the Israel-Hamas war. Tlaib herself was censured in the House of Representatives in November after she defended a chant calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Tlaib also jumped to accuse Israeli Defense Forces of bombing a hospital in Gaza in October.
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Speaker Johnson should send these 3 clowns on a Congressional Fact Finding mission to GAZA for 90 days.
Israel is going to win the war against the terrorists who hide in schools, hospitals and mosques behind women and children. Israel has no choice. Extinguishing your enemy is how you defeat terrorism. Israel knows that and the USA does not - witness Afghanistan, Iraq, Isis where the US lost the war on terror.
One day soon the USA will have to do this in our own country.
Make no mistake. This is the future of Democrats.
If this was a press conference, did these dolts take any questions?
Is “the Squad” aware that over 2000 of Hamas’ (etc.) own rockets have failed and fallen back on Gaza TRULY indiscriminately?
Is “the Squad” aware the ratio of civilian fatalities to Hamas and its allies fatalities is one of the lowest ever (if not the lowest ever) for a war involving a city?
Squad democrat D.C.’s version the the TV program the View.
Not long after Israel started going after Hamas, Hannity ran a clip of a couple of them ranting.
It was only about 30-40 seconds long.
Wish I could find that clip.
I don’t remember the exact date.
Really showed a couple of them in action.
Didn’t see that glittering jewel of colossal ignorance AOC (hats off to our late, beloved Rush).
This is Lee’s first term.
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