Posted on 01/20/2019 7:30:25 AM PST by SJackson
A Republican congressman is urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to block freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, from leading a delegation to the West Bank, arguing that the trip would hurt U.S.-Israel relations.
Tlaib's planned delegation to the West Bank, which is set for the same time as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) trip for new members of Congress, would be "inconsistent with our national values," Texas Rep. Brian Babin (R) argued in a letter.
"I am writing to express my extreme concern that a newly elected Member of Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has plans to lead a taxpayer-funded Congressional delegation (CODEL) to Palestine," Babin wrote in the letter to Pelosi.
"This action, from 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 added, referring to Tlaib's much-publicized recent comments about impeaching President Trump.
Critics of the conservative-leaning AIPAC group argue that the trip for new lawmakers presents a narrow view of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and Tlaib herself has urged her fellow members of Congress to meet with Palestinian activists to hear their perspective.
"I want us to see that segregation [between Israelis and Palestinians] and how that has really harmed us being able to achieve real peace in that region,” Tlaib told The Intercept in December. “I don’t think AIPAC provides a real, fair lens into this issue."
"It’s one-sided," she added at the time. "[They] have these lavish trips to Israel, but they don’t show the side that I know is real, which is what’s happening to my grandmother and what’s happening to my family there.”
Tlaib and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) are vocal supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which urges private entities and governments to avoid business with Israel's government due to treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Uh, didn’t the OMB issue a memo stating no travel without approval? Or is this just planning for when the shutdown is over. In any case, me “IMF” should be grounded. Obviously does NOT have the best interest of this country or Israel in mind.
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If she wants to take a group of members of Congress to visit her grandmother, she should. However the fundamental difference is that the AIPAC trip is privately funded, limited to a maximum expenditure of about $10,000, $50,000 for the 5 freshman Congressmen who are going. Tlab's trip will be official, funded by the federal government. As such, the Democrats will own the trip, the purpose of which won't be stated as visiting grandma. Kind of like Pelosi's famous trip visiting Assad.
let the Arab go....dont protect her...maybe ISIS will get her and turn her into a pin cushion
I hope that Rep. Babin is prepared to be called a RACIST. Because, somehow, magically, Islam is a “race”.
Why would Israel let her in?
It is strange that in America we elect people dedicated to the destruction of our republic.
She hasn’t even been there a month and she’s planning EXPENSIVE overseas trips. All on OUR dime.
Parasites. ALL OF THEM!
They're Congresspeople, Israel will let them in.
No doubt our Donald and Bibi have already been on the phone discussing this upcoming event.
Insanity.
And five new federal Islamic holidays. Hitting the ground running.
She is pissing in the ocean.
She is not really what she thinks she is. ......... she is in reality nothing
Someone needs to hand this bitch a bacon sammich.
Congress-critters are already trusted less than used car salesman. Everyone hates the OTHER guy’s Congressman but not his own. And ‘everyone else’ can’t vote against his Congressman, so the incumbent stays.
The solution is term limits, which are so necessary to hobble the electorate’s choice to two terms of a president, but somehow Congressmen are immune to the trappings of power.
Why is a freshman Congresswoman leading anything? Is the rest of the delegation nothing but freshmen as well?
Any Jew that works with these people is a kapo. But, sadly there were many kapos that loaded their fellow Jews onto cattle cars. And eventually many if not most of the kapos were gassed. It didn’t matter if they were religious or secular Jews.
They will be condemned to repeat history if they don’t wake up.
Sadly, like ‘aoc’, she could be a thorn for decades to come.
Tlaib (D-Hezbollah)and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Al-Shabab)
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Muslims now have the numbers to elect their own.
Their agenda is not good for America.
My thought is she is the pea in the princess’s bed under three or four mattresses
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