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Posted on 07/12/2026 7:14:32 PM PDT by Freeleesy
The army's account has one armed man. His tweet has settlers, plural, brandishing rifles. Somebody's description is wrong, and it can be checked.
When Shabbat went out on Saturday night, I turned on my phone and found what everyone else in Israeli media found: Ro Khanna – a congressman from California – telling two million people that Israeli settlers with American-made M4s detained him in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and that when the IDF showed up, the soldiers sided with the settlers and kept him there.
My first reaction was anger at the men who blocked that road. It still is... why am I writing this column? Because I spent Saturday night reading everything published on this story, in English and in Hebrew, and the version Khanna is telling America has grown in the telling.
He told Reuters, twice in one sentence, that the men had machine guns. The M4 is a carbine. A small thing, maybe, from a politician who demands precision about every bomb Israel drops. The bigger problem is that the IDF statement said it is reviewing the identity of “the armed individual.” Singular. The army’s account has one armed man. His tweet has settlers, plural, brandishing rifles. Somebody’s description is wrong, and it can be checked.
Khanna's story ends four different ways Then there’s the ending, or rather the endings. His tweet said the IDF continued his detention. His own aide told reporters they were released when officers showed up. Khanna told CNN they were freed after the embassy reached a senior Israeli official. Haaretz reported it was the Foreign Ministry. The army said its troops cleared the road. I’ve read four accounts of how this ended, and Israelis get him out in all of them.
By Saturday night, an American news headline said he was detained by the IDF, and the men who actually blocked the road had disappeared from the story.
There’s also a question nobody in the American coverage has pressed. Khanna said the Israeli government was notified of his trip. An Israeli security source said the visit was never coordinated, which is why he had no security. Those are two different claims.
Remember, this was a tour of Judea and Samaria exclusively, with programming built entirely by Palestinian hosts, by a man who declared before boarding the van that anyone unwilling to say “genocide” and “apartheid” is morally compromised, three weeks after signing a pledge committing him to those exact positions, and who told the Times it is not a good idea to detain long-shot presidential candidates. He knows what Wednesday is worth to him...
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Ro Khanna is an unmitigated POS. A POS.
Absolutely
Khanna was my Congressman when I lived in Silicon Valley. He came on the scene as a moderate Democrat, aligned with business in the tech industry. But as his ambition grows and he tries to move up in the Democrat Party hierarchy, he’s moved further and further left. He’s positioned now as a hardcore Leftist. At least I know that people like AOC and Sanders honestly believe in Leftism. I have no idea what Khanna really believes - he is a political opportunist who will portray himself as whatever he needs to in order to advance himself. That’s at least as scary as a died-in-the-wool Socialist.
He’s like Obama - a smart sounding polished slick talker fronting for a snake. Maybe there is an actual snake in there!
Dang it...
Too bad someone didn’t off that POS...
LOL
He changed during Obama-years?
Another low down dirty rotten lying demoncRAT from CA no less. The RATS lied so much during the stolen creepy gropin’ pedo slowjoe admin that they wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked them in kisser. Sheesh!
There is a strong parallel between MSN silence on Biden’s health till it blew over and nazi-rapist-Platner scandal.
Too bad the IDF didnt take Khanna’s Jew hating ass and throw him into Gaza let Hamas have some fun with him..after all he should be happy to be with Hamas, they both have the same agenda and the same ideology
He’s not from California, like most of his supporters.
He moved here cuz his Raza moved here too.
Just a bunch of scheming foreigners who spend all their time on “how do we take what they have”.
“He told Reuters, twice in one sentence, that the men had machine guns. The M4 is a carbine. A small thing, maybe, from a politician who demands precision about every bomb Israel drops.”
The reporter needs some education about firearms to be as precise as he demands of others. A military M4 is a machine gun. It also has a semi-auto mode and a safety. Depends upon how the mode selector is positioned.
It was probably a select fire M4 carbine, so yes, it likely was a machine gun. Just about everything else Khanna was probably bs.
A carbine can be a machine gun as defined by the NFA. The M4A1 is an example of this.
I believe the correct term is, 'serpent.'
In recent weeks, Ro Khanna appeared in Bar Harbor, Maine at a small rally for Graham Platner, the nipple Nazi who also trained members of Antifa how to use firearms in the Maine Woods.
Scumbags, the both of them.
He’s an UGLY LIAR!!! A PERFECT DEMOCRAT!
Would not be surprised if the whole incident was staged. Or if Khanna did something so provocative, that it provoked a response. His base will eat this story up like flies eating excrement.
Probably not pertinent to this specific article, but yesterday someone here pointed out the fact that Swalwell’s honeypot Fang Fang had worked for Ro Khanna in the past. She was spreading her spy “talents” around.
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