Agree. There’s a lot of people out there who certainly want Israel as an ally, but don’t want to support behavior that we condemn when any other country does it, let alone when it’s done with U.S.-provided weaponry. Just feels hypocritical. And the AIPACs of the world have noticed that and are fighting hard to maintain their position and control over the debate.
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Gym Jordan’s stuck on Tom $teyer
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Curious the different handling here. The progressives “claim” something but the GOP is taken at face value.
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I believe that many American Muslims and Jews are doing exactly that, regardless of the stuff that goes on in Washington. This just seems like more grist for the “Dems divided over anti-semitic comments.”
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Put your head in the sand and leave it there. It is what the U.S. has done far too long reguarding treatment of the Palestinian people.
You Bitch about her disruptive behavior, look at your self.
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Yes, I agree.
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Omar didn’t run for the House seat in order to be vilified in a poster hanging in W.Va. . What she said was bad, but the reaction’s been worse. This is a new day. Everyone needs to move on.
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Have you ever read the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz? They regularly criticize Israeli policy.
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It’s a good paper. I read it often, but now they have a pricey subscription.
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Move on?! This is the gang that still fights over Hillary vs. Bernie!
We love a circular firing squad!
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Shit… There goes the third rail…
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That’s been going on for decades. It’s just not enough to overcome the powerful and entrenched pro-Israel-cum-weapons-cum-evangelical lobbying-cum-PAC conglomerate that demands unquestioning support for anything and everything Israel does.
Change will never happen otherwise. Trump also calls for calm – a “peace” that relies on the rest of us being doormats. Same same.
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In that case we’re due to have a renamed website, Never Going to Move On. 
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or www.hatfield-mccoy.com … Currently has some legal team squatting on it.
That URL is already taken.
You do not have access to the Editors Blog but Josh has very favorable write up on the outcome.
If you look at history; It was the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, signed in March 1979 (The Camp David Accords) that cost Jimmy Carter his re-election in the 1980 campaign.
Right after that happened, rogue members of the CIA (including former Director of the CIA George H.W. Bush) implemented a plan to embarrass Carter with the engineered debacle in Iran (which we are STILL paying for.)
The whole thing was coordinated and implemented by far-right factions within both the CIA and the Mossad who were furious with the peace treaty and Israel handing 91% of the gains Israel made in the Yom Kipper War back to Egypt.
It also led DIRECTLY to the assassination of Anwar Sadat, who signed the treaty for Egypt, and the rise of the militant far-right in both Islam and in Israel (led by Bibi Netenyahu) which led inevitably to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1992 for the temerity of trying to negotiate a peace with the Palestinians.
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That’s a tough one to untangle.
On the one hand you have a perennially unpopular and marginalized minority who, after centuries of tragedy, slaughter, and persecution, finally have a homeland in which they can be free to live their lives as Jews.
On the other hand, you have a group of people who believe in an apocryphal tale of an imminent, final battle between Good and Evil, which must take place in the Middle East and will force Jews to either accept Jesus or die in eternal fire.
One promises hope for a new life for a community of faith, the other is obsessed with fantasy scenarios of the end of the world.
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The Editors Blog is public. Sometimes the write-ups there are behind a paywall though. Just now checked and don’t see anything about this.
“Perhaps Omar’s true calling is as an activist and not as a representative.”
Perhaps if our Reps were more active with their representation we wouldn’t be where we are.
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