Well never has CYCLOPS post achieved such an immediate and satisfying response.
1."AIPAC splits with Trump and Netanyahu, backs visit by Omar and Tlaib to Israel"
"We disagree with Reps. Omar and Tlaib's support for the anti-Israel and anti-peace BDS movement, along with Rep. Tlaib's calls for a one-state solution.
We also believe every member of Congress should be able to visit and experience our democratic ally Israel firsthand," AIPAC
2. Head of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, t siding with AIPAC said "Israel did not choose wisely" in this decision.
3.Republican Sen. Marco Rubio disagrees "100%" with Omar and Tlaib on Israel "but denying them entry into the country is a mistake."
4. "AIPAC and other Jewish groups join prominent lawmakers in criticizing Israel’s decision to ban Tlaib and Omar" “the first instinct of Israeli officials to let them into the country was [the] right one.”
Including almost all US Jewish Organisations
- AIPAC (See above.)
- The Jewish Federations of North America
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- The American Jewish Committee
- The Anti-Defamation League
- Jewish Democratic Council of America
- Israel Policy Forum
- J Street And elected officials of Jewish Origins and Not
In Israel itself? "Israeli Decision on Omar and Tlaib Inflames Politics in Two Countries" NYTIMES
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/world/middleeast/israel-rashida-tlaib.html?module=inline
Today , Israel said that congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, could enter on humanitarian grounds so that she could see her 90-year-old grandmother, after she promised to “not promote boycotts” during her stay.
This is a second shift in position of Benjamin Netanyahu:
1.The Israeli Interior Ministry initially approved a planned official visit by Ms. Tlaib, of Michigan, and another Democratic lawmaker, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
2.But after a public objection by President Trump, it blocked them, citing their support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
3. Friday, Israel said Rashida Tlaib, could enter on humanitarian grounds to see her 90-year-old BUBBA,----after she promised to “not promote boycotts” during her stay.
Proving how politically inept are both the Israeli's and Tlaib.
Tlaib then reversed herself:
Refuses Israel's 'oppressive conditions' for West Bank visit-reuters
Tweeting: “I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity{BUBBA} to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies,” “Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in—fighting against racism, oppression & injustice,”
Joining Trumpfski in proving that Tweeting is not the smartest way to pursue a political cause.
Some Gratuitous advice to Rep.Tlaib:
- You have been gifted a golden political platform by the desperate bigots Trump and Netanyahu---one very smart the other deranged,you choose.
- Use it for the Palestinians not your sense of personal grievance or for showmanship.
- Trust not this temporary adulation.
- Call the heads of AIPAC,the American Jewish Committee and The Anti-Defamation League for PRIVATE one on one meetings.
- Do not grandstand after these meetings.
- Seek common ground--on a Palestinian homeland there is overwhelming sympathy among American Jews.
- Not least in your own Democratic Caucus.
- Resist making enemies for no purpose other than personal narcissism. There is a moment here. Will Tlaib seize it? The record is not encouraging.
POST SCRIPT
TRUMP FOX NEWS POLL issued Wednesday,taken Aug. 11 to 13.
Before stock market crash,caving on China "Christmas" Tariffs and Israel fiasco:
- Trump’s disapproval rating jumped five percentage points to 56 percent,
- One point shy of the record high of 57 percent
- Forty-three percent approved Trump’s job performance,
- Down from 46 percent.
- Record low was 38 per cent.
- White men, 46 percent disapproval.
- Independents, 64 percent.
- Fifty-nine percent "unhappy with the way things are going in the country" and
- Believe that Trump is “tearing the country apart,”
- Compared to 31 percent who say he is “drawing the country together.”
Anybody expecting some deflection coming?
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