Representatives Tlaib and Omar Must Go to Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu is as small and as short-sighted as the current US president (who prompted the deny-entry move believing–wrongly–this will win him votes of hundreds of thousands of Jews). And it is not the first time Mr Netanyahu has abused our nation’s compact with his while claiming to cherish it–he accepted a House Address invitation knowing well that Mr Boehner kept knowledge of it from Mr Obama. That was a disgrace on Netanyahu’s part as well as the former Speaker’s, as is this latest.
This is simple: the women are elected US Representatives. Denying them entry over political views strikes at the soul of what we must continue to demand be resurrected as Israeli Democracy, no matter how far its PM has strayed from his nation’s, and our own, core values in his bound-to-fail alliance with United States authoritarianism. Both Representatives, Omar and Tlaib, must go to Israel.
Mr Netanyahu and Mr Trump simply must go.
08/15/2019 @ 3:11 pm
I just wrote a post about the same subject.
08/15/2019 @ 3:38 pm
Pleased to say that this is now at the NYT online and I’m told will be in print vers. tomorrow.
08/15/2019 @ 8:53 pm
You need to provide a link, Jon or it may never be found!
08/15/2019 @ 9:28 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/letters And in print edition Friday morning.
08/15/2019 @ 8:38 pm
It bears mention that the majority of Israeli citizens approve of & vote for Netanyahu and his far right, fascist coalition time after time. That is how he keeps his power. That he is in agreement with the fascist in the White House (that both he and his government helped put there) is not much of a surprise.
08/16/2019 @ 6:45 am
This recent manifestation of incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity is an appalling, but not surprising, disgrace.
Israel has to know that Trump takes ques from Putin….Why in the world would they permit such lunacy to become actual Israeli policy?
And; What is Chuck Schumer up to anyway?
We may find out when this current bunch of bullshit unravels…