Last Tuesday March 26, Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of ten House Democrats to Israel, where most of them met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu tweeted that night that he’d had an “excellent meeting” with the congresspeople.
At that time, Israel was already planning to shoot Palestinians in Gaza at the Land Day demonstration on Friday: “dozens of snipers will be deployed along the Gaza border,” the army announced that same day.
Four days later, Israeli snipers shot hundreds of unarmed Palestinian protesters across a fence on the Gaza border, killing 17. The massacre was denounced as criminal by B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, as well as many progressive groups in the United States. This week even the New York Times and J Street have joined the condemnation of the massacre.
It appears that none of the 11 Democrats on the trip has spoken out against Israel’s actions. It is only reasonable to ask: What did these congresspeople learn from Netanyahu or any of the many other government officials they met with? Did the congresspeople tell Netanyahu they would back him up if he used force? According to B’Tselem, Israeli officials “repeatedly threatened to respond with lethal force” to the Gaza protests, during the same interval in which some met with the Democrats.
Notably, Adam Schiff was along on the trip: the California congressperson who has led the effort to show that Russia manipulated the 2016 election. He is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Schiff doesn’t appear to have made the Netanyahu meeting. The picture Netanyahu tweeted shows him meeting Pelosi, Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Donald McEachin (D-Va.), Pelosi, Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). They were joined by Trump’s ambassador David Friedman.
I cannot find a word of criticism of the Israeli massacre that any of these Congresspeople has issued since their trip. Even Jan Schakowsky, who is considered progressive, has had nothing to say.
One has to wonder whether Netanyahu described his plans for Gaza to this very friendly audience. Schakowsky had backed Netanyahu to the hilt during earlier onslaughts on Gaza. So had Pelosi. “Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever,” Hakeem Jeffries proclaimed at a NY rally during the country’s 2014 onslaught on Gaza that killed 500 children.
Pelosi praised Israel to the skies ahead of the recent trip:
“There is no greater political accomplishment in the 20th Century than the establishment of the State of Israel,” Pelosi said in a press release posted on her website. “Our delegation is pleased to be able to extend the congratulations of the American people to the people of Israel as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Jewish state this spring.”
Pelosi subsequently bragged about the “candid, open dialogue” between the Democrats and Israeli leaders in a press release:
“The U.S.-Israel relationship is deep, it is bipartisan and it is continually strengthened by candid, open dialogue,” Leader Pelosi said. “At each of these interactions, our delegation reiterated American support for a two-state solution and for enduring peace in the region.”
What did they know and when did they know it?
The UK Labour Party is expelling MKs right and left for “antisemitism”. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we (USA DEMs) could expel these 11 for anti-Palestinian / anti-human-right / anti-international-law- ISM.
Be nice if there were at least a channel for proposing this.
Because it is hard to condemn the action that defends international border of the country from being breached by the rioting mob, with a direct support of a terrorist group.
@pabelmont
Just to correct you on this one. The Labour Party has expelled or suspended Labour Party members – not any Labour MP`s.
As for the farcical “Anti – Semitism” in the Labour Party saga it just goes on and on and on and on and is becoming increasingly boring. The Zio piranhas here in the UK have been feeding on this for at least five weeks and have been encouraged/bolstered and supported by the those unprincipled self serving cretons in to the right of the Labour Party and the so called centre who lost out who were bewildered bemused and befuddled by Corbyn`s success in being elected leader.The whole sorry saga can be compared to a treadmill which they have stated and have no way of stopping or stepping off. As for the Israel First Zionists in the unelected Board of Deputies of British Jews (sans Sheriff) well they are truly indulging in a mega whinge fest. In their eyes of course there is absolutely no point to Judaism,to being a Jew unless you can wail and whine about being continuously victimised and persecuted. This whole thing has been like manna from heaven for them. The absurdity of it all knows no bounds with a Jewish Labour Party member having some sort of weird mental panic breakdown and comparing the situation to events in Nazi Germany in the 1930`s !!. ( Jewish person being victimised into being a “Lord of the British realm shurely shome mishtake ?)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/940586/jeremy-corbyn-labour-antisemitism-1930s-lord-triesman
As we move towards the local council elections in May ( note the timing of this putrid campaign ) hopefully local voters will have seen through the charade and will vote for Corbyn supporting candidates.
But then again I expect this will prompt accusations of there “being endemic Anti – semitism in the British populace”.
These I really wanna live in my wonderful Biblical God Given hysterical homeland but I am quite well off here in the UK and don`t want to have to live alongside all those smelly Arab natives in the Middle East Ziofreaks still need their ongoing never ending daily whinge fix.
@dimadok
As with Amigo please do provide precise details of the legally recognised International Borders of Israel.
@amigo
Wikipedia:
Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council on August 24, 2005:[78]
Israel has demonstrated that it has the requisite maturity to do what would be required to achieve lasting peace, and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has demonstrated their ability to discharge their mission with carefully calibrated restraint. Prime Minister Sharon should be commended for his determination and courage to carry out the disengagement in the face of forceful and strident internal opposition.
Borders of Israel
The current borders of the State of Israel are the result both of war and of diplomatic agreements among Israel, her neighbors, and colonial powers. Some borders are internationally recognized while others are disputed.
According to interpretations of the Green Line of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Israel borders Lebanon in the north, the Golan Heights and Syria in the northeast, the West Bank and Jordan in the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt in the southwest. The border with Egypt is the international border demarcated in 1906 between United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire.