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The Tour That Israel Should Arrange For Tlaib & Omar
Loris & Jerome Marcus ~ July 30, 2019
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) say that they are going to Israel and "Palestine" in order "to learn" about the region. Israel has granted the women permission to enter the country, notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence that their trip has only one purpose: to strengthen the hand of people and organizations that share these women's desire to attack Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.

But just because Israel has let them in doesn't mean its leaders have to sit passively by while Tlaib and Omar use the country as a backdrop for their personally designed advertisements for Hamas and Hezbollah; their accusations of apartheid, genocide, and all other things repugnant; and their program to eliminate Jewish self-determination.

On the contrary, as any fair-minded person knows, none of the things these women claim to believe about Israel is actually correct. So Israel has this one potent weapon on its side: the t***h. Israel should use it with these two h**e-filled politicians. Israel should invite these American officials to the places that make it absolutely clear that everything important they claim to believe about Israel and its enemies is wrong.

Here's a suggested itinerary:
The SodaStream factory
Moved from the disputed territories because of vicious BDS movement protests, where it employed more than 100 Arabs working alongside Jews -- at wages far in excess of what Arabs could earn in Jordan, Gaza, Egypt, or any Arab town in the territories themselves -- SodaStream insisted on continuing to employ as many of its Arab workers as possible in its new factory inside the Green Line. Efforts by those boycotting Israel had exactly one effect on these people: They helped to dis-employ dozens of Arabs who are not able to reach the new location.

The Hamas tunnels
Let Israel help Tlaib and Omar "learn" by seeing firsthand what Hamas has done with millions of dollars it poached from international aid sent to Gaza, which was instead spent constructing tunnels designed for use by Hamas "fighters" -- men trained not to confront enemy combatants, but to invade towns inside Israel proper and murder civilians in cold blood. While they're at it, they might want to visit the thousands of dunams of scorched Israeli farmland caused by the weekly "peaceful protests" along Gaza's border with Israel.

The city of Haifa
Tlaib and Omar should be brought to Haifa, where the population of Israeli citizens is more than 50 percent Arab. Let them talk to Arabs in the Haifa city council and meet with Arabs on the faculty of Haifa University. Let them ask these people how many of them want to live instead in the Judenrein state that the Palestinian Authority wants to create.

Ir David
Omar and Tlaib should join with other tourists walking on the road taken 2,000 years ago by Jews on their way to the Second Temple. Then they should be asked to explain how they can support the Palestinian Authority's claim to Jerusalem and its absurd assertion -- adopted by the great history scholars at the United Nations -- that Jerusalem has no historical connection to the Jewish people.

When Yasser Arafat tried that one on Bill Clinton, the Democratic US president remembered enough of the gospels he'd learned in Sunday school to know that if Jesus had preached outside the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, it was ridiculous to argue that there had never been a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

Ir David is located in a neighborhood that Arabs call "Silwan" -- a name they gave the place after they drove out its original residents: Yemeni Jews who built some of the first homes outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, which these Jews called Shiloach.

While they're in Jerusalem they can meet with George Karra, an Arab justice on the Israeli Supreme Court. When he was a trial court judge, Karra presided over the criminal trial of former president of Israel Moshe Katsav -- and convicted him. (Israel doesn't have trial by jury.)

Tlaib and Omar can be invited to wonder when was the last time a Jew presided over a criminal trial of an Arab in any country in the world, much less when a Jew was given, and exercised, the power to send an Arab former president of any Arab country to jail.

The Rami Levi Supermarket in Gush Etzion, where Arabs and Jews work and shop together, and where every aisle clerk and cashier earns the same salary, regardless of religion. And the Malcha Mall in Jerusalem itself, where Arabs and Jews shop and eat together every single day. Here, Tlaib and Omar can see Jewish apartheid as it really is -- that is to say, as it isn't at all.

Rawabi, just up the street from Ramallah. No Jews are allowed into this fabulously wealthy Arab enclave just outside of Ramallah. But the beautiful mall, gracious apartments, clean streets, and uninterrupted electricity, gas, and water show just how bitter the oppression wrought upon Arabs by their Jewish neighbors really is.

Of course, residence in Rawabi is available only for those people approved, one at a time, by the Palestinian Authority, just as access to well-stocked stores is available in Havana only to members of the ruling party. Oppression of Arabs in all the towns that don't have the advantages available in Rawabi? Yes, indeed. By Jews? Not so much (as in not at all).

After they've completed this short itinerary, Tlaib and Omar should then go on their way to wh**ever Potemkin villages of oppression, unemployment, and misery their Arab hosts will have prepared for them.

By all means, let Tlaib and Omar use these scenes as sets for the scripts they have no doubt already written in support of their well-known anti-Israel and antisemitic views. Surely, there will be quite a few "Benjamins" handed to these gentlewomen by wealthy supporters hoping to ensure a horrific public-relations' disaster for Israel.

But at least Israel will have footage of these women being confronted by the t***h. Some day, to some people, that might make a difference.

If, as it seems likely, Tlaib and Omar refuse to see the facts on the ground that give the lie to their accusations, it would still be fun to have someone go with two empty chairs or seats in a tour bus, and take the trip that these women were invited to take, but were too afraid to go on. That fear of reality is itself a very important fact.

Carol Kelly

Pardon my ignorance, but is that on their itinerary? With Pelosi? And we’re paying for
this trip when they should be visiting with their constituents? Please?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Too BAD THEY CAN'T BE FORCED TO GO ON THE TRIP

Noraa Loc: Kansas

They will see only what they want to see to further their h**e. Welcome to OPP!

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Here’s Where Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Should Go When They Visit Israel

Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib better start holding their ears, because it’s well documented that Palestinians are treated considerably better in Israel than in Lebanon.

By Roger Simon
July 22, 2019

It’s been all over the news that “Squad” stalwarts Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tliab are planning a trip to Israel. Whether this will be at U.S. taxpayers’ expense is unclear.

The two women have shown their affinity for anti-Semitism, so it’s a virtual certainty their visit will be a staged opportunity to accuse Israel of being N**i Germany and apartheid South Africa rolled into one, or possibly something even more monstrous if they can figure out what that is. Doubtless, an international press crew will traipse after them to record their every calumny.

Israel—a country where there is press freedom unlike, say, Somalia—has already made clear they will admit this pair. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t supervise their itinerary to make it more, shall we say, educational. Since I’ve visited Israel several times, mostly for longer stays than the usual brief congressional junket, allow me to make some suggestions for their itinerary.

Israel has been in a war zone since its founding, most recently near its Syrian border where a non-stop civil war has been going on for years. An estimated half-million are dead and even more innocent civilians wounded by Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s forces, plus various Islamic terror groups, Russians, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah, etc.

So a visit to the Zvi Medical Center in Safed in northern Israel would be in order. There they could learn just which country is caring for the wounded of the Syrian civil war. Thousands of Syrians, many of them injured children, have been treated by Israeli doctors and then returned to Syria in secret so the despotic Syrian government and jihadists do not punish them for seeking treatment from the “enemy.”

Israelis, of course, risk their own lives bringing in the wounded Syrians in the first place. They also treat Syrians—mostly women—with emotional trauma from war.

Since the congresswomen are up by the border, it’s only a short drive to one of the high points overlooking Lebanon. It’s an astonishing sight. You look one way—toward Israel—and see nothing but blooming farms. You turn toward Lebanon and see nothing but barren hills with a sprinkling of Hezbollah f**gs and gun emplacements.

Why the disparity, since the land is basically the same? The congresswomen would probably explain it as due to Israel’s supposed oppression of the Palestinian refugees who live by the border or something like that.

They’d better start holding their ears, because it’s well documented that Palestinians are treated considerably better in Israel than in Lebanon. A 2017 Associated Press report tells us, but not the congresswomen apparently, that “Lebanese law restricts Palestinians’ ability to work in several professions, including law, medicine, and engineering, and bars them from receiving social security benefits. In 2001, the Lebanese parliament also passed a law prohibiting Palestinians from owning property.”

None of this is true in Israel, of course, where a Palestinian served on the Supreme Court. Actually, he was the second one. Would Omar and Tliab like to meet him? Probably not. Would they like to meet a Jewish judge at one of the 45 Islamic countries? Oh, wait. None of them have Jews any more.

Okay, well, then how about a visit to one of the Israeli universities, where the number of Israeli Arab PhD’s have more than doubled in a decade? Too academic? Not relevant? Okay, I understand.

This is about personal freedom for the Palestinian people, right? They’re oppressed. Like L***Q people—the congresswomen support them, I know. (They say they do, anyway.). Why don’t we compare the freedom of those folks in Tel Aviv to those in Ramallah, or anywhere else in the Arab world?

I know, that Tel Aviv was named the most gay-friendly city in the world doesn’t count. After all, it was only Newsweek and we know they’re desperate for readers. And all those gay Palestinians who slipped out of the West Bank to live more comfortably in Tel Aviv are just shills or maybe even Mossad agents. These congresswomen don’t want to talk to them.

So onwards. How about jobs and the treatment of the working class (Arab and Israeli) compared to the rest of the Middle East? Okay, skip that too. It’s all too boring and taking up too much of the congresswomen’s precious time.

Instead, they must go to someone with real knowledge, like Mahmoud Abbas, who has been president of the Palestinian Authority since 2005. He knows the score and will give the congresswomen the information (or is it propaganda?) they need. But be sure to admire the cut of his Savile Row suit, because U.S. and European taxpayers have been paying for several closets full of them for more than a decade.

Above all, the representatives should not, under any circumstances, go anywhere near Yad Vashem. What they’ll see there is almost as bad as El Paso. Almost. After all, on the conclusion of their trip, they will no doubt assure us the real Holocaust is on our southern border and Donald Trump is causing it. That other affair back in the 1940s was unfortunate, of course, but minor by comparison.

One last thing: I know Omar and Tlaib want to boycott everything Israeli, but for the sake of everyone’s relatives, and maybe even for theirs one day, they must omit learning about Israeli cancer research. Israel is one of the world leaders in this area. Only this week they made an advance in one of the most dreadful of cancers, pancreatic.

If the two congresswomen manage to avoid all this and come back to the United States repeating the same tripe they’ve been spouting about Israel and the Middle East for their short political careers, it will be clear to the public that they actually are what they accuse others of being: propagandists for lies.

Roger L. Simon, the co-founder and CEO emeritus of PJ Media, is an award-winning novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

Noraa Loc: Kansas

How about r****ts to the extreme!

Carol Kelly

Is anyone in doubt of what they are. They’ll return to spew more venom on Israel,
having “seen for themselves”. You mentioned a short Congressional tour...that sounds
like a taxpayer funded trip. Should we also buy their wardrobe for the journey?

Noraa Loc: Kansas

I'm sure we are.

Big dog

With any luck, the P L O will kidnap them.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Since it will really be a waste of taxpayer dollars, they can email my uncle instead. He's a rabbi and we've been there quite a few times. Something few know, in a competition between our snipers and theirs (there hasn't been one) we're about equal although quality of weapon should go to them.