Fresh from escaping House censure, Rashida Tlaib doubles down on her anti-semitic rhetoric. She claims her stance is “aspirational” on behalf of Palestine.

First, she posted a video ad on her Twitter/X feed. Take a very good look. Watch it all. 

.@POTUS, the majority of the American people are not with you on this one. #CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/rV97zrMkad

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) November 3, 2023

Did you see what I and many others saw? Yep, that is pro-Palestine protests in Tlaib’s district chanting “from the rivers to the sea.”

Hi congresswoman, hey kind of a newb to all of this. What does this mean exactly? Thanks for any clarity you can provide. pic.twitter.com/aKDBwMqgJG

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 3, 2023

Senator Kyrsten Sinema responded thusly. 

We hear “from the river to the sea” chanted at US protests. It’s on posters, even projected on university buildings

Here’s a map

See what “from the river to the sea” means

It means eradicating the state of Israel
It’s about eliminating Jews

It’s hate speech

It’s antisemitism pic.twitter.com/8d55SAom2F

— Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) November 3, 2023

And then, hours later, Rashida Tlaib responded with her version of “clarity” on the matter. 

“From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate,” Tlaib wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.”

What abhorrent gaslighting! First, Tlaib is on record in multiple instances for her disdain and hatred of Israel. She has continuously claimed that Israel still occupies Palestine. Except they don’t. Israel pulled out of Gaza and the West Bank lock, stock, and barrel over twenty years ago. It’s more than a little difficult to occupy a place when you aren’t actually …there. 

Secondly, please explain how peaceful coexistences means Hamas invading Israel, and brutally murdering innocent women and children. 

Third, calling for the erasure of Israel is in the Palestinian charter! 

In 1966, the Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, the father of the country’s current dictator, said: “We shall only accept war and the restoration of the usurped land … to oust you, aggressors, and throw you into the sea for good.”

Hamas, whose gunmen killed 1,400 people on 7 October, claim the slogan in their rejection of Israel.

“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea,” says the organisation’s 2017 constitution

Fourth, this phrase has been used by Hamas and other terrorist organizations for years. 

The phrase was originated by Palestinian nationalists in the 1960s, when the entire Palestinian movement sought Israel’s elimination. Mainstream Palestinian groups dropped the phrase after Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized one another subsequent to the 1993 Oslo Accords, but it was then adopted by Islamists, including the Hamas terrorist group.

Yet, now we have Rashida Tlaib claiming all this rhetoric is just “aspirational” and she just really wants peace and love for all, and too many will accept her rhetoric as truth. Except this information regarding Hamas paints her as a gaslighting liar. 

A Biden administration official said on Friday that efforts to get Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza, a process that began on Wednesday, had been held up by a Hamas attempt to get its own wounded fighters included among those to be escorted into Egypt through the Rafah gate.

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Hamas rules Gaza politically and also has an armed wing whose fighters are embedded within the enclave’s civilian population.

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The official said that Hamas had repeatedly provided to Israel, the United States and Egypt lists of Palestinians who were wounded and should be allowed to depart with the Americans and others. But vetting showed that many of them, the official said, were Hamas fighters.

The official said that about a third of the wounded Palestinians on the first list were Hamas fighters and that allowing them to exit Gaza was unacceptable to officials in Egypt, the United States and Israel. The delays continued for some time, the official said, because Hamas kept offering lists that turned out to include its members.

Oh, so Hamas thought they could sneak some of their terrorist buddies into Egypt? No wonder Egypt kept the borders closed for so long!

I do find it of note that The NY Times actually admits that yes, Hamas terrorists are embedded among the civilian population of Gaza and the West Bank. Something that The Squad and Tlaib in particular refuse to address. 

But Rashida claims she just wants “Aspirational” peaceful coexistence! RIIGHT. Pull all the other legs. There is a planned rally for Palestine to be held in Washington D.C. today. You can darned well bet Tlaib will be right in the middle of the action. 

And it’s a sure bet that she will once again play to the cheap seats and claim that calling for Israel to be wiped off the map is peacefully “aspirational.” 

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click