House Democratic leaders have condemned the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, but they have yet to address statements from two fellow Democrats who condemned Israel as an “occupation” and an “apartheid system” in the aftermath.
“I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said in an Instagram statement Monday. Not only did she mention Palestinian lives first, but she also added that she is “determined … to fight for a just future,” beginning with “lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
“As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,” Tlaib warned.
Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has faced criticism for keeping a Palestinian flag up in front of her congressional office. She also refused to answer when Fox News correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked her to condemn the Hamas slaughter of Israeli babies.
🚨WATCH: I asked Rep. Rashida Tlaib about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies heads, children being burned alive, and women being raped – she had nothing to say. pic.twitter.com/a3UvuvJ4hW
— Hillary Vaughn (@hillary__vaughn) October 11, 2023
Like Tlaib, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., mourned the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians, but also condemned Israel in her statement on the violence, urging the U.S. government to stop supporting the Jewish state.
“As part of achieving a just and lasting peace, we must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid,” she wrote.
Bush, unlike Tlaib, did explicitly condemn Hamas militants.
My statement on the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NIt9G7aLMI
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) October 8, 2023
The Daily Signal reached out to the offices of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass.; Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.; and Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. None of them responded to a request for comment by publication time.
The Daily Signal reached out to Jewish members of the Democratic caucus, including Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.; Susan Wild, D-Pa.; and Mike Levin, D-Calif., and they did not respond by publication time. Neither did former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., has defended Tlaib’s decision to keep the Palestinian flag outside her office, comparing it to the Danish flag he flies at his house. Hoyer did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
“Should your colleague Rashida Tlaib still have the Palestinian flag outside her office?”
Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer: “I fly a Danish flag at my house” pic.twitter.com/V7su2gDlFB— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 11, 2023
Reps. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., condemned Tlaib’s and Bush’s attacks on Israel.
“U.S. aid to Israel is and should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need,” Torres told Jewish Insider. “Shame on anyone who glorifies as ‘resistance’ the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It is reprehensible and repulsive.”
“Two of my colleagues called for America to end assistance to Israel, despite the countless images of Israeli children, women, men, and elderly, including Americans, murdered by radical Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists,” Gottheimer said in a statement obtained by The Hill. “It sickens me that while Israelis clean the blood of their family members shot in their homes, they believe Congress should strip U.S. funding to our democratic ally and allow innocent civilians to suffer.”
Neither Torres nor Gottheimer responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for further comment.
Democratic leaders such as Jeffries had condemned “the violent and ghastly attack by the terrorist organization Hamas on the Jewish people and the state of Israel.”
My statement on the violent, unprovoked and despicable terrorist attack by Hamas against the State of Israel. pic.twitter.com/vpj3X8EE2y
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) October 7, 2023
On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces reported having regained control over the border with the Gaza Strip, about 72 hours after Hamas terrorists blew through sections of the barrier and launched the invasion early Saturday morning, The Times of Israel reported.
Hamas militants attacked Israel on the last day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, as well as the Sabbath day of rest and the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. The terrorists slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis, including about 250 at a music festival, and kidnapped more than 100. The State Department confirmed Wednesday that 22 Americans had died in the attack.
“This morning, on Shabbat and a holiday, Hamas invaded Israeli territory and murdered innocent citizens, including children and the elderly,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter) Saturday. “Hamas has started a brutal and evil war.”
“They didn’t go for military targets. They went for civilians. They went for grandmothers, children, babies,” Israel Defense Forces’ international spokesman, Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, said in a video message Sunday. “The numbers are unprecedented.”
“The style of attack is barbaric,” Hecht added. “In a way, this is our 9/11.”
Hamas militants shot civilians at bus stops, on roads, and in their cars, photos show, according to Israeli experts who spoke to the Times of Israel. Videos reportedly show Israeli civilians, including women and children, getting abducted and taken to Gaza. Two videos raise concerns of sexual assault or rape.
An Israel Defense Forces commander told journalists that soldiers found beheaded babies in the carnage of Hamas terrorists.
Israeli forces have launched airstrikes into Gaza, preparing for an assault to root out Hamas in response to the horrific terrorist incursion.
President Joe Biden has unequivocally stood with Israel in the attack’s aftermath, though critics have claimed that Biden’s negotiations with Iran—including a $6 billion prisoner swap—emboldened Tehran, which supports and finances Hamas.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Tyler O’Neil.
This is what evil looks like and its repulsive, just their pictures make me sick, I am sick of watching these two and others like them Puke on America!
Neither one should be in any political office in America. In fact we’d be better off if they’d go live in Palestine or Iran, etc. And stay there.
How hard would it have been to simply say, “We all mourn for those suffering in this conflict.” It would at least show a modicum of empathy for those killed, maimed, tortured, and make to watch as their babies were decapitated.
Level Gaza, I say. Residents were given fair warning to leave. And this is war, after all. No faction goes unharmed, unfortunately; innocents will suffer. But, as happened to ISIS, Hamas must be obliterated. Then they’ll have to watch out for Hezbollah, also funded by Iran.
I wonder how many of these savages crossed our borders…be watchful!
Biden’s foolish outlook on the problems of the world has been lifelong. He has been wrong on just about everything. He is a failure. He is in way over his head. There is not one in his administration that has a clue or the desire or the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing, ever. America’s light has been extinguished by Biden and his kind. Hopefully there is a tiny spark waiting to ignite our lamp once again so that hope will return. God help us.
These “Free Speech” DENIERS Always Look for a “Free Speech” PLATFORM to Spew their Threats and Hate towards Israel, I bet they would scream “Bloody Murder” if THEY happened to be “targeted” ! . . . They’re both Hypocrites!
Someone needs to
Send her back in a pine box to the sh*t hole she crawled out of
The treasonous traitors in the White House support these Socialist/Communist in Congress and Senate.
Each one of them has Violated their Oath of Office, Ethics, and the U.S. Constitution which DEMANDS they be removed and prosecuted.
The Fascist liberals always running off at the mouth that ‘No One Is Above The Law’ yet they VIOLATE it EVERY DAY with the Communist Fake News Media supporting them.
The CRIMINAL Socialist/Communist COWARDS are protecting Socialist/Communist CRIMINAL COWARDS. Look at how the Socialist/Communist COWARD DOJ has protected Dictator Beijing biden for DECADES and is GUILTY just like Communist harris, and the Socialist/Communist squad.
They can ALL get OUT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA and go live in Communist China where they belong or Iran. PROSECUTE and DEPORT THEM ALL TO DEVILS ISLAND.
They would fit right in.
We now see the results of 70 years of pacifying and appeasement and money poured into a sink hole West shut it’s eyes to what was sneering into it’s face and hoped for it to go away Only it didn’t and appetite of the beast grew There is no one willing to take it on We now have a beastie of our own that no one dares to call by it’ right name
There is NO occupation. Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians. It is theirs yet they did nothing with it. Cannot compare to the Jews who made the desert bloom in Israel. Instead of taking pride in their land and working to make it prosper, the Palestinians chose to appoint the terrorists Hamas to be their leaders. Hamas uses them as scapegoats, making them human shields (which wouldn’t work but does because Israel values ALL lives so it works to warn residents of Gaza or anywhere they are fighting). The “shields” protect Hamas ppl and arms. Hamas also uses monies collected for Palestinians to buy weapons, not to help those for whom the money was appropriated.
As badly as i despise the crew or clan or whatever the hell they call themselves, it is very sad that we have enough “useful idiots” ( J Stalin ) to keep them in office.
You can bet your bottom dollar that if a conservative made any such statements, the socialist dems would go crazy trying to tar and feather the person that made such a statement.These communist morons are a total embarrassment to our country.
Get these radical racist anti Jewish and Christian Muslins out of our Constitutional US government and all US state governments. Enough is enough stop the insanity.
America’s enemy.
Horsewhipped then hung is the correct approach.
Of course Democrat leaders are not going to call her out because they agree with her. Many Democrat leaders and others in congress are also antisemitic.
Talib,Bush, and the others who for some reason hate our country.They should not have a voice, as any proven traitors, insurgents. Why is it OK for them who’ve proven time
They must be real good friends with that guy Joe Biden who is also anti-semitic and endorsed by neo-nazis and the kkk. Not to mention the attack by lowlies was orchestrated and engineered by Joe Biden (et al) along with every other devious malicious thing seen in the past 3 years for profit.
She is the Representative of My district, and she does not represent my values.Jerry Mandering includes my small neighborhood in Detroit, with Dearborn MI.