President Joe Biden, 78, now contends with his party’s left wing, especially Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), whose family comes from the Jerusalem and the West Bank. Tlaib is perhaps the most anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian person in Congress, putting her family’s ancestry over her oath or U.S. national security. When it comes to Hamas terrorists in Gaza, whose loyalty lies more with Tehran than so-called Palestinians, Tlaib seeks nothing short than to cut U.S. foreign aid to Israel. Tlaib, like Hamas and other radical Palestinians, see Israel as a terrorist state because since its founding in 1948 they have not allowed Palestinians the right of return after the war of independence. Tlaib subscribes to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] movement designed to punish Israel economically for not allowing Palestinians to claim back land in Israel.
Biden finds himself in the center of the cyclone when it comes to dealing with his party’s left wing, that bounces from Black Lives Matter’s Critical Race Theory, now, as the wind blows, to defending Palestinian rights. Truth be told, Tlaib and her colleagues, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ilana Pressley (D-Mass) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), have all aligned with Hamas in their mission to destroy Israel. Israel becomes Tlaib’s latest scapegoat when she’s not ranting about “systemic racism,” something on which she agrees with Biden. “Rashid Tlaib—where’s Rashid? I’ll tell you what, Rashid, I what to say to you that I admire your intellect. I admire your passion and I admire your concern for so many other people,” Biden said, mispronouncing her name “Rahid,” when it’s Rashida. Biden clearly likes placating his vociferous left wing, ready to pounce on him.
Democrat Party’s new leftist movement doesn’t understand, or care, about the strategic importance of Israel to U.S. national security. Whether admitted to or not by Tlaib and others, Israel operates like the U.S.’s 51st state, where the U.S. armed service have a seamless relationship with the Jewish State. It irks Tlaib and her squad to know end that the U.S. gives billions of aid to Israel but it’s largely to enhance U.S. national security in the Middle East. Whether admitted to or not by Tlaib, she sees Israel, just like her parents, as an illegitimate state, working behind the scenes with Hamas or other radical groups to destroy Israel. Tlaib’s ancestors had no problem living under Ottoman rule for 600 years but didn’t like when the British took over the Holy Land in 1922. Living under Israeli rule since 1948 has for many Arabs been intolerable.
Tlaib and the squad march in lockstep with Hamas, not because they endorse rockets, suicide bombings, car rammings, stabbings, etc., but because they believe Israel has no right to exist. When Osama Bin Laden flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001 Palestinians danced in the streets, celebrating the widespread destruction in New York and Washington, D.C. So, when it comes to understanding who’s the rock solid U.S. ally, the Pentagon and State Department know it’s Israel. Palestinians have a single-minded focus to destroy Israel, certainly the goal of Hamas. When it comes to the Ramallah, West Bank-Palestinian Authority {PA] led by 85-year-old Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas now thinks they speak for the Palestinian people. No U.S. government, or the U.N. for that matter, has ever engaged diplomatically with Hamas.
Biden finds himself in the unenviable place of placating his party’s left wing, at the same time dealing with the real politik of the Middle East. Biden knows as long as Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israel, the prospects of a ceasefire are dim, no matter what the destruction. Hamas’s 56-year-old Leader Ismail Haniyeh is committed to Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s goal of destroying Israel. Hamas propaganda tells Gaza citizens daily that they’re one tunnel or rocket away from conquering Israel, destroying the Zionists and returning Palestinians back to Israel. Biden calls Tlaib a “fighter” but he disagrees with her anti-Semitic, anti-Israel tropes calling Israel an “Apartheid state.” Israel has Arab members in its Knesset or parliament, showing how pluralistic the government. Hamas in Gaza or PA in Ramallah have no Jews in their governments.
Tlaib and her squad are the first to call Israel an “Apartheid” state or, for that matter, to call their own government “systemically racist.” Where’s the real racism when Islamic countries exclude all groups that don’t subscribe to the Muslim faith? Even within the Muslime faith, the Saudi Grand Mufti considers Shiites, largely from Iran, apostates, showing no tolerance even within the Muslim faith. Today it’s Palestine, tomorrow it’s the racist U.S. government, persecuting African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans. Tlaib and her squad have contempt for Israel but not as much as the contempt they have for their own government. So when the public tries to figure out why the hatred of Israel, it’s another case of the same hatred directed at the U.S. government. When the dust settles in Gaza, Tlaib and the squad will go back to blaming the U.S. for systemic racism.
