LOS ANGELES.–House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, 53, showed what life would be like if Democrats retake the House majority in November, with 48-year-old Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) continuing Iran-backed Palestinian protests in the U.S. Congress. Jeffries defended Tlaib’s right to hold a sign during 74-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 24 speech to a joint session of Congress. Tlaib practically threw a fit watching the warm welcome and enthusiastic applause Netanayahu received in Congress. Tlaib held up her sign “guilt and genocide” to blame Israel for the Gaza War that seeks to eliminate the terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Tlaib supports Palestinians over Israelis whether they are terrorists of not. Before Tlaib was in Congress, older members watched Palestinians dance in the streets when Islamic terrorists struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.
If Jeffries becomes House Speaker, the House knows that he will join the anti-Semitic lobby part of the Black caucus that likes to blame Jews for the woes in the Black community. “Rashida Tlaib is an elected member of Congress,” Jeffries said at a press briefing March 25, saying Tlaib had a right to express the anti-Semitism of her constituents.”She has a responsibility to her district in the same way that’s I have a responsibility to my district,” Jeffries said, knowing that some in her district spew anti-Semitism, pretending that it’s due to Israeli government policy. Netanyahu pointed out in his speech that the U.S. and Israeli fight terrorism wherever they find it, realizing that it destroys civilization wherever it’s found. Tlaib likes to hide behind Israeli government policy but she subscribes to the radical Islamist policy that seeks to exterminate Jews wherever they find them.
Tlaib and other anti-Semites in Congress know that Netanyahu speaks the truth about Iran and radical Islam, seeking to take over the Middle East but to exterminate Jews as a continuation of the Hitler’s Final Solution to murder Jews all over the world. Israel stands a beacon of Western democracy in the heart of the Middle East where Palestinians, the name given by Yasser Arafat in 1964 to Arabs living in the Holy Land. Tlaib claims her ancestors held sovereignty in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Tlaib forgets that Arabs, Christians and Jews in the Holy Land lived under Ottoman Empire and British rule for over 500 years. At no time did Tlaib’s Arab ancestors hold sovereignty in the Holy Land. Yet the Palestinian narrative is the Jews stole Palestinian sovereign land when they fought the 1948 War of independence to establish the state of Israel.
Jeffries doesn’t want a lesson in history of the Holy Land, he wants to blame Jews for the mishaps of Palestinians that, for the last 76-years, have turned the desolate British Mandate of Palestine from a desert wasteland into a vibrant, technologically advanced democracy. Tlaib and other anti-Semites in Congress can’t tolerate U.S. backing a Jewish homeland since the Nazi Holocaust and end of WW II. Jeffries and Tlaib know that thousands of Americans paid the ultimate price to save the world from the atrocities of the Hitler’s Third Reich. Tlaib thinks that Hitler had it right to exterminate Jews. She agrees with Hamas Holocaust-like Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, raping, torturing and murdering 1,200 Jews, all because Hamas is chartered to destroy the Jewish State. So Jeffries thinks that it’s OK for Tlaib’s or her district to agree with the Nazi Holocaust and extermination of Jews.
Jeffries, who hopes to lead the House, got a lesson in history from Netanyahu, knowing that every successive U.S. government since WW II has supported the Jewish homeland. When Britain handed the British Mandate of Palestine to Jews in 1948, it was precisely to give Jews who survived the Nazi Holocaust a homeland. Palestinians like Tlaib write their own history of the Holy Land but Tlaib knows the Jews inhabited the Holy Land for over 5,000 years. So when the British gave the mandate to Israel in 1948, it was with that history in mind. Tlaib argues that Jews have no business in the West Bank, Golan Heights or other parts of Arab territory when Israel had faced several wars of annihilation since 1948. Israel rightfully annexed the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Golan Heights after the 1967 Six Day War, eventually returning Gaza to Palestinians.
Whatever Muslim population lives in Tlaib’s district, it’s her responsibility as member to Congress to tell her constituents the history of the Holocaust and formation of the state of Israel. She should tell herself and her district that Palestinians have done everything possible to exterminate Jews in the Holy Land, following the radical Islamist philosophy of Iran’s Aytatollah Ali Khanmenei that backs anti-Semitic terror groups like Gaza’s Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, all of whom continue Hitler’s Final Solution. Listen to a brilliant and scholarly head of state like Netanyahu was enough to see anti-Semites like Tlaib go apoplectic at his latest speech to a joint session of Congress. Jeffries shows he doesn’t understand the history, but, more importantly, the responsibility of every member of Congress to fight terrorism wherever’s it’s found.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma
