Rashida Tlaib Accused Of Trying To Provoke And Embarrass Israel By Israeli Minister
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🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Rashida Tlaib Accused Of Trying To Provoke And Embarrass Israel By Israeli Minister. The controversy surrounding the far left democrats trip to Israel continues this time with Rashida Tlaib requesting a humanitarian trip to visit her family in the West Bank.
Israel approved the trip under the condition that she not preach BDS, the Boycott Divest, Sanction Movement against Israel.
In her request Tlaib agreed not to promote boycotts and said she would respect any restrictions. Many praised her for the seemingly diplomatic approach to visit family. However after being approved she rejected the approval saying that her family would not want her to agree to restrictions in order to see her family.
In an itinerary reportedly from their offices they refer to Israel as Palestine. One has to wonder if Rashida was being genuine in her request or if the whole purpose of the trip was to generate press.
Israel interior minister said that it was a "provocation to embarrass Israel"
While I can respect Tlaib for refusing speech restrictions the current state of the Israel Palestine conflict does not make it easy to navigate and travel.
Many have criticized Tlaib for putting ideology over family.
The trip was initially meant to be Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib but the offer was revoked due to their support of the BDS movement. Trump was blamed for pressuring Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu into refusing their entry. Ocasio-Cortez has also refused to travel to Israel until the other far left Democrats are granted entry
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| 0:00.0 | I once traveled to Tel Aviv for a speaking event. |
| 0:03.4 | I was warned that by going to Israel, I would not be allowed to enter many other countries. |
| 0:09.0 | In fact, there are many countries. |
| 0:10.8 | I don't know the exact number, I think more than a dozen, that will refuse you entry |
| 0:15.0 | if they find out you have ever been to Israel. |
| 0:17.8 | And now we have today's story, which is seemingly drawing a lot of controversy. |
| 0:22.7 | Rashida Talayb, initially denied entry along with Ilhan Omar, was then approved to enter |
| 0:28.8 | after she sent a heartfelt letter saying she wanted to see her grandmother, who was |
| 0:32.8 | 90 years old, so they could pick figs, I believe. |
| 0:36.3 | Upon the approval, she then said, no, I refuse. |
| 0:40.8 | And there's a lot of back and forth. |
| 0:41.9 | I think there are some good points in defense of Rashida Talayb's position, although I do |
| 0:46.3 | think it's kind of absurd to make a humanitarian request, and then when they approve it kind |
| 0:50.8 | of deny it, which leads me to feel to believe that I think Rashida Talayb may have been |
| 0:55.7 | expecting to get rejected and wanted to make a point. |
| 0:59.0 | That's just my opinion. |
| 1:00.0 | I know this is a very complicated issue. |
| 1:02.0 | The reason I bring up the issue about going to Israel is that, look, there's a conflict |
| 1:06.8 | happening. |
| 1:07.8 | It's been happening for a long time between Israel, Palestine, the Arab world, whatever |
| 1:12.3 | side you fall on, there are people who have very heated in terms of their political position |
| 1:17.5 | on this. |
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