Ilhan Omar wanted the world to know that there was “no way in hell” that she would be attending the speech Israeli President Herzog is to deliver to a joint session of Congress. And then she proceeded to list the reasons for this decision, revealing certain misconceptions about the Jewish state that deserve to be noted. More on her tweet can be found here: “Ilhan Omar’s Unhinged Tweets Show How Confused She is About Israel,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, July 13, 2023:
In a clearly not-attention-seeking move, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar took to social media on Wednesday to announce to her 2.9 million followers that there is “no way in hell” she will watch Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to the US Congress next week.
Posting a series of tweets, Omar gave her reasons as to why Herzog won’t be graced with her cheerful presence, like how she refuses to watch a speech from “a President whose country has banned [her] and denied [Rashida Tlaib] the ability to see her grandma,” and because his address comes as the Israeli government is “essentially putting a nail in the coffin of peace and a two-state solution.”
And just to show how serious her tweets are, Omar added — all in block capitals — that Herzog should not be invited because the Israeli government “BARRED THE FIRST TWO MUSLIM WOMEN ELECTED TO CONGRESS FROM VISITING THE COUNTRY.”
Deranged ranting aside, the striking thing about Omar’s thread is just how confused she is about Israel.
For one thing, she claims that her fellow Democrat and “squad” member Rashida Tlaib was barred from visiting her grandmother in the West Bank. Fact check: Tlaib was allowed to see her grandmother but chose not to in order to protest Israel’s “oppressive conditions.”
While Israel back in 2019 barred Omar and Tlaib from entering the country to conduct what would clearly have been a political circus by visiting “oppressed Palestinians” in the West Bank, it later made an exception for Tlaib’s visiting her “grandmother in the West Bank” — a visit for which she claimed to pine. But having obtained that permission, about which she had made such a fuss, Tlaib decided not to take advantage of it, but preferred to continue meretriciously to invoke her “I can’t even visit my grandmother” lament against the Jewish state.
While she appears to grasp that there is a difference between Israel’s prime minister and president, she suggests that Herzog is some kind of shadowy shill for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Of course, if Omar knew as much about Israel as she thinks she does, she would know that Herzog ran against Netanyahu as head of the Labor Party and has also been the key figure pushing for watering down the controversial judicial reforms, which she dubs a “coup to centralize power and undermine checks on their power.”
Omar appears not to know that the man she is boycotting, President Herzog, is a longtime political opponent of Netanyahu, the man Omar loves to hate, and has spoken against the judicial reform proposal, which he has been trying to water down. But apparently that has made no impression on Ilhan Omar, who thinks all Israeli leaders, no matter what their policies, deserve to be boycotted.
Naturally, Omar lambastes Israel for last week’s Jenin raid, which she notes “killed at least a dozen people,” while failing to mention the fact they were all members of terrorist organizations. She additionally blames the failure to establish a Palestinian state on Israel, apparently blissfully unaware of how many peace deals the Palestinians have turned their noses up at….
The Jenin raid by the IDF, Omar is careful not to mention, was undertaken after a series of deadly attacks on Israeli civilians by terrorists based in Jenin; most of them were members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The IDF entered the Jenin camp, scrupulously trying to avoid civilian casualties, and killed twelve fighters, all of them, by the Palestinians’ own admission, members of terror groups, with at least eight of them belonging to the PIJ. The main goal of the 44-hour campaign was to locate and destroy all of the PIJ’s weapons, hidden throughout the camp, with an especially large cache hidden underneath the camp’s mosque. None of this is mentioned by Omar, who presents the Jenin raid as an example of Israel’s motiveless malignity, attacking innocent Palestinian civilians in their homes.
In her tweet, Omar yet again blamed Israel for the failure to establish a Palestinian state, still unaware that Israel has repeatedly offered generous peace deals to the Palestinians – in 2000, 2001, and 2008 — but on every occasion was turned down. Arafat rejected Ehud Barak’s proposal, just as Mahmoud Abbas turned down the even more generous offer made by Ehud Olmert, that included having Israel relinquish possession of the Old City, placing it under international control.
Omar does not want her followers to know that Israel has given Rashida Tlaib permission to visit her grandmother on the West Bank, and it is Tlaib herself who has ignored the offer, in order to continue making Israel look bad, as supposedly keeping her from visiting her “beloved grandma.” Omar does not care enough to find out that President Herzog opposes the judicial reform proposal, and on almost every domestic policy question in Israel differs from Prime Minister Netanyahu. Omar wants her 2.9 million followers on Twitter to think that it is Israel that has prevented a peace deal with the Palestinians, when it is the Palestinians who have repeatedly turned down — walked out on — every Israeli proposal for peace. Finally, she’s determined not to listen to any Israeli, no matter their political persuasion, and ideally would like everyone in Congress to join her in her boycott. Too bad, because if she were to listen to the eminently reasonable President Herzog, she just might learn something.
Walter Sieruk says
That ignorant Muslim politician , Rashida Talib is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for. Therefore Tlaib is ,in essence, un-American . As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
Wow ! “My phone must had really been off the hook” ,again, when I keyboard in the name of the wrong stealth jihadist regarding this jihadwatch article . Of course I should in typed in the name of Ilhan Omar about being so very ignorant about the State of Israel . Nevertheless , both of those stealth jihadist politicians are dangerously and despicably anti-Israel and likewise anti- America .Still , neither of them are honest enough to come right out and admit that they hate the United States Consititution and greatly favor Sharia to be established in the US.
Walter Sieruk says
That stealth jihadist politician is ,indeed , very ignorant about the Jewish State of Israel which she hates Islamic malice-filled vicious and would like to see Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic “state” her wish and desire for that to occur will never happen.
Because God favors Israel so much that she is special treasure so much so that He will not let her be destroyed
The reason why this is so be because according to the Bible the Jews have all the land that now makes up the State of Israel ,including the West Bank by Divine Right. As found in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105: 7-11. .
Furthermore, the Jews should have all this land by historic rights. As seen in First Kings 4; 20,21,24,25. 8:55, 56.
As Psalm 135:4 reads “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself , Israel for His special treasure.”
[N.K.J.V.]
bill says
It should be named wilful ignorance as she only accepts ideas about Israel, that fit her agenda. Anything that does not she ignores. Typical of Muslims and leftists
somehistory says
Ah, yes, i elmi, alias i omar…is ignorant. The one thing she does know is how to lie. She lies and lies and lies and those who “follow” her, may or may not know she is lying; but it makes no difference.
The ugly snake puts much importance on being mozlum. As if Israel doesn’t have any of those foul creatures within their borders of their tiny nation, she has to point out that ‘two mozlum women”…elected by fraudulent means and practices to Congress in order to destroy the “miserable house from within,” were kept out of the country.
The snake omits the valid reasons she was “barred” from entering. She wants it to be thought by her “followers” that it was due to the fact of her mozlumness and not what she and her fellow snake planned.
Israel has an abundant supply of mozlums….many of them women….and many have had places in the government there. If being mozlum, if being female, was what it took to be “barred” from being in Israel, that nation would have a much smaller population.
More people need to wake up to what i elmi, alias i omar, and her fellow mozlum snake are doing in Congress and boot them out.
i omar should be booted all the way to prison for her many crimes. Instead, she gets paid big buck to lie and lie and lie and not listen to people who lead other nations as her job requires.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t think she’s ignorant of Israel. I think she knows the party line as a muslimah, and is following through. A lot easier when she has Comrade Rashida beside her
I just hope that in a GOP Congress, she’s hunted down for immigration fraud involved in smuggling in her brusband
somehistory says
I agree. She knows that she’s lying about Israel.
I’ve heard her speak about other stuff, though, and she has a lot of ignorance between her ears.
She needs to be arrested, charged, tried and serve a long, long sentence and be offered a trip back to whence she came through fraud.
abu taleb says
Muslims “refuse” to believe the truth about Israel or other non muslims, or any evil done in the name of Islam. They will lie, lie and lie because they know if they admit the truth, Islam will no longer exist as it will shows how evil and incompetent their Allah is.
Just like the current leftists in the west, muslims do not bury their heads in the sand, they get offensive by lying and violence toward those who tell the truth.
Hoi Polloi says
If we had justice for all, this snake would have been caged and deported.
zeca says
She hates Israel and the Jewish people. That’s why she can’t differentiate between Herzog and Bibi. Even though she knows the difference, her perpetual goal is to bash Israel.
James Lincoln says
Why is it that every time that I see a picture of Ilhan Omar, I feel like I’m going to vomit?
somehistory says
For the same reason I try not to look at her photographs. Puke, vomit, upchuck, ralph, hurl…more effective than syrup of ipecac.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You’re probably picturing her & her brusband doing the…. ?
James Lincoln says
Ugh!
angelo barbato says
One is supposed to love your fellow man, But in this instance I’ll make an exception.
Puzzled says
The entire Universe is stupider because she and allahaha akbar are/was in it.
Islammy has nothing to add to civilization.
Thomas Hulting says
Ilhan Omar is a REFLECTION of the District 5 Minneapolis voters who KNOWINGLY put her in Congress!
Jerry says
To establish the true “Palestinian” agenda please read carefully the last paragraph of Article Seven of the Hamas Covenant (English Translation at avalon dot law dot yale dot edu) which clearly reveals that the “Palestinia Dispute with Israel” is no dispute at all. There is no.mention of occupation or land.
The true agenda is simply the Islamic plan and hope for the day when genocide by inflicted not only on every Zionist or Israeli Jew in Israel, but until Mislim murder each snd every Jrw of this planet, to the last one, with non remaining.
Wellington says
She’s not only ignorant of Israel but of so much else. The total tonnage of what the despicable Omar does not know would even tax an omniscient deity in the effort to fathom her almost bottomless shallowness.