Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion in Gaza despite Israel denying fault.

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on Tuesday that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion that day in Gaza, an accusation that sparked political backlash against her from Republicans as Israel denies fault.

Tlaib joined thousands of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during a solidarity rally hosted by the left-leaning group Jewish Voice for Peace at the National Mall. She was visibly emotional, at times pausing her speech to openly weep and criticizing lawmakers who have not backed a ceasefire resolution.

    • @PizzaMan
      3•1 year ago

      I never implied it did.

      You did, because you stated that:

      If Israel stopped fighting tomorrow, what do you think would happen?

      Implying that the only thing Israel is doing is fighting. It’s not, it’s doing a hell of a lot more than that. It’s doing apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

      If you’re saying that Israel should stop doing those things and instead only focus on defense then I agree with you. But you’re acting like Isreal is completely innocent.

      That’s not called “apartheid” anywhere else in the world, only when people are looking for a word to demonize Jews with.

      Yeah, that’s not true.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_apartheid

      The term was started in South Africa, being critical of the white people in charge.

            • Karyoplasma
              0•1 year ago

              Have you heard of a country that didn’t have military court or military tribunals? Can you name such a country? Is the country in the room with us now?

              Whataboutism, but I’ll bite. No, I haven’t heard of a country that colonized inhabited land and unequally punished the people they oppressed and then didn’t need to concede that what they were doing was wrong. Weird how that epiphany always comes after the colonists get what they want tho. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

              Military courts are supposed to govern your armed forces, not any rando you don’t like.

              but of course Israel doesn’t use its intranational civilian courts to try Palestinians in Palestine, that wouldn’t make any sense.

              A Palestine state does not exist unless you equate Palestine to the Gaza prison camp guarded by Israel and maybe parts of the West Bank that Israel occupies against international law since I-don’t-even-know-how-long. A convenient excuse for their racist system.

              What it boils down to is that in a Zionist state, like the Likud strives for Israel to be, Jewish law only applies to Jews and not to the “gentile”.

          • @SoleInvictus
            -1•1 year ago

            I always laugh when people fall over themselves trying to claim Israel isn’t an apartheid state. It’s basically matches the textbook definition of an apartheid state at this point. Even the many Israelis with a conscience call it out as an apartheid state. There’s no legitimate uncertainty there, only propaganda, lies, and ignorance.

              • @SoleInvictus
                -1•1 year ago

                Oh yeah, I love whataboutisms! They’re absolutely a valid way to… deflect from the topic actually being discussed.

                • @Ya_Boy_Skinny_Penis
                  1•1 year ago

                  Somebody doesn’t know what whataboutism is. I do love how you couldn’t answer the question though, proved my point very effectively

        • @kaonashi
          1•1 year ago

          What are Israel’s borders? It seems like it conveniently places its borders in one place when it wants to selectively disenfranchise 5 of the 7 millions Arabs, and another when it wants to place settlements.