Israel Bans Omar/Tlaib

[Dill]

(08-16-2019, 02:06 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: And Tlaib won't go even though they allowed her to visit her family....

I guess her grandma isn't all that important. All Israel is asking for is for her to not bad talk them while she's there.
Makes sense cause she's not going to for political reason, but personal ones. When she's back in the US, she can back talk all she wants, they can't stop her here. She's making this out to be that Israel is taking away her rights now.

It's all stupid and coming across now as nothing but political grandstanding and it will backfire. People aren't as stupid as she wants us to believe.

Israel is asking that Tlaib not support the BDS movement, or to decry Israeli human rights violations--while claiming Israel is a free and open democracy, the only one in the Middle East, supposedly. 

They are taking away her right to travel to the occupied territories, which are not part of Israel, but under Israeli military control--despite UN General Assembly resolution to the effect that the Palestinian people, not Israel, have sovereignty over this territory. They can (illegally) block her right to travel because they have already taken away the rights of millions of Palestinians to travel. From the perspective of the UN's International Court of Justice, this would certainly be a violation of Tlaib's human rights.

Tlaib's refusal to visit her family under these circumstances is a principled refusal to countenance Israel's illegal control over her family.

If Tlaib was originally invited to visit Palestine/Israel by the lobby group AIPAC, then she certainly was going for a "political reason." And her visit is now blocked for a political reason.

Further she is a member of Congress, and, owing to the doctrine of the separation of powers, Congress has oversight over foreign policy and funding of the Exec. If Bibi blocks her entry to Israel in the wake of a Trump tweet, then Trump has effectively negated her ability to observe US/Israeli policy on the ground in Israel--i.e., negating her oversight responsibilities as a sitting member of Congress. I don't think there is precedent for this (may have happened once during the Vietnam War, not sure).