avoiding acknowledging the fact that he is accused, among other things, of rubbing his erect penis against a colleague’s leg.

Our country is terrible right now. The racism, the meanness and foolishness of our government, the caging of children, all the mass shootings. Plus it’s August and we’re all melting. Not to mention the climate. Epstein. Weinstein. Endangered species. It’s awful out there and this news fits right in. I'm taking the…

Such is life in Trumpland. There was a really funny post I saw a few weeks ago that brought up things from a coupe of years ago that were huge news then like the airport debacles over the Muslim ban, the hurricane debacle in Puerto Rico, foreign dignitaries paying money to Trump’s Washington hotel and on and on and…

Denmark knows that the lazy corrupt racist orange santorum-covered enemy of the people would just stiff them.

The conditions weren’t specific to Tlaib or Omar. It’s a general Israeli law that applies to everyone who visits - you cannot support the BDS movement. For a nobody like you or me, how would the Israeli government ever know? These two Reps have a much larger profile and have centered the issue in their platforms so…

Yeah and she had the opportunity to with rest of congress last week or so and chose not to because she wants to cause a scene for herself.

LOL.  Have you seen the rest of the countries in the region?  Israel is the bad actor?  LOL.

Israel will stop being a “bad actor” the second their neighbors stop actively working to destroy it.  Not a second sooner. 

They should do literally none of what you said in your second paragraph.

So why even waste the time writing this letter? I agree with Tlaib and Omar that Israeli actions were ridiculous, but just because the letter was publicized wasn’t a reason to change course. She should have stood her ground from the onset or just taken the visit as is. Now everyone comes off looking bad. Both sides…

it doesn’t make them sound less horrible - it is evidence that they are entirely sane and reasonable.

Exactly correct - also note that those two feckless cunts put on their application for the trip that they were visiting Palestine and didn’t even use the word “Israel” anywhere in the application - as in “We are requesting the help of the Israeil government...” nope.

Why do you think all those other countries you are refering to have not taken care of thier Palestinian brothers? Why they aren’t allowed to be citizens in those other countries? Why they aren’t allowed to vote or get publica ssistance in those other countries?

LOL, pure fantasy. Iran couldn’t even beat Iraq despite having a huge numerical advantage and has essentially zero capacity to project force beyond its own immediate vicinity (i.e. the Strait of Hormuz). Are you seriously expecting Iran to roll through Iraq and Jordan like the Wehrmacht through Belguim and Luxembourg?

Lot’s of purposefully missing the point in the replies to this.

This is dumb; they’re a nuclear power now and could reduce any other ME country to a glass parking lot. If they would “be destroyed” by the withdrawal of US support for Israeli policies, then nuclear deterrence doesn’t work and we have a much bigger problem.

The thing is that Israeli needs radical policy to survive as a nation.  Do you know who their neighbors are?  Literally, and yes I actually mean literally when I say this, every neighboring country would like to have Israel wiped off the face of the earth.  Without strong policy and support from the US, I have no…

Wow, who could have predicted that Tlaib would use every opportunity she could for even more grandstanding, including using her own grandmother.

No one said she can’t go. They told her she can’t go if she’s going to actively work towards ending the Israeli state while she’s there.

And it wasn’t the NYT who broke the Epstein story, even though part of it happened under their nose - it was a humble regional paper, the MIAMI HERALD.