Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a hero to this Holocaust survivor

[Uncle Joe]

and if you truly want to listen to some f*%ing, mind blowing life experiences, tune in.

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[redqueen]

2. I hope the voices for peace can drown out the ones pushing war.

Thanks for sharing this.

[people]

3. Thank you for posting this.

There will never be any peace there unless Israel is willing to make compromises with the Palestinians. Revenge bombing is only going to increase the hatred and dehumanization on all sides. This is a terrible ongoing tragedy. The holocaust survivor in the video you posted has seen it all.

[malaise]

4. Must watch

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[Nanjeanne]

5. She's extraordinary. Watched this morning on DN on Free Speech TV.

[Mosby]

6. She isn't to this Holocaust survivor.

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

7. The primary difference that I can tell from your short clip and the OP

The lady in the OP recognizes "never again" to be a universal statement, she can empathize with the Palestinians being bombed because of her childhood experience being bombed with white phosphorous during the Holocaust by the Allies and that Gaza 40+%
of the population are children in a densely populated area being bombed.

The lady in your clip is inwardly focused at her own grief and the loss of her son, she is in deep pain and this is perfectly understandable.

[Nanjeanne]

9. This is terribly sad and my heart breaks for her suffering. And if the translation is accurate she

says nothing about Netanyahu or killing all Palestinians or anything about the current situation in Gaza. She shares her pain about the horrific attack and losing her son. Hamas did that horrible act. No argument there. But her words are not the words of the Tweeter who, as the Israeli Government Spokesperson, is posting her short video snippet.

We can and should listen to her and feel her pain. I can do that and also want a ceasefire and the end to this mass killing of civilians — the children of Israel and Palestine deserve our compassion and our guidance. We need to give them peace.

[Polybius]

8. And Jesse Helms got a few black votes

There will always be some from any group that supports bigotry against their own kind.

[Uncle Joe]

10. How do you know that she "supports bigotry against her own kind?"

Do you have any evidence?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. If Tlaib is her hero

Then she has chosen for a hero someone who defends the use of a phrase that calls for the eradication of the state of Israel.

I would consider that bigotry against Jews, but YMMV.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Tlaib is calling for a ceasefire, peace and freedom for the Palestinians.

YMMV

[SickOfTheOnePct]

13. Yea she is

That doesn’t negate the fact that she has defended the use of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

That’s a clarion call for the destruction of Israel.

So of course she wants a ceasefire, because a ceasefire would benefit Hamas, whose mantra she is defending.

[Uncle Joe]

14. That phrase can easily mean different things to different people.

A land connection from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip in a united and free Palestine is from the river to the sea, that doesn't mean the elimination of Israel.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. It's meant the same thing

For 75 years…the meaning doesn’t change just because people want it to, namely people who are using it and defending it. Then being called out for supporting genocide against Jews.

[Uncle Joe]

18. I don't believe the world is that simple

https://jewishcurrents.org/what-does-from-the-river-to-the-sea-really-mean

[RainWalker]

19. That is quite an article, thank you for sharing

[SickOfTheOnePct]

21. Feel free

To defend a mantra used by Hamas calling for genocide against the Jews.

[Uncle Joe]

22. I do feel free,

especially in comparison to the Palestinians and the Israelis trapped in their Hatfield and McCoy, Groundhog Day circle of hell forever.

I believe the Palestinians have long deserved a free and democratic Palestine, the Gazans have been living in the world's largest outdoor prison and almost 50% of them are children.

The greatest security Israel could ever have is a free, independent and democratic Palestine.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

23. I agree the Palestinians

Need their own state. But I can do that without calling for the destruction of Israel…Tlaib obviously can’t.

[Autumn]

33. Whoa.. Amazing article. Thank you for that Uncle Joe, you are so right. The world isn't that simple.

[PCIntern]

24. It does NOT.

This BS needs to stop. It’d be like saying a certain word beginning with “n” when used in a sentence doesn’t mean what you think it means. Yes it does. This is revisionist linguistics and is puerile and malicious in its intent.

[JohnSJ]

26. It is such crap this revisionist bullshit what "from the river to the sea" really means. Prior to the

1967 war Nassar was throwing that slogan out, "we will push Israel to the sea", and there was no doubt what he meant as he massed troops around Israel along with other Arab countries with the very real intent to destroy Israel.

Anyone who uses that phrase knows exactly the history of it, and what it means.

If they didn't mean the destruction of Israel, they wouldn't use that phrase, they would have called for a two-state solution with an independent Palestinian state. The fact that they didn't, speaks for itself.

[tritsofme]

27. Do they think we are stupid?

I really don’t get it. It’s hard to believe they don’t know exactly what they are saying.

[JohnSJ]

30. They know exactly what it means. Gee, what river could they be talking about, and what sea could

they be referring to?

I am sure some uninformed people unaware of the geography of the area will believe their crap, "what it doesn't mean"

[Polybius]

20. She supports Tlaib

That's enough evidence. Every group has self-haters, although I give this woman a pass because of her age. She may not know what she's saying.

[JohnSJ]

29. Democracy Now is a left wing news outlet who go out of their way to find interviews against

Israel. That is not to say that Netanyahu doesn't deserve criticism, and to be voted out, but even before Netanyahu their anti-Israel bias was there.

Their anti-Hillary coverage, along with anti-Hillary interviews I have no doubt influenced a good number of their progressive viewers not to vote for Hillary in 2016.

[Uncle Joe]

31. Democracy Now is Independently funded by viewers like you. n/t

[JohnSJ]

34. Independent has nothing to do with them having a left wing bias. It simply means

they are independently funded by viewers.

If you don’t believe Democracy Now has a left wing bias, I suggest you may have a bias yourself

[Uncle Joe]

35. Everything is relative, left/right is bullshit. Give me the facts instead of commercials. n/t

[betsuni]

32. I won't watch Democracy Now because of their bullshit during the Obama administration and

lies about Hillary Clinton, not news, propaganda. Funded by "grassroots" idiots who hate Democrats, as if that's even true. Democracy Now hates Democrats because they're beholden to their "grassroots" funders who hate Democrats. It's capitalism, status quo, establishment, etc.

[JohnSJ]

37. Their interviews and opinions without a doubt are. Their sympathetic interviews with

The likes of Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, Jill Stein, etc. pushed their babble with very little interview pushback

[obamanut2012]

36. So, you are literally calling a Jewish Holocaust survivor antisemitic

Good grief. That is the only takeaway from your saying, "...supports bigotry against their own kind."

[JohnSJ]

38. Norman Finkelstein whose parents were Jewish Holocaust survivor is an example. I am not

saying the same thing regarding the Jewish Holocaust survivor being profiled here, but pointing out that just being part of a demographic group does not exempt individuals within that group from being anti that group.

[Nanjeanne]

39. This woman has been a human rights

activist all her life. She has written numerous books and fought for civil rights. She is being true to her self and her decades long fight for humanity. To suggest she is anti “her group” is disgraceful. You don’t have to agree with her points to respect her desire for peace.

[JohnSJ]

40. Did you even read my post, because if you did I explicitly said I was NOT referring to the

Holocaust Survivor being profiled here, and for you to suggest I did is insulting and false

[Nanjeanne]

41. Well I dont want to upset you so much. So apology to you. Glad to know it wasn't THIS survivor.

Just others possibly.

[JohnSJ]

42. Thank-you. I most likely misinterpreted your post.

I would not disparage anyone’s personal tragedies

[radicalleft]

15. Her story of survival is so sad

and at the same time so inspirational. To have to witness those attrocities and carry that kind of trauma, yet dedicate her life to peace is amazing! She is a treasure!

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. K&R

Thanks for posting

[betsuni]

25. ...

[JackCoop]

28. Thank You For Posting This

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[ificandream]

43. Thank you for posting this.