Freshman congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (Dimwit - MI) was recently quoted as saying:
"There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people's passports," Tlaib said just after the 28 minute mark. "And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”
Setting aside the rhetorical ineptitude of using the terms "calming feeling" and "Holocaust" in the same sentence leaves us with the ahistorical fairy tale of "[Palestinians] trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time."
Rash? Even CNN fact-checked you.
Which, given the post-war history of the place, is pretty close to the stupidest thing anybody's ever written, said or thought about anything. Of the two men in the following picture, one was considered a leader of the "Palestinian" people. The other one wasn't.
"There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people's passports," Tlaib said just after the 28 minute mark. "And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”
Setting aside the rhetorical ineptitude of using the terms "calming feeling" and "Holocaust" in the same sentence leaves us with the ahistorical fairy tale of "[Palestinians] trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time."
Rash? Even CNN fact-checked you.
Which, given the post-war history of the place, is pretty close to the stupidest thing anybody's ever written, said or thought about anything. Of the two men in the following picture, one was considered a leader of the "Palestinian" people. The other one wasn't.
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It's possible that Tlaib actually believes her fairy tale about the history of the area is true. Many Muslims, in my experience, do not know their history, or know a truly warped version which does not approximate anything historically accurate. And the mainstream media in this country have done their very best to spread the inaccuracies.
Katherine, This is comparable to many who do not believe that the Armenian Holocaust ever happened, or that it was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians.
Once again, these are Articles of Faith for those on the Left, and no amount of rational debate will ever change their minds. They have to have a conversion experience, such as is now (thankfully) happening with the Walk Away movement.
Katherine, This is comparable to many who do not believe that the Armenian Holocaust ever happened, or that it was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians.
No, it isn't. The people who have a beef with Armenian historiography include the historical demographer Justin McCarthy, who may know more about the population dynamics of the early 20th c Near East than anyone else writing in English or French. McCarthy's thesis is that the Armenians did suffer a demographic disaster (about 600,000 dead) derived from a horribly botched effort to deport them to other parts of the Empire.
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