The propaganda war against the State of Israel is as powerful as the violent war. It is no accident that the major Islamic groups operating in the United States are mostly unindicted co-conspirators in a terror funding case involving a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, Hamas. Those mainstream lobbies can be found HERE.
It is well known that the anti-Semitic, Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) fully supports the Muslim Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Why? Not just because they are Muslim, but because they share common goals. Recall also: they were the first to sign the pledge to impeach Trump. Make America Great Again? Not their motto. Nor do they seek the interests of any democracy, especially Israel.
Some other headlines:
- Tlaib: ‘I was naive in not understanding how bipartisan Islamophobia is in Congress’
- Tlaib has paid $170,000 to ‘Muslim American community activist’ who falsely claims Israel is ‘apartheid state’
- Far-Left Dems, including AOC, Omar, and Tlaib, force House to cut $1,000,000,000 from Iron Dome funding for Israel
And now, the Palestinian lobbyist Tlaib is out to smear Israel again. Tlaib’s nice high-paying job is to serve America, but she uses her platform to serve the Islamic and Palestinian cause.
But who cares about the truth about the Palestinian propaganda and lies being spread widely? Certainly not the pro-Palestinian lobby and its water carriers.
“Rashida Tlaib plays the ‘Grandma Card,’ again,” by Stephen M. Flatow, Israel National News, March 5, 2022:
Isn’t it remarkable how some anti-Israel lies seem to be repeated again and again, and even published in respected newspapers, no matter how many times they have been exposed as false?
In a major New York Times feature this week, U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) once again falsely promoted the claim that her grandmother, Mrs. Muftia Tlaib, is persecuted by Israel—when, in reality, Grandma lives under the rule of the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.
Yet Tlaib keeps repeating the lie, and New York Times reporter Rozina Ali either didn’t bother, or didn’t want to, do the elementary fact-checking on Tlaib’s claims.
The narrative of the ‘mistreated grandmother’ —sure to elicit readers’ sympathy— was a major part of the March 3 article. It repeatedly referred to Israel’s supposedly harsh “occupation of the West Bank,” followed by mentions of the fact that Tlaib’s grandmother, Mrs. Muftia Tlaib, “is living in the West Bank.”
The clear implication, again and again, was the Grandma lives under Israeli rule. To strengthen that oppression, the article mentioned that Some years ago, Tlaib “visited the West Bank and saw for herself the walls and checkpoints.”
Of course, Israel’s checkpoints are no more oppressive than the checkpoints that one finds at every airport in the United States, and they serve exactly the same purpose—to catch terrorists. But Congresswoman Tlaib, and her sympathetic Times interviewer, seemed determined to create the impression that cruel Israel is mistreating poor grandma.
The notion that Grandma Tlaib is oppressed by Israel is a lie.
She resides in the Palestinian Arab village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa. Nothing in the article gave readers even the slightest clue that the Israeli occupation of that village ended in 1995. For the past 24 years, Beit Ur al-Fauqa has been governed by the Palestinian Authority.
In the autumn of 1995, then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an agreement with then-PA chairman Yasir Arafat, known as the Oslo II Accord. It provided for the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the territories where 98% of the Palestinian Arabs reside, including Beit Ur al-Fauqa. The Israelis withdrew. The occupation ended.
Arafat agreed that a portion of the non-residential agricultural land which Beit Ur al-Fauqa claims belongs to it would be assigned to the area under Israeli security control. Prime Minister Rabin requested this arrangement because that area is dangerously close to the Israeli towns of Beit Horon and Givat Ze’ev, and Route 443, a highway where Israeli automobiles are often subjected to Arab terrorist attacks. But the residential portion of Beit Ur al-Fauqa, as well as the rest of the adjacent agricultural land, have been under the rule of the PA for more than two decades now.
Isn’t it remarkable how the Times article in effect rewrote history? No Oslo accords, no Israeli withdrawals, no Palestinian Authority control over 98% of the Palestinian Arabs. None of that ever happened, to judge by the Times and Congresswoman Tlaib….
Ever wonder why Muftia Tlaib’s Granddaughter-the-Congresswoman never acknowledges the PA’s oppression? The answer is obvious: Rashida Tlaib wants to smear Israel….
