Opinion: In appeasing Trump by banning US congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering Israel, Netanyahu risks alienating Democrat allies of Israel
In an earlier statement reacting to Thursday's ban announcement, Rep. Ilhan Omar expressed disappointment and lamented how Trump and Netanyahu seemed to be reflecting each other’s most authoritarian, racist, and undemocratic instincts. She said the ban would undermine the diplomatic relationship between Israel and the US, as well as efforts at peacemaking.
The illusion lets politicians “believe” the “fact” that Israel is the “only” “democracy” in the Middle East. As partisan divides in the US deepen, with Netanyahu’s help, those “facts” become harder to repeat in Washington, DC. Netanyahu did not just choose Trump’s Republican party, but Trump himself.
“I wish I could tell you that I am shocked. I am not,” Sanders told Ali Velshi on MSNBC on Thursday night. “We have a president who is tragically a racist, who is a xenophobe, and who is a religious bigot. But the idea that a member of the United States Congress cannot visit a nation, which by the way we support to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, is clearly an outrage.
Netanyahu’s statement demonstrated an enormous lack of self-awareness, accusing Tlaib and Omar of being the ones guilty of partisanship. That lack of self-awareness is a symptom of the fortress mentality Netanyahu’s nationalistic, racist politics foster.
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