Democrat Eliot Engel who is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said that Omar needs to apologize for her "vile antisemitic slur"
Nancy Pelosi has now declared said that Omar's vile comments are due to Omar's ignorance not any actual malice towards Jews.
"And I feel confident that her words were not based on any antisemitic attitude. But that she didn’t have a full appreciation of how they landed on other people where these words have a history and a cultural impact that might have been unknown to her."
At the very best this can be construed to mean that Omar is an antisemite but doesn't know it but Nancy is trying to tell us that in fact Omar is innocent. People can say vicious things but really be wonderful people just because they're ignorant.
Omar's claim that Jews are hypnotizing the world is also the theme of the most successful Nazi propaganda film ever made. Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers master propagandist, personally made the file called "Jud Suss" which tells the tale of a single Jew who is responsible for horrible things. Goebbels wrote in his diary that the film was:
“An anti-Semitic film of the kind we could only wish for. I am happy about it.”
So Nancy is trying to tell us that she, Nancy, really believes that Omar spews Nazi attacks on Jews without really herself, Omar, hating Jews.
The reality is that Omar has a deep abiding hatred of Israel and of Jews. That sort of hatred is sadly not uncommon among Muslims.
By pretending to ignore that Pelosi is coming down four square in support of hating Jews. But that's not surprising in that the Democrat base is all in for the destruction of Israel. The Left is all for using every type of economic and diplomatic pressure against Israel, the one Middle Eastern country where Christians are safe, while supporting Palestinian terrorists who use guided missiles against school busses.
Omar is not making reasoned arguments about how the US should support Israel she's attacking Jews and declaring that Israel is evil while she supports Muslim governments with far worse records.
While it's true that at times in the past any objection to this or that action by Israel has been called antisemitic by some extremist Jews but it's also true that Democrats have not been friendly to Israel without being called antisemitic. Obama's policies were horrible for Israel and he was called out for that but he wasn't called antisemitic because he didn't talk about Jews the way Omar does.
I've never understood antisemitism. I mean who hates Methodists?
I can't understand why people hate Israel so much. Israel has done lots of things I don't like but when compared to what the Palestinians have done Israeli's are saints. Despite Palestinian terrorism Israel is willing to go with a two state solution so long as the Palestinians stop calling for genocide and the destruction of Israel, which is far more generous attitude than most Americans would have.
Can you imagine how long Canada would be something less than a smoking ruin if they were constantly sending terrorists into the US to kill women and children? The US rolled over Afghanistan like a steam roller in response to 9/11--albeit after the Afghan government refused to turn over Bin Laden for a big bribe--precisely because any people will respond to terrorism--targeting women and children--with a great deal of anger.
We don't live in a world where the Palestinians try to attack military or government targets and only kill civilians accidentally. We live in a world where the Palestinians use guided weapons to ensure that they kill school children.
That's why it's so hard for me to understand how people like Omar can just hate Jews and wish for the destruction of Israel. How can they be so mad at Israel and so forgiving of Palestinians unless it's for reasons other than what Israel has done.
Mohammad hated the Jews and perhaps his hatred has lived on in some of his followers.
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