- Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:16 pm
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The Israeli government said they would allow her to visit her grandmother as long as her visit wasn't for political reasons, she declined.
The reason is obvious, if her visit is purely for personal reasons, SHE has to pay for it, not U.S. tax payers! Plus she can't bring her staff unless she foots the bill. Turns out when it comes to her paying for her trip, she's not concerned about seeing her 90 year old grandmother before she dies.
The reason is obvious, if her visit is purely for personal reasons, SHE has to pay for it, not U.S. tax payers! Plus she can't bring her staff unless she foots the bill. Turns out when it comes to her paying for her trip, she's not concerned about seeing her 90 year old grandmother before she dies.
Israeli minister rips Tlaib for nixing trip, says ‘her hate for Israel’ overcomes ‘love for her grandmother’.Israel’s interior minister tore into U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday for abruptly canceling plans to visit family in the West Bank after the government granted permission for the trip in a bid to smooth over a diplomatic firestorm.
“Apparently her hate for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother,” Aryeh Deri tweeted.
The dueling statements from Tlaib and the Israeli government are poised to escalate a confrontation that briefly seemed to be ebbing Friday morning – when Deri granted Tlaib’s request on humanitarian grounds to see her grandmother in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
This came after the Israeli government drew bipartisan criticism in Washington for refusing entry to Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as part of a broader visit.
But then Tlaib, in a scathing statement and set of tweets, announced she had decided not to go, saying "oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother's heart."