Rep. Ilhan Omar elicited outrage with a public entreaty for the US to shift from giving Israel “unconditional weapons sales and military aid” to diplomacy. NY Post reporter Ryan King shares this story.
Omar (D-Minn.), a member of the so-called “Squad,” also harped on the plight of the Palestinians and suggested that Israel’s retaliation against terrorist group Hamas might be a “war crime.”
“The Israeli Defense Minister has called Palestinians ‘human animals’ and promised to cut off all electricity, all food, and all fuel to civilians in Gaza,” Omar wrote in a lengthy thread on X, formerly Twitter.
“This is collective punishment, a war crime, and the U.S. should oppose any violations of international law if we truly support a rules-based international order,” she continued.
The 41-year-old congresswoman who’s long been a vocal critic of Israel’s settlement policies and a defender of the Palestinians, further argued that “the solution to this horror, as ever, is a negotiated peace.”
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