Rashida Tlaib is a freshman female Congress member—from the 13th CD in Michigan which includes parts of Detroit and its suburban areas. Congresswoman Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, has disgraced herself, her Moslem faith, her party (Democrat) and her Congressional district by openly and intentionally calling our President—-the President of the USA —a “mother...ker”. The gross and vulgar phrase was part of a victory threat/promise “to impeach the President” which she screamed out to her supporters and her young family.
I was disappointed to learn that Tlaib was of Palestinian heritage. Her vulgarity and lack of decorum at her official swearing-in...is, I am sure, a terrible embarrassment to her co-nationalists in the Israeli occupied territories and Gaza. Those folks are desperately in need of a high profile spokesperson to expose the desperate plight of oppressed Palestinians— as well as Israeli brutality.
Perhaps instead of calling the President a “MF” she might have used the opportunity to remind her swearing-in audience—which was much of the USA—of the deaths of 250 unarmed Gaza demonstrators (among them women, children and innocent journalists and care-providers) who as they massed behind the Gaza border fence—were shot dead by Israeli snipers.
Ms Tlaib’s missed opportunity and vulgarity has just about proved that she does not belong in Congress. Her behavior was a disappointment even to this author—for I believe that the Palestinians (and those who support them) do have a legitimate complaint in regard to the brutal oppression their co-nationalists face in Israel and the occupied territories. And where better to express those disturbing facts than in the halls of the USA Congress?
Ms Tlaib will, after her offensive outburst, be seen as a vulgar, crackpot- radical who it is best for others to shun and ignore.
Sad—another opportunity—in Palestinian style—thrown away. .
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