http://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-tlaib-holocaust-comments
President Trump joined the chorus of criticism Monday against freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her recent remarks about the Holocaust.
"Democrat Rep. Tlaib is being slammed for her horrible and highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust. She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people," Trump tweeted. "Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said, and says?"
The president's remarks came as fellow Republicans called for Democratic leaders to "take action" against their colleague from Michigan.
Tlaib, who is Palestinian-American, discussed the Holocaust on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery."
"There's always kind of a calming feeling, I tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors - Palestinians - who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people's passports," Tlaib said on the most recent episode, which was put out Friday. "And, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And, I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways, but they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them."
The state of Israel was formed three years after the end of the Holocaust, although historians have pointed out that modern migration to the region had started decades earlier. The area was named Palestine at the time, although it was under British control.
Tlaib's use of the phrase "calming feeling" in reference to the aftermath of the Holocaust is what has drawn backlash. ...
Of course, Tlaib complains that her words were taken out of context, but ... not so fast ... the real problem she has is that her "facts" were faulty and her sentiment was all too clearly hatefully anti-Semitic ...
CNN Fact Checks Tlaib's Holocaust Comments: "She Can't Rewrite History"
http://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnn-fact-checks-tlaibs-holocaust-comments-she-cant-rewrite-history/
CNN's John King corrected Representative Rashida Tlaib's (D., Mich.) revisionist history of the Holocaust on Monday, pointing out that Palestinian leaders supported the German extermination of Jews and violently resisted the creation of a Jewish state.
"It was my ancestors - Palestinians - who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity. Their existence, in many ways, had been wiped out," Tlaib said last week on the Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast. "I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time."
"[Tlaib] ignored the fact that Palestinian leaders at the time allied themselves with Hitler and that total war is how the Arab world reacted to the declaration of Israeli independence," King said Monday. "She can't rewrite that history and you can't project revisionist history," he added before introducing his guest, Aaron David Miller, a former adviser to six secretaries of state, who castigated Tlaib for enflaming divisions by resorting to ahistorical Holocaust references.
"They were considering extermination of the entire Jewish community there as well," Miller said of Palestinian leaders who believed German forces might arrive in the region after defeating allied forces in North Africa. "So this was ill-timed, ill-advised, and I think it clearly is simply going to antagonize and polarize the already polarized debate in Washington." ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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