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Youre talking about two muslim women. when there is such a spread of islamophobia worldwide and one of them happens to be a palestinian american. when you have anger, the palestinian territories about the building and the settlements and theres still no peace and still no two-state solution, broeth of these women and many democrats support. apac and others, pro israel, has supported the congresswomen and felt israel was wrong. >> they did that because, for the plit kl atmosphere -- political atm...

Any foreign government, ally or foe not to admit members of the united states congress. its apparent that benjamin netanyahu is putting his own re-election hopes which dependent upon him currying curr favor with the far right in israel above the u.s.-israel relationship. and no one whos a friend to israel would ever do this. and the reason is the survival of the relationship depends upon it being bipartisan, and that is why apac came out and to the exception of what the president said, if you ha...

Said, essentially what apac said and a lot of other pro israel organizations -- we may not agree with their positions, but we do agree that they should go there, see things, judge for themselves, have that experience. >> yeah, i think its all -- you know, its been about the millionth time that weve seen during this administration that -- >> millionth, yeah. >> -- that people who are working with the president on these things dont always have the same playbook that theyre playing from. they dont ...

Much. in addition to pro israel lobbies like apac opposing israels action on this, lawmakers have also been weighing in. republican senator marco rubio, quote, i disagree 100% with representatives tlaib and omar and the boycott bill we passed in the senate, but denying them entry into israel is a mistake. bds stands for boycott divestment and sanctions. house speaker pelosi called the decision a sign of weakness, presidents stamtsz about the women a sign of ignorance and disrespect. joining us n...

Enters. israel has a law that authorizes the possible denial of entry to people who support boycotts can of israel and omar and dlaib tlaib do. but foreign policy experts and middle east experts say thats not what this is about at all tonight. in fact, they know that because israel was planning to admit them and had said so on the record and an israeli journalist is now reporting the reason israeli prime minister netanyahu made this reversal was because of "the pressure from donald trump," which...

No democratic society should fear an open debate. many strong supporters of israel will be deeply disappointed in this decision which the israeli government should reverse. so apac, which again has been critical of both of these congresswomen, essentially saying, yes, have the debate but why not have them come. essentially saying to the israeli government, what are you afraid of? >> thats the most interesting statement to me. you have somebody whos kind of aligned with president trump and republ...

Making that distinction then? >> i think this is just another attempt by republicans to stay on donald trumps good side, no matter how awfully he behaves. in fact this decision has been denounced by all of the major jewish american organizations, including apac. its being denounced by israels strongest friends in the democratic caucus, including house majority leader steny hoyer. kevin mccarthy and other republicans know this is wrong. they know theres no excuse for barring sitting members of co...

Them from the country received strong rebukes from democrats as well as republicans, some republicans. and the top pro-israeli lobbying group in the use, apac tweeted we disagree with representatives omar and tlaibs support for the anti-israel and anti-peace bds movement" -- thats the sanctions moment -- along with tlaibs calls for a one-state solution. we also believe ever member of congress should be able to visit and experience our democratic ally israel firsthand. in a statement this afterno...

Unprecedented. they were perfectly ready to admit them, the ambassador said they would honor the fact they were members of the house of representatives. >> this is a rare, dumbfounding instances. you see j street and apac are in alignment in most of the political apparatus of this country with the exception of donald trump. whether you disagree with in the meantime or agree with their positions here, they are the appropriators in our system of government. the congress are the ones who appropriat...

New developments now in a major braeing political story today. israels decision to ban two democrats in congress, representative ilhan omar of minnesota, representative rashida tlaib of michigan. israel says they are not welcome. israel says they are not welcome. that decision coming after the president of the united states tweeting israel would look weak, show great weakness if it allowed them to come. reaction comes in now from political groups. this from apac. we disagree with representative ...