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Facebook is getting out of line, and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is enraged. Instead of acting the way it usually does, dutifully carrying water for the far Left, Facebook has had the temerity to allow the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to run an ad criticizing Omar herself. After a public career of virtually unanimous adulation from the media and fawning from her colleagues in Congress, even in the face of her repeated anti-Semitic statements, it must be jarring indeed for the winsome Congresswoman actually to face some negative feedback.
Rejecting Omar’s demands (so far) that the ad be taken down, Facebook is allowing AIPAC to run an ad reading, “When Israel Targets Hamas Rep. Omar calls it an ‘act of terrorism.’” This outrages the soft-spoken Omar because what she actually wrote was “Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.”
The changes come as Republican lawmakers and organizers’ continued embrace of baseless claims of widespread election fraud threaten to influence the midterms and the 2024 election.
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One thing you can say about the Republicans on Israel: They’re reliable. Faced with a threat, they will choose the sledgehammer over the scalpel.
There is no subtlety or nuance for them when it comes to Israel. It is not Israel right or wrong; it is Israel, right and right. The Holy Land is wholly innocent of misjudgment or overreach.
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Once the evangelical Christians went all in for Israel years ago, so did the GOP. The infatuation of the fundamentalist Christians with Israel awaiting the return of the Messiah (not to be confused with the restoration of Donald Trump in 2024) unnerves some Jews, but no matter.