US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar stirs controversy with Middle East comments
edging away on Thursday from a bitter fight with some of her fellow Democratic legislators who accused her of likening the US and Israel to Hamas and Afghanistan’s Taliban, saying her remarks were “in no way equating terrorist organisations with democratic countries”. A statement by the Minnesota Democrat said her comments were “not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the US and Israel”, and seemed to dial back a more confrontational tone she had taken earlier. In a series of tweets, Ms Omar said her critics’ public rebuke of her was shameful, accused them of â€...