AOC and The Squad Demanded Israel De-escalate Even Before Israel Responded To Hamas Murdering, Kidnapping, and Raping Hundreds In Surprise Attack
“As part of achieving a just and lasting peace, we must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid.” – Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.)
The brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, which has seen the massacre and taking hostage of civilians by Hamas complete with bodies being paraded through Gaza streets, have brought forth a plethora of reactions from American politicians and presidential candidates, many of whom unequivocally condemned Hamas’ actions and stated their support for Israel to respond with full force.
Then there were the statements issued by members of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s so-called “Squad.” While predictable considering the anti-Semitism many of them have shown towards Israel in the past, they are nevertheless worth documenting for the record.
First up is AOC, who stated that “violence will not solve the ongoing oppression and occupation in the region” while calling for “an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation” to “save lives”:
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) October 7, 2023
Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote that “Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we’ve seen, which we cannot allow to continue” and also called for “deescalation and ceasefire”:
I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we've seen, which we cannot allow…
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 7, 2023
In another tweet, Omar suggested Palestinians were defenseless and were “deserving of protection from the international community”:
“Reminder, Gaza doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome and to please pray for them. May peace prevail in the region and move us towards a moral awakening to care about the human suffering we are seeing. Palestinians are human beings who have been in besieged and are deserving of protection from the international community.”
Reminder, Gaza doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome and to please pray for them. May peace prevail in the region and move us towards a moral awakening to care about the human suffering we are seeing. Palestinians are human beings who have been in besieged and are deserving of… https://t.co/zHssSCqi1O
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 8, 2023
Rep. Ayanna Pressley called for “an immediate ceasefire & de-escalation,” saying it “is long past time to stop this cycle of violence & trauma, and work toward a just & lasting peace in the region”:
These devastating attacks on Israelis are deeply alarming and my heart breaks for the victims & their loved ones.
We need an immediate ceasefire & de-escalation.
It is long past time to stop this cycle of violence & trauma, and work toward a just & lasting peace in the region. https://t.co/mPUukLKYg6
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) October 7, 2023
Rep. Jamaal Bowman wrote “We need a way to end this deadly violence that is killing and traumatizing generations of Israelis and Palestinians alike — including the blockade of Gaza”:
My statement on the escalating violence in the Middle East: pic.twitter.com/xGb8FYnqit
— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) October 7, 2023
Similarly, Rep. Cori Bush’s official statement took a blatant blame-the-victim approach in response to the “ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel”:
“As part of achieving a just and lasting peace, we must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid.”
My statement on the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NIt9G7aLMI
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) October 8, 2023
As of this writing, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has not issued a response, which considering her rabid activism on behalf of her fellow Palestinians speaks volumes.
Every Democrat party statement of "de-escalation" or "ceasefire" is a set up to blame Israel for any retaliatory response. They are instructions for the media to follow. The sticky note over Israel in Rashida Tlaib's office was not an accident.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 8, 2023
Flashback:
Someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office. pic.twitter.com/mwyshIog4r
— Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) January 3, 2019
Meet your new anti-Israel members of Congress:
“I personally support the BDS movement." — Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
"Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." — Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) pic.twitter.com/69nDwADquL
— Joshua Robbin Marks (@JoshMarks78) January 4, 2019
Relatedly, the Democratic Socialists of America – of which AOC and most of her Squad comrades are members – are holding a rally today at 1 p.m. in a show of “solidarity” with the Palestinian people:
The political party’s New York City chapter on Saturday announced its “All Out for Palestine” demonstration as rockets rained down on Israel from Hamas terrorists. The assault on the Jewish state, which included attacks on dozens of Israeli cities and towns, has left at least 250 dead and more than 1,400 wounded.
Included in the Democratic Socialists of America are all four members of the left-wing “Squad”—Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Cori Bush (Mo.), and Ilhan Omar (Minn.)—as well as fellow Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) and Greg Casar (Texas). None of their offices responded to a request for comment. Both Bowman and Ocasio-Cortez are members of the organization’s New York chapter. Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.) left the party in 2021.
🗣️🗣️🗣️ Tomorrow, October 8, at 1PM. Times Square.
In solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid.
🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE! https://t.co/1N67nS56GZ
— NYC-DSA 🌹 (@nycDSA) October 7, 2023
They’re telling us who they really are again, and we should listen to them and call them out accordingly every step of the way.
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Israel attacked. Thousands of missles. Hundreds of dead. Thousands of wounded. Tons of hostages from 2 years old babies all the way up to 85 year old grandmothers.
What is the response from these four illustrious women? “Israel better not do anything. Tell them to de-escalate now before some innocent people get hurt.”
There are also dead and captured American citizens, evidently just a minor inconvenience for the Squad, not worthy of a mention.
Having watched Gaza & West Bank ingrates for over 50 years and studying the issue over that time, it is my opinion that those ingrates are 99% wrong. How about we ship the squad over that after tattooing their foreheads with Americans, and F-Pally?
This is war, it has been sind the 1880s. and even worse since WW2 ended. How many Americas are dead or maimed? Consider extracting retribution at 100,000 each.
SecState Blinken stated that “several Americans” were killed.
How many of them were/are constituents of the squad?
Yep – I wonder how many of those innocent civilians were cheering in the streets? I realize the Hamas runs Gaza as a dictatorship, hurting it economically but to what degree does the urge to destroy Israel align between the Hamas and the population?
I think Israel has given warning to civilians to vacate the region as pain is coming. Hamas started this war and the civilians still tolerate Hamas. War is hell.
If I ever feel the urge to brutally sucker punch someone, when he starts to get up off the ground, I’ll demand immediate de-escalation.
Hopefully the Squad and the world community will be in the crowd surrounding us and also call for de-escalation.
My usual meme to this effect is: “Did you ever notice how the guy yelling ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ is always the guy who committed the first wrong?
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
So. How many Jewish votes with AOC and Jamaaal Bowman get in the next election? Democrats, you know.
Does “same as now” ring any bells?
We all remember “same as now,” don’t we?
It’s exactly the opposite of “never again.”
It is amazing how smart people sometimes do really stupid stuff.
You mean like voting for democrats when democrats hate your guts?
Wait … smart people? Thought we were talking about the squad.
No, I think he’s talking about (irreligious) Jewish voters.
Hillary Clinton says, “After we formally deprogram MAGA Repulicans AOC and Jamaal Bowman will get a lot more votes.”
Yeah, “deprogram” doesn’t mean what she wants us to think it means. We have to be eliminated. And she knows it.
Graduates from that program will be routed to a shallow pit. Lefties advocating for leftism’s standard solutions.
I don’t think there are many Jews in AOC’s district. Bowman’s has a fair number, and something tells me they will turn out against him, at least in the primary.
No there aren’t many Jews in any of the Squad’s districts. I remember reading something about it when these 4 wack jobs, Especially the 2 Hamas Members, got elected that was one of the points made as to how they got elected.
My recommendation: Israel should nuke Gaza from orbit. The world will get by just fine…
Israel’s nagging problem is that Gaza is not nearly as target-rich an environment as the one shown in this article’s lead photo.
Henry, I have been thinking the very same thing.
You make an excellent point.
Maybe they bulldoze a mile wide kill zone along the border. Buy south Korea’s auto-cannons.
https://newatlas.com/korea-dodamm-super-aegis-autonomos-robot-gun-turret/17198/
Too close to Israel for that. israel keeps gaza and the West bank as their version of of our entitled city ingrates. They should start lacing the free water they give them with estrogen, dosed to reduce reproducting to about one child per family, and also help to make men less violent. With just one child, maybe they would finely value their children enough to stop using them as cannon fodder.
Love this idea
It’s the only way to be sure…
Maybe these girls along with Mr. Fire Alarm could do their country a favor and drop dead.
They should go to Gaza and take the place of the hostages.
It’s amazing how many low-IQ Kool-Aid drinkers warship these idiots.
Where’s our resident Mr. IQ?
I’d love to read why these huge Ashkenazi constituencies continue to elect all these female cheerleaders for religious and ethnic communities that want to wipe them out.
For whatever reasons, people find it really hard to change their minds about politics and religion. Also, IQ is only one factor in what drives success,
Most of them don’t have a lot of Jewish constituents. But if your real question is what makes secular Jews so wedded to the Democrat Party, the basic answer is that in the absence of actual Judaism the space it formerly occupied has been taken by a subconscious fear of Christianity, derived from folk memories of Christian antisemitism in the last century. This has so twisted them that they are now afraid of all serious religion, including Judaism! They’re OK with people who are only nominally religious, as they are, but when they see Evangelicals and the more serious kind of Catholics, who take their religion seriously, they subconsciously get ready for a pogrom; and when they see Jews who look uncomfortably like those people, because they too take their Judaism seriously, they get the same subconscious feeling. And since the Republican Party is so associated nowadays with serious religion, they retreat into their secular religion of Social Justice, for which they have invented a Hebrew term that they mostly pulled out of their rear ends, Tikun Olam. That is how we see abortion and open borders become “Jewish sacraments” to them.
Why are these idiots always given special attention? What makes them special? What makes them unique is their ultra stupidity. Maybe they are collectively a bunch of closet lesbians.
It’s like Black Lives Matter.
I have a recommendation for the US Government. Let’s give Israel a squadron of B52s and all the Mk82s they need to end this problem once and for all. Gaza is nicely shaped for this type of bombing.
Evil people making excuses for evil.
“The Squad” = comic relief
Isn’t it pretty to think so?
Fuel-air explosives over Gaza and the West Bank, then napalm the rubble. Air drop salt and leave the rubble.
No survivors.
I’m pretty much down with this.
I agree, and for some reason such comments dissapear.
I have said for years that we should use a 1 to 1000 “counterbalance” (May not be the right term) strategy with our enemies.
For every 1 American killed we will kill 1000 of them.
Unfortunately, no politician has the testicular fortitude to push such a strategy.
Irv 👍
Those who don’t fight evil, fight good
The only good Muslim terrorist is a dead Muslim terrorist.
As a teenager in the 70’s I was always afraid to fly because of terrorist aircraft hijackings.
It was almost exclusively Islamic terrorists, who were brutal. No other group left a more indelible mark than this group. It wasn’t helped when I joined the AF and spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East.
I don’t understand why we can’t rid ourselves of this scourge.
A billion of them
We most certainly cannot cure what is wrong with these people.We have bombs which are not affected by how many people are at ground zero.
They are scum
I have no idea why anyone pays attention to that clutch of anti semites except morbid fascination of what nonsense is spewed from their pieholes next.
Those Pali Terrorists? Raze Gaza to the ground, evict all the terrorist inhabitants to Iran and settle with Jewish adults who don’t live to murder children and women
We need to pay attention and understand that we will have to deal with them.
Oh, don’t worry it will be “de-escalated”, in fact I my suggestion is that they use rules of wart and “de-escalate” any one of the attackers right then and there.
De-escalate? Sure, just after Gaza is turned into a parking lot.
Things do not add up. I have been to Israel when I was in the USAF as a subject matter expert on a system the US provided to Israel. Massad has better intelligence on what is going on in Israel than any of the three letter organizations does on the USA. Any “important” anniversary dates of wars or attacks they gear up. While I was in Israel I had a “handler” that was with me any time I was outside of my hotel room. She was a 20 year old IDF hottie and was armed to the teeth with concealed weapons. Israel is the world’s leaders in human behavior. their methods of airport security are the best in the world. They saw this coming and let it happen.
Nope. They didn’t see this coming, any more than they saw the war coming 50 years ago, until it was too late to do anything to stop it.
I remember seeing an election ad that the Labor Party ran in the 1973 Israeli election, before the Yom Kippur attack. It boasted of how, thanks to the Labor Party’s excellent government, all was quiet on the Bar-Lev Line (Israel’s then-southern border). Needless to say, when the postponed election finally happened in 1974 they didn’t re-run that ad.
They don’t give a damn about people being raped, and murdered here, so no surprise they don’t give a damn about those in the only middle-eastern democracy either.
I would like to see the squad in stocks, nude in the middle of the hood. They are ugly, but I am sure there are nasy people who would find them enteraining 🙂
Meanwhile, Israel’s Police Minister has announced that he is relaxing Israel’s draconian gun laws, to something just a little bit less draconian. Here’s my translation of the press release:
Today I have directed the Firearms Licensing Branch to embark on an emergency campaign in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves.
The program will come into effect within 24 hours. Here are its main points:
1. Every citizen who satisfies the criteria specified for carrying private arms for self-defense and service in the security forces, and who has no criminal or medical past, will be required to undergo a telephone interview instead of a physical interview, and will be able to receive a permit to carry firearms within a week.
(The self-defense criteria: Residence in an eligible settlement; veterans ranked Riflemen 07 or higher; officers ranked lieutenant or higher, and NCOs ranked first chief sergeant or higher, in the IDF or the security services; service in special units; firefighters, police officers, and workers and volunteers in rescue services.)
2. Any citizen who has received a conditional permit to purchase a firearm and who has not purchased a firearm during 2023, and the conditional permit has expired, may purchase a firearm immediately without needing to submit another application. This exemption applies to about 4,000 citizens.
3. Any citizen who has deposited his weapons [with the police] in the last half year because of failure to take refresher training or renewal training, may receive his weapons back. This exemption applies to about 1,800 citizens.
4. In addition, starting this coming Tuesday, conditional permits for carrying firearms will be issued with a permit that allows the purchase of up to 100 rounds, rather than 50 as is the case today.
All this is in addition to the change in criteria that is to happen soon.
I thank the staff of the Firearms Licensing Branch, the Citizens Response Department of the Israeli Police, and the Health Department workers, for their so-important commitment that will allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves, and to defend themselves and their surroundings as needed.
End of Press Release.
Seeing how this is the “relaxed” version, you can appreciate how difficult it usually is to exercise the RKBA.
Thanks for this. It’s always surprising to me that the lefty, progressive types in Israel can gain much political traction for an anti firearm agenda given the realities. I can see how these folks could gain support for other aspects of a progressive agenda on spending, social programs and the embrace of a general EU style outlook. But not on private firearm ownership. It’s a tough neighborhood with a long history of sudden violence and even prior to this past week one didn’t have to search a history book for examples where an armed public, capable of offering immediate resistance would have been beneficial.
Based upon their political careers and beliefs, the members of the squad have a deep and personal responsibility for the deaths and rapes in Israel. It’s to be expected that the political entrepreneurs and careerists in the squad don’t accept that responsibility. They are sociopaths concerned only with their on lust for wealth and power.
The 4 Hoes of the Apocalypse.
All of them deserve some quality time with Hamas or some Taliban Chip’n’Dales.
AOC is dumbest of the bunch and Ilhan is more evil than Taliban or Hamas.
All in all, they would make a fine harem for Sheldon “sissie” Whitesouse..