ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ CAN’T ANSWER THIS BASIC QUESTION ON PALESTINE
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Socialist New York Democratic primary winner Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez called Israelis occupiers of Palestine and then struggled to say what “occupation” meant on “Firing Line.”
“I … think that what people are starting to see … in the occupation of Palestine is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition, and that to me is just where I tend to come from on this issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said Friday.
When PBS “ Firing Line ” host Margaret Hoover asked Ocasio-Cortez what she meant by “occupation,” she struggled to answer.
“Oh … um … I think what I meant is like … the … the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where, um, where Palestinians are experiencing uh, difficulty in access to their housing and homes.”
When asked to expand on that definition, Ocasio-Cortez said she is “not the expert on geopolitics on this issue.”
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During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy . [17] She graduated fourth in her class [16] from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations . [18]
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Off-topic. This seed is not about Trump.
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The only word of your comment that is on topic on my seed is the first word. If you have gripes about other seeds, discuss it with Perrie and her mods. Thank you in advance.
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Off-topic. This seed has nothing to do with Trump or his supporters.
Some people just cannot help themselves.
As to the candidate? She's of the Cynthia Nixon class of Demo-Socialists that really know nothing at all, besides that they shold win because they don't like who is in there now. Pretty much their full platform. Here in New York, we're having fun laughing at these pretenders.
I know. For some odd reason, some people don't seem to understand that how the US House of Representatives legislates affects all US citizens.
Exactly. To be more precise, their platform also includes free college, free healthcare, no sovereign borders, abolish ICE, etc but they never explain who will pay for their proposed freebies or who will protect legal immigrants and US citizens from illegal alien criminals who deal in human and drug trafficking.
It's not only NY that's laughing. Many across our country are laughing at this ignorant 28-year-old socialist community organizer clown, too. In only 2 PBS (left-wing) interviews, she made a fool of herself.
Here in Boston we're still trying to figure out how they got elected?
They run on SJW/Socialist ideologies of free government assistance for life and zero personal accountability. Their low-info voters are mesmerized by the offer of freebies but don't understand that someone needs to pay for it.
Even if she wins in November, she will very possibly feel uncomfortable in her seat, because long-time Dems from around the country don't like her arrogance.
Here in Arizona we don't care about her, as she is some other state's problem. People of her ilk very seldom get elected outside of the major metropolitan areas like Phoenix or Tucson, and if they do they seldom last more than one term with a few exceptions because they wind up alienating their constituent base.
How do you feel about John McCain holding that seat though he hasn't served in the Senate in months?
Personally, I lost respect for Sen John McCain a long time ago. I feel he certainly should have stepped down months ago at the very least.
My thoughts too
I'm sure that's a big part of it. I wonder how it plays with everyone else? Are dems really gonna run on this?
Seems that the Democratic Party has only radicals whose platform is:
I'm sure there's more, but I'm tired.
And there is only one way to win when you embrace such radicalism - changing the voters - as they have done out in California
She's the new face of the extreme far left faction of what's left of the democrat party. Right alongside Bernie.
Indeed she is, but her inexperience, flat out stupidity on major topics, and lies about her personal background have caused her to quickly lose credibility in just a few short weeks.
She has a problem here.
The fact is that as it is used by so many, concerning Judea and Samaria, the word "occupation" makes no sense. To be "occupied" a territory must belong to some other sovereign entity, which is not the case for the region.
Since Judea and Samaria both historically and legally belong to Israel, if anyone is "occupying" them it is the Arabs - everyone else is ENTITLED to be there.
She has a lot of problems, because she graduated 4th in her BU class with majors in Economics and International Relations and has proven that she knows nothing about either subject.
No.
Care to explain your negative?
No. You made the affirmation. It's up to you to prove it.
The links provided throughout my seed already proved that Ocasio-Cortez knows nothing about Economics and International Relations. Perhaps you should read them.
What she's said about ICE also proves that she doesn't know the differences in the functions and duties of US Border Patrol and ICE.
They do not.
That's certainly a blatant lie.
Why did you omit the rest of the sentence? Here it is in its entirety:
Q: Who initiated that attack ... Israel or Hamas?
A: Hamas.
Israel has every right to defend itself.
By killing masses of people in retaliation for what (allegedly) another particular group did. Those protestors were were throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers many yards too far a way to be in any danger and yet some of those Israeli soldiers were casually using those protestors for sniper practice. That's murder not self-protection.
The "economics/international relations" further shows her ignorance ...
She’s the gift that keeps on giving
She'll be GREAT at "International Relations".....for the other side. Her Go-To answer will be..... "I DON'T KNOW !
I don't know sounds better than "Im with Vlad".
I'm in a pretty good mood today, so I won't report your 2nd off-topic comment, Steevie, but don't push it, OK?
Or "Will do"...... after re-elected.
I forget who said this, and I loosely paraphrase what he said Alexandria might say to a question ...
I'm not an expert, but I firmly believe that ________ .
Even Joe Lieberman wants her to zip it.
Some advice from that shit-stain.
Wow, this strong, young intelligent, capable, successful young woman scares the Depends off rightwingers...and Joe Lieberman. That name is just a punch line in the democratic party anymore.
You neglected to show evidence that she "scares the Depends off" anyone. But ... thanks for making a drive-by comment that contributes absolutely nothing to adult discussion.
The hysteria and bile she's generated from you and others on this topic is rock solid evidence of that. The deceitful way you edited her remarks is further rock solid proof. Please don't pretend this is anything but a low-level hit piece.
The fact that a person so ignorant has won says something about the ones who put her there.
It really wasn't much of a "majority" victory. The entire district's voter turnout was only around 20%. I hope that she re-studies her Economics and International Relations college books before her next interview so she doesn't embarrass herself again.
I hope she doesn't, and DOES embarrass herself again, and again, and again. Only 20% of the voters turned out - that's a quick path to a dictatorship. Australia is smart - they FINE people who don't vote.
I believe voting should be mandatory as well, Buzz, agree completely. If Americans were required to vote, the Republican party would be in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
The fact is that 9 out of 10 voters where she won are Democrats and Crowley was like Hillary, he just took it for granted he would win without doing anything to assure his success in doing so. I don't think he has had any significant competition since he was first elected. It would surprise me if any Republican is stupid enough to waste the money running against her, since a Democrat in that district is an automatic winner.
This from the person who claimed Jews have always lived in what's Israel now and it's always "belonged" to them. According to the OT, Abraham came from Ur which was in Babylon, now Iraq. So, even orthodox Jews who consider the Torah the word of Ha Shem, have to concede that the land was confiscated. They invaded and conquered just part of the area known as Israel now and never ruled over the entire area of what we call the Middle East today. So, they were outsiders. Not only that, but every Arab living there now has ancestors going back in that area long before those invading Jews arrived. To claim that Jews have always "owned" this area of the world is either a massive lie (if it continues to be promulgated despite the historical record) or malignant ignorance beyond measure.
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Personal attacks about NT members are not welcome on my seeds.
You're not very particular about who is welcome on them, I notice.
Everyone is welcome to comment on my seeds as long as they follow CoC/ToS as well as remain on topic.
It doesn't exactly inspire confidence that every one of her answers ends like a question, right????
This from someone who likely thinks Louie (Off His Meds Again) Gohmert is a prophet.
Personal attacks about NT members are not welcome on my seeds.
See 6.3.2 above
So Cortez supposedly can't answer 'the basic question' about Palestine? What ever that basic question might be anyway.
Besides, lets cut the crap and get to the real chase here. Nobody has answered 'any basic question on Palestine' for about 70 years.
Cortez supposed to fix this? Pshaw.
The premise here is right wing click bait. Click away, suckers.
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I love how rightwingers feign support for Israel when half of them, the religious quacks, only does so for their bizarre superstitious apocalyptic fever dreams of the destruction of Israel and the Jews. In any case, Joe Lieberman has been Israel's accomplice to the breaking of every agreement, promise, pledge and understanding between that country and the U.S. for over 40 years.
First thing we need to establish here is that even though rightwingers like to make us think that everything on PBS is leftist, the Hoover Institution is absolutely a very conservative "think" tank featuring such extreme rightwing "lights" as Victor David Hanson and Niall Ferguson as regular contributors. So, right off the bat we've got to expect that the goal is to try to embarrass Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I was hoping to find a transcript of this interview but, strangely, there isn't one. And, typically, our seeder provided just snippets of what of the dialog carefully cut in order to make sure we didn't really find out what her full answers were to these questions. Even more tellingly, he doesn't even give us a link to the entire interview, much less to the specific part involving Israel. Here it is at the 18:40 mark:
So, despite the conveniently abbreviated hatchet-job on Ms. Ocasio-Cortez that this article attempted to perpetrate, the full context of her remarks shows that she's honest and open about her positions and even her need to learn more about larger issues than just what directly involves the district she's running in. So, in that respect, she's already head and shoulders about most of the republican knee-jerkers on the Middle East mess.
*The official U.S. position, by the way, for over 40 years.
** Again, THE official US position for over 40 years.