The Love Story Only Washington Could Write

PART 1 - She said that American support for Israel is "all about the Benjamin's, and that AIPAC pays US politicians for that support" which is untrue, but what she's saying is that "If you support Israel, the only reason you would do so is because you are paid to, because why else right".. Slightly offensive right ? You can see that?

PART 2, This was a month ago that she was hesitant to apologize for this “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

the "all about the benjamens" in reference to AIPAC and CUFI,is an observational assessment of powerful lobbtists groups who spend massive amounts of money to influence our legislature to benefit the state of isreal.

conclusion:not anti-Semitic.but rather an observation,possibly tonedeaf,but an observation none the less.

now the "isreal has hypnotized the world" comment is certainly more in the area where I can see an pro-isreal person taking offense.

is it anti-semitic?
in my opinion,no.
is it an inflammatory statement directed towards a foreign power who happens to be predominantly jewish?
yes...yes it is.
could people be offended by that?
absolutely.
was omars comments ill-thought?
without a doubt.

anti-semitic?
by definition? no.

does the nentenyahu administration play the role of the victim for political reasons?
absolutely,and if was nentenyahu I would as well.

but anti-semitic? I don't see it.
that's just my .02 and I thank you for replying gumby.

because I have been witnessing a lot of people just dumping on omar and nobody seems to want to point to the actual words.
she did retract her statements and apologized,which it appears some people are not satisfied with,but ..that is their choice.nothing to do with me.

anyways,thanks man.
looks like we are going to disagree here.

You don't think Jews using money to garner influence is an age old stereotype ? It's the oldest. Whispering in the kings ear to gain favor, memorizing the crown with their evil. It's all antisemitism and to act like she "just didn't know" is about as foolish a response as you can have.

She's allowed to be antisemitic if she wants, but who the f**k wants that to be their representation ? Does her action help her constituents in any way ? Is Israel influencing gangs in her hometown of "little Mogadishu" to kill each other ?

About 100 papers have come out disagreeing with you and if you turn a blind eye to it's your call, but she obviously hates Israel and the Jewish People.

I guess when she calls Bibi a hook nosed money-grubber later in the year we will have to come up with another way to forgive her..

She also doesn't like the country or our government very much. She said Obama was a pretty face who got away with murder this morning.. There's a lot of anti American Somali strongholds.. or maybe you think Black Hawk Down was also an accident..

I have seen many op-eds make the connection of "money grubbing jews",and to me it is all political theater,drenched in hysteria.

you can feel however you want.
what you CAN'T do is change the narrative to fir your own biases and prejudices.

AIPAC and CUFI are whom omar was specifically addressing.
not jewish americans.
not private donors from jewish americans.
but powerful and monied lobbyists who spend immense amounts of money to influence and sway the opinions,and hence votes,of our legislators.

is this illegal?
no..in fact us normal Americans have suffered the cost due to big monied lobbyists.

but to change the narrative to "jewish americans",is like calling the Koch brothers or George soros "normal folk".

now you are fully within your rights to feel however you wish to feel about this.
you can even deem it "anti-Semitic".i just happen to disagree,and have stated the reasons why.

now as for her comment on Obama?
she is,without a doubt 100% correct.

anyways,i get why you feel the way you feel,and I thank you for sharing.
I just disagree.

A lot of Dems condemned it to their credit. Some really sugar coated it, and others on both sides said it was disgusting. the dems solution is so watered down that it's almost worse than if they had done nothing.

This was in response to your Gumby can't Math comment from days ago.. lol