Israellycool "‘From the River to the Sea’ is of course a similar catch-cry to the one that got her fellow “Dismantling Antisemitism” panelist Marc Lamont Hill fired from the CNN.
"Think about that for a second – a sitting member of congress has just publicly endorsed a call for another country’s destruction, a strong ally no less.
"We already knew that panel was a joke, but now it should be even clearer what it’s really all about.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib retweets genocidal slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free - code for eradicating the State of Israel and its millions of Jews.
"Reminder - this is a sitting U.S. Congresswoman"... [Democrat, I might add. TD]
. . . "The Daily Beast, a left-wing publication, wrote the following about the meaning of the phrase:
The river in this formulation is the Jordan, the naturally occurring eastern border of Israel and of the West Bank; the sea is the Mediterranean to the west. Uttered by advocates of the Palestinian cause for decades, the pithy slogan very pointedly makes no place for Israel. It evokes a strip of Middle Eastern land where Israel is no more, replaced by a unified Palestinian entity in the space it once occupied. It could be that this entity would welcome and protect a Jewish population. But when supporters of the Jewish state hear those 10 words, they worry about their potentially violent implications.
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