As violence continues in the Middle East, MSNBC host Joy Reid says Americans have not shown any empathy for the Palestinians in the years that she’s covered their conflict with Israel.
“I’ve been following this from a distance for a really long time, and I’ve never felt like Americans really care that much about Palestinians,” Reid told Representative Rashida Tlaib on The ReidOut on Tuesday. “As you said, they don’t hear Palestinian voices. There seems to be no empathy.”
Reid asked Tlaib, who identifies as a Palestinian-American, about a recent statement put out by the White House addressing the Biden administration’s position and asked if the congresswoman thought there was an empathy toward the Palestinians in the president’s message.
“[The Biden administration] are engaging me now, finally, after four months of me sending letters, with colleagues, talking about home demolitions, talking about the attack on Palestinians living in Israel,” Tlaib responded.
But while she said her concerns are finally being addressed by the administration, Tlaib added, “You don’t hear the words ‘Palestinians deserve human rights,’ that Palestinians deserve to exist, that Palestinians deserve to live freely, that children need to be safe and secure.”
We have no sympathy due to them not belonging there! They left and went to other Arab countries, their fellow Arabs didn’t want them so they decided to move back, too bad.
What is it Joy?
Lack of empathy for Palestinians?
Lack of empathy for (input any country)?
Lack of empathy for minorities?
Lack of empathy for criminals?
Lack of empathy for pronouns?
Children?
Animals?
1/2 of America who are on the right side?
Schools?
Teachers?
Employed?
Unemployed?
Fed/State/Local Gov’t workers?
Rich?
Poor?
How about Reality numbnut?
Starting with Yasser Arafat, they were offered compromise plans that would have allowed them to live in peace with Israel! They said no – they want it all!
Israel has a right to defend itself and the ragheads should be destroyed for thumbing their noses at peace!
You lost me at msnbc(marxist stalin news broadcast system).
They don’t want Peace ever, they turned it down 12 times already!
Palestine has rejected an Arab state west of the Jordan River 12 times since 1937:
1. July 1937 – The British Peel Commission recommended a three-way division – Arab state, Jewish state and the internationalization of Jerusalem. While the Jews were extremely unhappy with the proposed land division, they were open to negotiations. The Arabs rejected this proposal out of hand.
2. United Nations Partition Plan, November 29, 1947, Resolution 181, proposed dividing Palestine into seven sections, with three each going to the Jews and Arabs, and one surrounding Jerusalem to become a Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. The plan was accepted by the Jewish establishment and leadership, but was rejected by local Arab leaders and neighboring Arab governments.
3. Brits Withdrawal from Palestine and Independence Day, May 15, 1948, was a signal to the Arab armies to invade fully the Jewish areas, rather than declare an Arab state in the significant amount of land they were given by UN Resolution 181. The existing Arab nations never intended that any independent state exist west of the Jordan, but that they would capture, divide and annex the territory for themselves. The anticipated disposition of the Jews afterward resembled Hitler’s Final Solution.
4. 1949 Armistice between the Arab armies and Israel – Approximately one-quarter of the land west of the Jordan River remained in Arab control following armistice agreements. No Arab state was declared, but Egypt and Jordan kept their portions.
5. 1964 Founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization never led to an Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but focused solely on the elimination of Israel.
6. Aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War – Israel’s decisive victory over the Arab states in the defensive Six-Day War resulted in Israel occupying the Jordanian- or Egyptian-occupied territories of the West Bank, Jerusalem or Gaza Strip. On June 19, 1967, Israel’s National Unity Government, including Menachem Begin, voted to return captured land in exchange for peace. Rather than grasp this opportunity to create an Arab nation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the PLO/PNC joined the rest of the Arab world at the September 1967 Khartoum Arab Summit in responding “no peace, no recognition and no negotiation with Israel.”
7. The 1979 Camp David Peace Accords offered the Palestinians autonomy, which would almost certainly have led to full independence. They rejected any discussions.
8. The 1993 Oslo Accords led to the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House in September 1993, laying the groundwork for an eventual Palestinian state. However, the process was disrupted by the worst wave of Palestinian terrorism to date, later proved to be instigated at least in part by Arafat’s administration.
9. The 2000 Camp David Summit saw Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offer upwards of 95% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority for an independent state. It is quite understandable that Israel – the victor in the wars of 1948 and 1967 – would not offer all of the territory, much as Ukraine retains control of much of pre-WWII Poland, Russia and Poland control much of pre-WWII Germany, China controls occupied Tibet, Morocco controls Western Sahara, etc. Arafat did not take advantage of this opportunity.
10. January 2001 – In a replay of the Camp David Summit, Olmert offered at the Taba Summit a peace deal to Arafat, who rejected it on January 3, 2001.
11. March 2006 – After Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the PA could have declared the beginnings of a state there. Rather, they launched thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. Did this create a three- or really four-state solution?
12. September 2008 – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered 99.5% of the West Bank and Gaza and shared Jerusalem, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused any discussion.