Ocasio-Cortez Claims Israel Is ‘Occupying,’ Palestine, then Admits She’s No Expert

Ignorant and clueless she'll fit in well with the Democratic party

 

No, of course not. How about below?

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Israel is exceptional because She accomplished so much considering She is the 150th smallest country in the world.

Israel is exceptional because She has achieved all this with only 1/1000th of the world’s population.

Israel is exceptional because She has achieved what She has in spite of being under constant threat by enemies all around Her.

Israel is exceptional because relative to Her population, She has absorbed more immigrants than any other country in the world — 350 percent of its population.

Israel is exceptional because She is the only country in the world to have revived a dead language.

Israel is exceptional because She has more Nobel Prize winners per capita than any other country other than Sweden.

Israel is exceptional because She has more laureates in real numbers than China, Mexico and Spain combined.

Israel is exceptional because She has the eighth longest lifespan, beating the U.K. and the U.S.

Israel is exceptional because She is the only country in the world with net gain in tree growth, even more remarkable as Israel is 60 percent desert.

Israel is exceptional because She is the only country in the world with shrinking deserts.

Israel is exceptional because because 90 percent of homes use solar power to heat water.

Israel is exceptional because Her Science institutions rank third in the world and second in space sciences.

Israel is exceptional because She produces more research papers, per capita, than any other country in the world, by a long margin.

Israel is exceptional because She ranks third in highest rate of female entrepreneurs.

Israel is exceptional because She has attracted more venture capital money than any other country, outside of the U.S., in the world — 30 times more than Europe.

Israel is exceptional because She leads the world in medical patents.

Israel is exceptional because She has more companies listed on the Nasdaq (outside of the U.S.) than any other country in the world (more than Europe, India, China combined).

Israel is exceptional because She has more start-up companies than any other country in the world (other than the U.S.).

Israel is exceptional because She is the only country whose indigenous population returned to its homeland after 2,000 years of forced exile.

Israel is exceptional because, in this world, there are 26 Muslim states and 18 Christian states but there is only one Jewish state.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-baruch-halevi/israel-is-exceptional_b_3068759.html

Go ahead and sneeze at these exceptional accomplishments?

 

Margot, Jews bought most of the land, and overpaid for it.

"From the beginning of World War 1 Arabs were claiming Jews stole Palestinian land and displaced them. However, the majority of the land in this region was owned by the Ottoman Empire (subsequently the British) and absentee landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. During this period 80 percent of the Palestinian Arabs were impoverished peasants, semi-nomads and Bedouins… not wealthy landowners.

The region was severely underpopulated which meant the Jews were able to avoid buying land in areas where Arabs might be displaced, which they did. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy, sandy, and most importantly, without tenants. In 1920, David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellaheen (peasants), whom he viewed as “the most important asset of the native population” he said “under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them”. He advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. “Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement,” Ben-Gurion added, “should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.”

The Jews overpaid for land they purchase
When British MP John Hope Simpson arrived in Palestine in May 1930 to report on Arab-Jewish violence and discovered the Jews were purchasing land at exorbitant rates: “They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay.”

In 1937 the British Government published the Peel Commission which found that Arab complaints about Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that “much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased. . . . there was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land.” Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was “due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population”.The report concluded that the presence of Jews in Palestine, along with the work of the British Administration, had resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living and ample employment opportunities.

It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as they are in useless wailing and weeping

— Transjordan’s King Abdullah, My Memoirs Completed, p88-89

As the violence escalated Arabs continued to sell land to Jews at outrageous prices, usually for tiny tracts of arid land. “In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre.”

 

I’m not sure what your post has to do with mine.

 

By 1948 European Jews had purchased about 6% of the land.

You may want to take time to read the Palestine Papers at the Avalon Project, Yale Library.

 

So, just uninformed feelz. LOL...this is what Democrats vote in.

 

I have. And it did wonders for the region. Why do you think, Arabs are prohibited from selling land to Jews?

 

no, they bought 6% of the land.

thats it

 

Jews have lived in Palestine for 3,000 years.

 

She just needs to stay on point "Freeshit for everyone"

 

That's true and most of that history Israel-Judah was a vassal state.

 

No. No. No. She's a former bartender.

 

Ahhhh the topic here is not everyone here's proclaimed knowledge of the issue but Ocasio-Cortez's admitted lack of knowledge of international affairs when that was her MAJOR in college and she wants to serve in the Congress.

 

Is this the best the Democratic party has to offer?

If it is, then the Democratic party is in a world of hurt. They are scraping the bottom of the trough.

It is absolutely painful watching Ocasio-Cortez stumble through this exchange and then at the end admit that she is "not the expert in geopolitics on this issue."

 

So Ironically hypocritical, trumpers criticizing others for answering a question they know nothing about. It's freaking hilarious actually. What's your priority among our nuclear triad? At least Cortez admitted she didn't have much experience in this area. Nothing wrong with that. It's a little refreshing for someone to admit it even if she did try to blow smoke first. At least she didn't double down on stupid like ahem others.

 

Look at you, criticizing for lack of knowledge. Hypocrite.

 

When we nominated that blithering fat disgusting pig of a man to represent our party we left the door WIDE open for these fringe dems to actually win. I predicted it then and I stand by it now. Trump will set conservatism back decades.

 

shes not a expert on geo politics or a map of countrys like many others are now that havent a clue on the basics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...-country-map-embarrassing-geography-quiz.html

 

your calling Iran, turkey and central asia arabians ?
now i'm not sure who is being insulted the most here the turks and iranians or the arabians
turks probably got more in common with central asia then arabia, atleast they come from there as a people

 

Yeah but the left would rather ignore that, and change the subject.

They are so predictable.

 

Where are all the lefties?

The left bashed Palin for her disastrous interviews and her lack of foreign policy knowledge.

Well? Where are they now?

 

I'm sure the DNC leadership will tell this woman everything she needs to say.
If not for double standards the left would have no standards at all.

 

Oh come on, she is not that bad, she's got the leftist "Israel horrible, Israel hating islamonazis good, innocent, peace-loving victims" meme down pat. Is there really anything else to know about the conflict if you represent the American/ Israel/ West hating progressive mob?

 

Eeeehhh. That was awkward. If your going to be the 'new rising star' politician, get your views sorted out before you do interviews. Or if you don't know, don' try and mangle some answer together that only sounds like you figured it out off the cuff.

 

She's a democrat of course she has no clue of what she's talking about


She has got big teeth though so maybe she can run on that.